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Technique on your terms
Work on beatmatching by ear, EQ transitions, phrasing, or any skill that keeps feeling inconsistent when you practice alone.
Private Coaching · Center City, Philly
The fastest route to booth-ready.
One-on-one, built around your goal — any starting point, any pace. The destination is the same one every Booth student is walking toward: the membership bar, then the room itself. On real gear, in Center City, Philly.
Founding members pay a flat $250 a session — the best private rate we offer. See membership.
$300
for two hours, one-on-one · packs bring it to $270 a session
The full private course is $1,650 — or $1,550 if you decide at your first session.
Already past the fundamentals and want a set syllabus? Pro DJ Perform is the structured course, taught in a pair.
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Who It's For
Any level.
Your pace.
Private coaching meets you exactly where you are — complete beginners included. It's the flexible option when a fixed group schedule or syllabus doesn't fit.
Prefer a group? Pro DJ Fundamentals and Intermediate Entry are great starting points too. DJ'd before and not sure which fits? Take the 60-second quiz.
DJs at any level who want one-on-one time instead of a group course
Complete beginners who prefer private time over a group first class
Self-taught mixers stuck after tutorials who need hands-on correction
Performers preparing for a gig, mix recording, or audition
Group-course students booking a single session to unstick one skill
Founding members at the flat $250 member rate, sharpening specific skills
What You Work On
Bring a problem,
a mix, or a goal.
Every session starts with what you actually need — not a generic syllabus. Whether you're making your first transition or tightening an existing set, we build the two hours around it.
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Set design and performance
Build a tighter arc for your set, practice crowd energy, and get direct feedback on how your mixes actually sound in the room.
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Gear and workflow
Get help with Rekordbox prep, controller-to-CDJ translation, headphone cueing, or building a home practice setup that matches the booth.
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Your specific goal
Bring a mix you want to fix, a transition that keeps slipping, or a creative direction you want help shaping — we build the session around it.
The Booth-Ready Map
Same map.
Your order.
Every Booth student walks the same set of modules. In a group course they come in a fixed order. One-on-one, your instructor picks the route — and you always see how far you are from booth-ready.
Booth-ready means the 5marked modules are confident. That's the bar for membership, and it's the same bar however you got there.
Foundations
What the gear does, where music comes from, and how a DJ actually works.
DJ history & roles
Know what the job is — club, mobile, radio, festival — and which one you're aiming at.
Equipment: mixer, deck, signal flow
Set up, plug in, and troubleshoot a club-standard booth without guessing.
Music sources & files
Find, buy, and organize music at the quality a club system exposes.
Software fluency
Prep a library in Rekordbox or Serato — analysis, cues, tags, USB export.
Rhythm
The counting and the hands. Everything after this depends on it.
Beats, bars & phrasing
Hear the 8 and the 32, and know where a track will let you in or out.
Cueing & nudging
Drop on the one and hold it there by hand.
The Bar
The membership bar. Clear these five and you're booth-ready.
Beatmatching by ear
Membership barMatch two tracks without sync and without staring at the waveform.
EQ & fullness
Membership barTrade lows cleanly and keep a blend full instead of muddy or thin.
Harmonic mixing & the Camelot wheel
Membership barMix in key on purpose, and know when to break the rule.
Loops: slip, in-transition, with EQ
Membership barExtend, rescue, and reshape a section without the mix falling over.
FX: beat & color
Membership barUse echo, filter, and reverb as transitions — not decoration.
Performance
Turning correct mixing into a set someone wants to stand in front of.
Set design & energy
Shape an arc from open to close instead of playing track after track.
Reading a room
Adjust in real time to the people actually in front of you.
Your recorded set
Leave with a recorded set you can send to a promoter or a friend.
Booth
The room you're learning to be part of — taught, not assumed.
Booth: membership, events, the scene
Know what membership is, when members play, and how your local scene works.
Booth-ready
Clear the marked modules and you've met the bar for founding membership — beatmatching by ear, EQ, harmonic mixing, loops, and FX, confident and unassisted. Booth-ready is a milestone on the map, not the end of it.
Beyond the bar · Advanced
Open tier, and growing. Booth-ready is a milestone on the map, not the end of it — advanced modules are bought the same way, with the same packs.
The map keeps growing.
Mix by ear under pressure
Beatmatch and recover with less visual help, on unfamiliar gear.
Transitions & recovery
Phrase-aware blends, clean exits, and fixes nobody in the room notices.
Prep, FX & set flow
Sequence a night, plan energy, and layer FX without losing the mix.
Capstone performance
Play an advanced set under pressure on CDJ-style gear.
Where this goes
Booth-ready
is a door.
Private coaching isn't a set of one-off lessons. It's the quickest way onto the same path everyone else at Booth is on.
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Booth-ready
Clear the bar on the map: beatmatching by ear, EQ, harmonic mixing, loops, FX. However many sessions that takes you.
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Membership
$99/mo founding rate — 5 hours of room time a month, member events, and private sessions at the flat $250 member rate.
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The advanced tier
Point a pack at the advanced modules — four sessions at the pack rate is $1,080 — or take Pro DJ Perform in a pair.
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The scene
Open decks, member events, and the local room you now have the skills to stand in. That's the point of all of it.
Pricing
One session.
Or the whole map.
Every option is the same instruction — packs just commit you further down the same map. The unit is always a two-hour one-on-one session.
Single session
Two hours, one-on-one. A first session, a tune-up between group classes, or a fix before a gig.
$300
$300 a session
3-Pack
Three sessions, three weekly payments of $270. More one-on-one time without committing to the whole course.
$810
$270 a session
5-Pack — the rest of your course
Five sessions, five weekly payments of $270. Standalone, or the continuation after a single session.
$1,350
$270 a session
Full private course
Your first session at $300 plus the 5-Pack. Six sessions, 12 hours — $150 less than six singles at $1,800.
$1,650
$275 a session
Decide at your first session
$1,550
All-in · $250 a session
Your $300 first session plus $1,250 for the rest of your course — five weekly payments of $250. Save $250 by deciding at your first session instead of later.
Founding members
$250
A session, flat
Members get the best private rate we offer, on single sessions too — no pack required. Founding membership is $99/mo. See membership.
- Pack sessions never expire. Book them weekly, monthly, or whenever you get the time.
- A single session's credit applies toward the rest of the course — $1,250 if you decide at your first session, $1,350 any time after.
- Cancel or reschedule up to 48 hours in advance for a full refund or credit.
What's included
Every session.
- 01A fully personalized session built around your level and goals
- 02Two hours, one-on-one with an instructor, on your own schedule
- 03Your place on the Booth-Ready Map, updated every session
- 04Club-standard Pioneer DJ® equipment and studio-grade monitors — all gear provided
- 05Pack sessions never expire — book them at whatever pace you keep
- 06Your session credit applies toward the rest of the course
Where You'll Learn
In person in
Center City, Philly.
We teach at Apex Rehearsal & Musician Services on 9th & Catharine Street in Center City Philadelphia. It's a professional rehearsal studio built for focused, hands-on sessions.
Sessions run on professional Pioneer DJ® club-standard equipment with studio-grade monitors and direct instructor feedback.
Instructors
Working DJs who teach in person.
Liam J
DJ and educator with 7 years experience teaching beginners to mix confidently • Technical Specialist • 11 Years of Club & Festival Experience • Founder of DJ@Penn • From London, UK
Caleb C
DJ and educator with 5 years experience teaching beginners to mix confidently • Club Resident • From Los Angeles, CA
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Any skill level, including complete beginners. It's one-on-one time built entirely around your goals — a flexible alternative to a group first class or the full course if you prefer private instruction.
Every session is two hours, one-on-one, at $300. Packs bring that down: the 3-Pack is $810 ($270 a session) and the 5-Pack is $1,350 ($270 a session). A first session plus the 5-Pack is the full private course — six sessions, 12 hours, $1,650 instead of $1,800 as singles.
$1,550 all-in. Decide at your first session and the rest of your course is $1,250 — five weekly payments of $250 — on top of the $300 you already paid. That's $250 less than deciding later, and the same rate founding members pay.
No. Pack sessions never expire — book them at whatever pace your life allows. If you clear the map faster than expected, the sessions you have left spend on advanced modules instead.
If you already beatmatch and want a set syllabus rather than sessions built around you, Pro DJ Perform is the structured course taught in a pair. If you're newer, Pro DJ Fundamentals builds the fundamentals in a group — from the start, or via Intermediate Entry if you already play a bit. Private is the same map, walked one-on-one at your own pace.
Yes. A single session's credit applies toward the rest of the course — the 5-Pack at $1,250 if you decide at your first session, $1,350 any time after. Packs work toward advanced modules too, at the same pack rate.
All sessions are in-person at our studio location in Center City, Philly. Hands-on feedback on real club gear is the point.
No. All studio gear is provided. If you want help translating what you learn to home practice, we can recommend options based on your setup and budget.
A flat $250 a session — the best private rate we offer, single sessions included, with no pack required. Founding membership is $99/mo and includes 5 hours of room time a month plus member events.
You can cancel or reschedule up to 48 hours in advance for a full refund or credit.
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