DJ’ing triangle of skills
This concept has been knocking around in my head for about 10 years. I don’t know why it took me so long to make a graphic for it.
Basically, the triangle of skills represents the three things you need to be doing if you want to be DJing properly.
* Beatmatching : if you’re not on beat, you’re going to drive everyone nuts with your trainwreck.
* Timing : If you come in at the wrong point of the outgoing song, even if on beat, it’s going to structurally sound weird.
* Selection : knowing what songs go together is definitely an equally important skill as the other two. Creating a flow of tracks that mesh together well is critical.
If you fall down on any one of these three skills, you fall down as a DJ.
This doesn’t even pertain to any particular style of music. Try it against your favorite style of music: Hip hop, drum and bass, house, techno, minimal, Reggae, dub, rocksteady, dancehall, or any of the other subgenres that have sprung from these main branches…
And I’m certainly no perfect DJ. I’m far from it. I just have an appreciation for people who rock all three skills at once. 
