Week 1 of 8 · Software & 2-channel mixing

Your DJ course starts here.

Short drills for your ears, hands and vocabulary. Climb from House at 124 BPM to Hi-Tech at 185.

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Rank
Bedroom DJ
1,500 XP to Crate Digger
House124 bpm · 1× xp
Technounlocks at 3,000 xp
Psytranceunlocks at 9,000 xp
Hi-Techunlocks at 20,000 xp
Practice decksTwo real decks with tempo, EQ, filter and crossfader.Your musicImport your own tracks or stream free ones from Audius.Gear LabEvery knob on Traktor, a CDJ-3000 and a DJM mixer.

Wear headphones. Phone speakers can't reproduce the kick and bass these drills depend on.

about homeskool

homeskool is an agentic learning platform for DJs. It teaches through short, interactive drills on real audio: feel the downbeat, beatmatch by ear, hear EQ and filter moves, phrase your mixes and build sets, across house, techno, psytrance and hi-tech.

An 8-week course ties the drills together, two practice decks let you mix your own tracks, and on Pro an AI practice coach reads your scores and plans your next five days. Everything runs in the browser, works offline as an app, and syncs when you sign in.

Each drill trains one skill a working DJ needs, with instant feedback and a score you can beat: hear whether a kick is rushing or dragging, ride the tempo fader until two tracks lock, count a 32-bar phrase without looking, name the EQ band that just dropped out, or spot an echo against a flanger. Scores from signed-in rounds are verified on the server, so the weekly leaderboards stay honest.

What you'll practise

  • Rhythm & time: Feel the Time, Downbeat Tapper, BPM Math.
  • Beatmatching: Sync Check, Tempo Match, Tap Tempo.
  • Phrasing: Drop Timing, Phrase In.
  • Mixing & EQ: EQ Detective, Filter Sweep, Gain Match, Bass Clash.
  • FX & loops: Loop Lab, FX Spotter.
  • Sets & keys: Genre ID, Camelot Keys, Set Builder.
  • Gear & words: Gear Lab, Vocab Blitz.

Free covers the daily drill and Week 1; Pro opens the rest.