They can’t even talk — but these hipster babies will be able to drop ill beats and mix funky tracks.
At DJ school for rugrats, Brooklyn composer and local DJ Natalie Elizabeth Weiss aims to teach kids the basics for creating and mixing electronic music.
“The difference between listening to Mozart and listening to electronic music is that you can’t pick up a cello when you’re 3 months old but you can push play,” said Weiss, 31.
For $200, parents can enroll their diaper-clad DJs, from newborns to age 3, in her eight-week course beginning Sept. 18 at a Crown Heights thrift store and performance venue Cool Pony.
Weiss will show them how to mix and match tracks by turning knobs and pushing buttons on what’s known as a MIDI trigger connected to a laptop, she said.
Weiss said the point is to get kids hooked on the genre while their brains are still developing — not to be hip.
“The people who are interested are not interested in coolness,” she said. “They say, ‘my baby loves music and they are already playing with my laptop.’ ”
Brooklyn teacher Rebecca, 32, said her 2-year-old son Alex is already using music-making apps on her iPad. So she decided to sign him up for Weiss’ class.
“I’m not training him for a career in music,” she said. “It’s just something for him to do with other kids in the neighborhood.”
Jessica Childs, co-owner of an all-natural tea company called Kombucha in Brooklyn, said her 2-year-old son Rider has already started working with Weiss, who sometimes babysits him.
“It’s a wonderful tool for children to use because it doesn’t require fine motor skill as opposed to playing the flute,” said Childs, 36. “He can’t really draw a perfect circle but he can mix some slicing beats together.”