Video examples included. You've got your decks and mixer. You've been practicing your beat matching, getting the tempos synced. And you're working on the push, the physical act of starting the record on beat.
Dance music is extremely predictable.
It's all laid out in repetitive patterns, with build-ups and break downs occurring pretty much when you expect. This makes your job easy, because you know when to mix in the next record. However, I'm about to make it even easier for you by teaching you how to count measures. There are four measures in a bar. When mixing, you not only want to line up the beats, you want to make sure those beats fall in the same place in the measure, namely the one.