ITunes Match not a Dance Teacher's friend... yet

Hello. I am a professional Dance Instructor and immediately fell in love with the potential of an iPad in teaching dance. Video, music, and note taking are very useful in my field. So I went from one iPad to two iPads and two iPhones to really use this potential. I also added a nifty little program called DJAY to help speed or slow music as well as cut music for student and professional needs.
All was basically wonderful until I fell for iTunes Match. I really initially liked the idea to store my music on the iCloud so I could utilize my large dance music library on all my devices depending on the need. However, I have been regreting this ever since. Here are my reasons why.
1. There is absolutely no control in what music is available in the Cloud. Most of my music will not be on iTunes because it is ballroom and Latin dance specific. However, when I open an album on my iPad that has been uploaded to the cloud, presumably, it is not accessible for some reason. I am disappointed by how many times I have not had a song available to play because of this foolishness, on a lesson.
2. I have lost the ability to download a specific song to make accessible to programs like DJAY to slow down or edit. Instead I have to download an entire album, or playlist or whatever. This uses space that I was trying to keep available using iTunes Match to begin. Even then, I went ahead and downloaded a much larger group of songs than I wanted and, surprise, it hasn't downloaded yet. This was twelve hours ago.
This got worse with iTunes 11. Essentially, as far as music is concerned, these two factors have made my iPads/iPhones useless for what I do. Still, I hold out hope that this isn't hopeless.
I sincerely could use some advice and workarounds that could assist these problems, and Apple to give us a little more control over our music libraries.
-Angel

Hi,
You may wish to have a look at this thread
https://discussions.apple.com/message/26102000#26102000
Jim

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thank you so much. Thank you for your quick reply, sorry I did not respond sooner, but I wanted to make sure it worked before replying, hence I had to wait for iTunes Match to do its thing.
You are are a genius Jim, so a big thank you.
So in a nutshell for all, Jim's solution works for those who have gone over their 25,000 limit by mistake, and are unable to update match, you can with Jim's solution, delete stuff in the iTunes Match cloud and in effect have your original iTunes Match library as you want it.
Thank you Jim
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