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Counting Music

4 courses · 34 lessons · 4 h

Before you can mix you have to hear the music's structure. Bars, beats and phrases, what BPM really means, beat grids and reading a waveform.

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  1. Counting Bars, Beats and Phrases

    Beginner 9 lessons · 41 min

    You cannot mix what you cannot hear the shape of. This is the counting: where the bar starts, what a phrase is, and how to find both by ear rather than by looking at a screen…

  2. How a Track Is Built

    Beginner 9 lessons · 57 min

    Dance records are built to a pattern, and once you can hear the pattern you know what is coming before it arrives. The structure of house, garage, hard house and the rest…

  3. Mixing on the Phrase

    Intermediate 8 lessons · 1 h 23 min

    Counting is useless until you use it to decide when to bring the next record in. This is the difference between a mix that merely lines up and one that sounds deliberate - and it…

  4. Counting the Awkward Genres

    Intermediate 8 lessons · 59 min

    Four-four house is the easy case. Drum and bass moves too fast to count the obvious way, hip hop is rarely at a convenient tempo, and plenty of records simply do not match…

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