Beat Matching Tutorial at Get in the Mix by ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 How by moving the pitch control

Alright ladies and gentlemen, we're getting a mix HQ and here's a tutorial on beatmatching. This one here what we're going to do is I'm gonna show you how by moving the pitch control on one deck you can get beats in perfect time so the emphasis is to watch the pitch here watch how I move it there's no need to look at the other deck just concentrate on this one the two tracks I'm using on the left hand side is Hardwell track entitled Three Train And on this side here is Josh Butler, a track entitled Got A Feeling. So we'll press play on the hardware. Put this pitch anywhere. Main thing as well is counting. So I'm going to bring this track in here with Josh Butler on the count of one. Now we can hear that's a complete train wreck. It's all over the place. Now to the trained ear, if I move the pitch slower or faster, I'd be able to tell

DJ tutorial by Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. Really, the professional DJ is about using your ears. And if you want to become a professional DJ, it's better not to continually look at the BPM or use sync function because you could be in a position in the future where you haven't got the readout and you haven't got the sync. So if you do rely heavily on the sync feature and you go to a club where you haven't got it, you could be stuffed. So let's press play again. Josh Butler, here we go.

2:08 Straight away that's even more right than it was to begin with

Okay, straight away that's even more right than it was to begin with. So I don't put it back to the first position. I need to then move it faster. If I put it back to the first position we'd be back to square one. So let's just move that slightly faster and off we go again. Two, three, four. One, two, three, four. It's still off. This time we're going to carry on letting the track play. Move the pitch up. Have a listen. Slightly less out than before. Faster again. Slightly off.

4:02 We're almost there perfectly in time

We're close. And I've got on the readout on the Josh Butler, I've got 127.7 and on the Hardwell I've got 127 point well. It's flicking from 127.7 to 127.8. I wasn't looking at the readout, I was just using my ears. I've trained them pretty... You know, not too bad over the years. So we're almost there perfectly in time. Now again, these tracks here haven't been quantized, they haven't gone through rekordbox, so I would always need to make sure that I'm listening as well as looking. And to be quite honest, listening is the key factor here. If you look too much, you're getting... you're almost concentrating too much on the software doing the job. The software, remember... is only software. Your brain is far more powerful, so you need to concentrate yourself on making sure that the timing, the beats always match perfectly. So let's just press play on both tracks. Here we go.

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