Beginning and End DJ Mix Made Easy Club CD Pool May 2021

0:01 Beginning and end mixes

Alright, so what can I say? Beginning and end mixes. Why are beginning and end mixes palatable, pleasurable? It's because you can't really hear any melody or bassline at the beginning or the end of a track. Not all of them, some of them. I don't know the exact percentage, but okay. If we listen to this, okay? So just have a listen to the beginning. This is entitled Stronger. Now I think it was originally Bomb The Bass, a track entitled Beat This in the late 80s, that was the first track that had an actual beat in melody, in key with the bass line. Now a lot of modern day tracks are doing that as well. Where we've always got to be careful is that we do not clash those melodies. And that will happen if you mix melodies together that aren't in key or the keys don't work well with each other. On the other hand, you can sort of get away with it if you use the beginning and the end of a track or should I say tracks.

If there isn't a melody or a bass line there, so you can sort of get away with it. And again, I could go as deep as you wanted to with something like this. A lot of it is about the vibe and the feel, but when you just listen to something like this, okay, there isn't much melody going on. And also if you listen to something like this, there's not much melody going on, even though there is a definite kick. So let's go to the end of this track entitled Stronger and these are the club releases from May 2021. So I'm going to go towards the end.

2:40 Seems to have got bassline in the background

Seems to have got bassline in the background. Still there. Got to get away with something like that. Okay, this one here is Can't Stop Missing You. So I'm going to go random. Okay, this is how random it's going to be. I can't see what I'm doing there. I'm going to sort of go there. Okay. Where are we? Stronger. Oh, okay. There and load that track. Okay, here we go. Harmony Todd Edwards.

I'm going to cue that one up first. Let's listen to the beginning of this. Yeah, alright. Again, we've just got a beat. And then we've got some form of key there. There's a definite sort of melody. When I say melody, we can hear a little bit of vocals there. So let's go to the end of Can't Stop Missing You. Nice bassline with this. And don't forget, if you want any info on these releases, check out the link in the description. Also, what I have got there is, yeah, I've got it. It's a way in which you can donate to the Ellaskins cause. So if you like what I do and it's helping you. Okay, so we still got a bass line there. Still got a bass line there. Now there's a little bit of a melody in the background there. Okay, what would we do here? Let's go back a bit. Now, I'm not using rekordbox here, so maybe not there.

5:16 Wait till the next phrase

Wait till the next phrase. Alright, so I've got that loop. Okay, so let's just come out of that. Let's go back a bit. Oh, no, I didn't want to do that, did I? I did not want to do that. So we go forward again. Let's go sort of about here. Alright, let's get this one ready. Okay, so what I'm going to do now is get that loop going. Yeah, I better get the loop. Oh dear, it won't get any better, you know. There you go. Okay, so I've got this one ready. Up the loop now anyway. Take that one out. Okay, this is the only downside to if you are mixing out of key. You have to be so careful about that transition with the two sounds and I would say one great rule of thumb here is if you do have a sound on the one side and a sound on the other side

Try and make a bit of a gap in the middle with just a beat. So the beat, it's, okay, the analogy, it's like listening to, let's say, any radio station out there that have an advert or a jingle in between the two tracks. Quite often they do that because the track that's leaving, let's say, or that's finishing is a different melody to the one coming in. So instead of like having one fade out and the other one fade in, they fit something in the middle, a bit of a jingle to get the listener away from the vibe and energy and key of that one so it's a complete change into the next one. This is why a lot of say mobile DJs who let's say use the microphone will use the microphone quite often in between tracks so like you talk

8:27 He probably doesn't talk like that, he probably talks more like this

People forget about that song or the energy of that song, boom, you come in with the next one. OK, so I'm going to pause that because I normally get hassle with YouTube playing Todd Edwards, not because Todd Edwards is crap, it's just probably because he's very good music and maybe Mr Todd Edwards has gone, anyone playing my music, give me a good kick up the arse for you, please. Thank you very much. He probably doesn't talk like that, he probably talks more like this. Hey excuse me, Mr Todd Edwards here, I'd like you to give someone a rather large boot up the butt cheeks please if they're playing my music. Maybe he doesn't even speak like that, but he speaks more like this. Hello, my name's Mr Todd Edwards and I'd like you to give him a good old kiss up the ass, thank you very much, if they play my tunes, jolly good cheer, thank you! No, haven't taken anything today guys.

Do disappoint you. Right, so let's have a look and let's try something else. Okay, so, My House. Okay, got another loop there. So, go towards the end of this. Now what we've got here is we have the track itself finishing with the melody. So how do we get away from not having two melodies stick together? Well, sort of the opposite now. I've got a loop on this side, I've got a loop on the... The beginning of the track. So all I'm going to do, I'm going to wait for this to fade out, but bring the beginning of this track, the loop in before that track ends. So that track ends, the loop's still playing. Maybe let it play once or twice, then come out the loop. That's the little gap I wanted. Then this track starts. So let's do just that. Cross fingers, I don't know if it works. Maybe bring it there because that's a new phrase.

10:16 As well anyway by the sounds

Even, as soon as that one finishes, come out of the loop. Okay, My House, Josh Davids. That might have actually worked with the last one as well anyway by the sounds of it. Okay, alright, let's do one more. All I can promise you is I'm just seriously just, this wasn't sort of like designed like five hours later and took me two days thinking how am I going to do this video? No, it was like, I've got an idea. Let's do it! Right, okay, so let's just pause that there. Okay, now again, if we listen to the beginning of this one, believe it or not, even though that sounds quite minimal, we do have a sort of almost in between a bass line and a melody. It's almost like a melody line. A melody line. No, actually I like that. Do you like the melody? Oh, very good. Do you like the bass line? Yeah.

13:28 Some kind of energy flow

What's the middle bit? It's a melody line. I've just invented a new word, the melody line. There it is. Okay, so again what we need to do maybe is listen to my house and hope that the end of this track does indeed have no melody or bassline, it's just a beat. So let's go towards the end of this. Just what we wanted. Now I hope you're getting the idea here. Now this is a great way of you being able to play the tracks you like And not have to worry about, oh I need to design this kind of set. Now, this kind of mixing, I would not recommend if you've got a whole dance floor in front of you and you want to start to generate... Some kind of energy flow. These transitions are not going to help. It's not going to happen with a nice energy flow on the dance floor. On the other hand, if you've got a couple of mates around and you've got some narcotics in there and you want to have a bit of fun, then just... This is what you do. Well, no, this isn't actually what... No, shh, shh, shh. This isn't what you do. This is just a couple of... Say I said that. Thank you. In my head. OK, let's do one more.

This is the GAR remix. Don't forget, all of these can be found club... Where are we now? We are definitely not 1997. No, this is 2021 and we're in May, okay? Let's have a look. I like the look of that one. Just going to chuck this one on. Reason Test Press Remix. Already I'm liking the fact it's just got that uplift, and that uplift is actually the speed of the track.

1.35 BPM. I tell you what, the weather today has been wacky. Earlier on it was absolutely hammering it down with hail and I'm going to show you now. I'm just going to reduce the brightness because otherwise it's going to look terrible. I don't know if you can see out there but check that out. Look at that roof. I mean, it was hail, my god! Anyway, alright, back to this. Okay, sounds like the Minions. Okay, once again, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. And by the way, if you're interested in CDPool and you're going to be a first-time user, of course you've got to be a DJ. Also, you have to be in and around the European Union. If you can use it for the first time, terms and conditions apply. In the description of this video there is a code. If you use that, you get, I still believe, two months off your first... Sorry, 50% off your...

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