Dj help, mix two toons , again & again & again & again!!

0:00 Reason being is simply this

Alright folks, in this video what we're going to be doing is just concentrating on one mix. Reason being is simply this. Now when you're in your bedroom and you're putting your set together, you know, you're concentrating more so on actually the entire set. Now what I want you to do here is pick two of your favourite records. Right, get those two records. Now I used to do this years ago because it helped me to... It basically taught me how to mix, alright, because what I would do... Thank you for watching. But move the pitch again slightly and start again. Bring it up slightly and start again. Now you're actually doing two things here. The one is you're teaching yourself how to beatmatch. The other one is you're getting used to those two tunes mixing in to each other. You're actually listening while you're learning. It's all about practice and of course enjoying, alright? Now then, I'm going to do the same sort of thing so I'll show you what I mean. Alright, I've got one CD in here on the CD player.

And it's from this guy that we're giving away next week, so hold tight on that. It's from disc one, it's a three-disc compilation. It's track four, Teddy Douglas presents those guys. It's called I Walk Alone, alright? So let's have a listen to that track first. Here we go. Now, this particular cut is quite new, OK? This one, the one we're going to be mixing in, and you'll see the pitch control working here, is a 12-inch single. It's quite old. Right, that's that one. Now, what we're going to be mixing in... Excuse me, is... Underground Goodies Volume 5 is by Kashmir and it's entitled Ri-A-Do-Da-Da-Da. Honest, right, and this is what this sounds like. And it jumps, do apologise. Right, now then what we'll do is we'll start this one off again but I'm going to change the pitch control. You'll actually hear the sound, the tone of the actual CD decrease so you'll be able to tell that I'm bringing the pitch down. Here we go.

3:02 Increase speed, certain pitch, time

Okay, I'll start this one up and I'll mix this one in and then we'll do the same thing again but next time I'll increase the speed of the first one, okay? If I do this for long enough, I'm practicing all the time. Alright, now, again, you know, we haven't got much time in these videos but the idea there is that the actual CD track was at a certain pitch and I had to mix this one in a certain pitch so I'm getting used to mixing the two songs together but... Like I said earlier, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to increase the speed and do the same thing over again. Now again this may sound very monotonous but what you're actually doing instead of like playing one song, mixing another one and then going into a third, fourth, fifth by utilising just two songs for say a day, you're actually practising even more. It's the equivalent, I mean I play the drums and when I teach people drums...

4:48 There'll come a point at which you just won't think about it

I say to them, alright, what you need to do is just play that beat continually for 10 minutes until it's almost laborious, until you're bored of it. But what will happen is the more you actually play that particular beat... There'll come a point at which you just won't think about it. It's just like you're just playing it and all of a sudden you realise that you can start thinking about other things instead of thinking about the beat. The same thing really applies here. If you concentrate just on two records and mix them over and over and over and over and over again, changing the pitch continually, then eventually it will become second nature. So this time we'll speed it up and we'll do exactly the same thing again. Here we go. Start it up.

Bit of a jump there, I knocked it. But hopefully you've got the right idea there. Basically, I mean I could waffle for ages, but two songs, change the pitch controls and just continually play with those two songs, mess around with them, have fun. Maybe it does get boring, but eventually when it starts getting boring and you're continually mixing those beats in perfectly, you've almost done it, alright? That's what it's all about. Thank you for watching, you practice and enjoy.

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