DJ Lesson Mobile DJ Mixing Techniques..2

0:00 Two tunes, Artful Dodger and Cheryl Lynn

Alright ladies and gentlemen, two tunes, Artful Dodger and Cheryl Lynn. I'll put the names in the description of course because people always say what tunes are you playing? Right, this is another video in a selection I'm doing on mixing for mobile DJs. Mixing for mobile DJs. First of all, people seem to think that a DJ has to continually beatmatch everything together for hours and hours to get that super, super mix. Well, you don't. If you're a mobile DJ, quite often they'll just chop one from the other and in this tutorial I'm going to show you some chopping. Right, so actually I went shopping earlier on to Morrison's. Okay, so this is the Artful Dodger track. What we've got here is we've got Cheryl Lynn. That's how it starts.

0:57 A lot of mobile DJs will think on the fly

Now, a lot of mobile DJs will think on the fly. It's continual think, think, think. A club DJ on the other hand has, alright yes a club DJ still will think on the fly but of course there is a nice smooth transition quite often when they do mixing. A mobile DJ, when a mobile DJ let's say is playing different genres, different styles all night, they will tend to think, they'll have to think really quickly because sometimes someone will come up and go, oh by the way have you got? And it will be a completely different genre to the tracks you're playing. But because the DJ thinks, do you know what? That will drop really well. They could potentially dig it out and chuck it in but if it's just thrown in at the wrong time, in the wrong time signature, it may not sound very good.

If it's the wrong key, it'll probably sound terrible so there has to be some form of structure, the way the DJ puts it together. So this one here, video number two is about chopping it in. So.

This goes out to all the DJs.

Right, what did I do? This goes out to all the DJs. Bam! Ba-ba-da-bam, ba-ba-da-bam. Now there was, believe it or not, structure in that chop. All I did, I listened to the one track again very quickly, very randomly. I was talking to you, brought the volume up. It shows how quick you have to think. Now the other one, alright, well let's have a listen to Cheryl Lynn because we're bringing Cheryl Lynn, Got To Be Real, in with the Artful Dodger track.

Now again, you have to think outside the box. A lot of people may know that. So, let's try it again.

3:01 Not a perfect mix

Not a perfect mix. It doesn't have to be in perfect, perfect time. It's about the chop, the transition. This is how mobile, not all mobile DJs, but me and others I presume out there as well, will do their transitions. Let's do another one.

Right. We've got a bit of a problem here, actually. Just thinking about the timing.

So simple. So, so simple. Alright, if you want any more information on these then give us a bell, alright? Or well, actually just put a comment and stuff like that. To be real, Cheryl Lynn, Artful Dodger. Classic tracks, practice and enjoy.

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