DJ Lesson, Not All House Starts at the Count of One in a Bar

0:01 Another demonstration stroke tutorial

Alright ladies and gentlemen, another demonstration stroke tutorial. First of all the tracks I'm using are from the classic beat series from CDPool. I've got set number 1, volume 22, I've got track number 9 on this side which is MK featuring Alana, a track entitled Burning. It's the MK extended mix, Union City from 1992. On this side I have from set number 1, CD number 26, again track number 9 which is very good producer stroke DJ Mr Todd Terry presents sound design, Bounce to the Beat remix. It's on Hard Times, it's from 1995. Now we're going to do a bit of a mix but mainly this particular tutorial is showing you how not all tracks start on the count of one. So first of all I'll give you a demonstration. Let me just close that, you don't want to see what's inside there, a couple of dead bodies.

1:54 Let's imagine we've got this track playing

Right, okay I've just set a point on this particular, well in fact let's listen to the beginning, 3, so you can hear if I start counting, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on starts at the count of one. Listen to the Todd Terry, if I start counting one on the first beat this is what happens. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, it's completely off. So the Todd Terry Strack, the Todd Terry Strack track, the counting should start as follows. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. A couple of things we could do is we could find the first beat like so, imagine we're doing this on our headphones, bring it in like this. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. But the better idea or yeah the better way of bringing this in is to actually utilise the first couple of beats to bring it in for you to bring it into the mix so like that.

So let's imagine we've got this track playing. Bang! Okay so once again if we have a listen. 1, 2, 3, 4. There's many different ways of bringing this in. Believe me. It is such a simple, simple mix but even a simple mix you can mix it in thousands and thousands of different ways. So just put the camera like that so you can see the play, pause, cue etc. 1, 2, 3, 4. So bring this back. Put that over there. Listen to that. Or how about this? Volume down. What I did there, I started it just before the count of one right time signature and then put the volume up on the count of one. I'll do that again. 2, 3, 4. This is where you can have so much fun. Just up and down with the, the up faders or crossfades. Again it's about experimentation.

Practice and enjoy. Thank you. See you guys later. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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