DJ Lesson on Mixing Bhangra Tutorial 1 BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 Little bit of, I suppose you

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're at Getting a Mix HQ, and this is video number one on learning how to mix Bangra music. Now, first of all, I'm just going to show you a little bit of, I suppose you could call it an effect. Have a listen to this. Listen to that first sound. Again, this is thinking outside the box. Even before we go into the tutorial, have a listen and watch. I'm going to move the pitch while I'm hitting the cue.

Let's go to wide. All right, all I was doing there, hitting the cue, I took off the master tempo, went to wide, so plus or minus 100. Moved the pitch up and down, a little bit of an effect. Anyway, that's by the by. Video number one, we're going to look at a Bangra track. We're going to break it down. We're going to count the bars, phrases, etc. I'm not going to embarrass myself by trying to name the title or artist. You can check that out in the description. So here we go.

1:14 Four, one, two, three, four, one

Four, one, two, three, four, one. Two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, right now. Don't know if you noticed that, but all of a sudden the timing seemed to go completely off. It wasn't my counting is because the track did not. It wasn't in time with counting bars. This is where you have to be very careful with certain tracks and Bangra tracks. So there's no point starting a mix. Let's say the count of one at a certain point, finding then only later on while you're counting that all of a sudden you're in the wrong time signature. So it's about finding the right point in the track to start the mix. So let's have a listen again. Also, at the beginning of this track, we had completely different BPM.

So let's listen to the beginning of the track again. Let's go back.

3:55 One, two, three, four

One, two, three, four. One, two, three. Four, one, two, three, four, one, two. Now to me that sounded as though it was slightly faster. I could be wrong there, but it did sound a little bit slower. I'm going to start counting again from the exact point where I started to count at the beginning of the video. But then I'm going to stop and show you at the point where the timing goes completely off and we need to start counting at a different point during the track. You'll see what I mean. One, one, one, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, two, three, four, one. Now there, listen. Now we can actually start counting again here from the count of one. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four.

One, two, three. Four, one, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four. All right, video number one is simply this. With Bangra, when you're counting, you don't follow set rules. Anything can happen. This is what makes Bangra a lot more exciting. This is where you have to listen to the track and find points during the track where you do have to restart counting bars. You don't just start from one. The beginning of the track and finish, like normal EDM music where you have structure, where you have 8, 16, 32, you have to listen to this. It's a lot more difficult to find the places to bring tracks in and take tracks out. So if anything, video number one is about this. Listen to the track. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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