DJ Lesson on Using the Loop Function Like a Drum Machine BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 Video tutorial on the loop function of the CDJ-2000 Nexus

Alright ladies and gentlemen, video tutorial on the loop function of the CDJ-2000 Nexus. More importantly it's a way of using the loop function to the next level. In this video I'm using Scrum Fizzer, a track entitled Kick It, it's the Marshall F remix. Tune, here it is. Turn it up a little bit. Okay so what I'm going to do is just form a loop first of all.

1:31 I'm just going to give a demonstration first

If you're not familiar with what I did there, then go and check out other videos. That isn't what the video is about. The video is about now we can see we have eighth quarter half one two four eight and sixteen eighth is an eighth of a beat quarter is a quarter of a beat one over two is half a beat one beat two beats one bar two bars and four bars all right pretty straightforward actually press play if i press the eighth we get that sound quarter That's what this video is not about. What this video is about is using this and taking it to the next level. I'm just going to give a demonstration first. Okay, a couple of mistakes there but never mind. So what was happening? What was actually going on?

3:49 What we're doing, we're not using the loops as loops

Well, first and foremost, when you press one of or just below one of the icons there, you will get that amount of the loop. So for example, one beat, half a beat, quarter. Now, here's the deal. Once you press that, you will carry on getting that amount of the loop. On the needle search. So, what was I doing earlier on? Now, I was imagining, I was picturing, I was counting in my mind 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. So, I wasn't just letting these sections of the loop or the amounts of the loop do their thing. I was using the loops to my ability, taking it to the next level. In other words... Not just saying we're just going to do one beat on one, and two beats on two, and a bar on four, and two bars on eight, and four bars on sixteen. I'm going to use a tiny bit of each beat, or each section, each area should I say. So what we're doing, we're not using the loops as loops. We're using the loops almost like you would be using a drum machine. Tapping it.

So again, one very important factor, very important. If you're going to do something like that... Make sure the last one you hit is not half, quarter or eighth because if you go... You don't want that. Or maybe you don't want it at that specific time. Maybe you want it later on, for example like this. So, very simple. Use that... Thank you for watching.

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