DJ Mixing Lesson on House to Breakbeat

0:00 Got some new releases for you from CDpool

Right guys, got some new releases for you from CDpool. We have the December releases for 2016. On my left we have the club track disc one, track number seven. On my right we have track number one from disc number two. So what we're going to do here is a transition where we take a house track and we mix in a kind of a breakbeat sort of tune. But if I put the pitches to the centre point, if I just press tempo reset so they'll be exactly at the BPM they should be, 124, 135. Now that's not going to work. That will not work in a million years. It would sound absolutely terrible. So how do we get a good mix? Now again, I've said many times before, if you have two tracks and they sound as though they work well together, you could probably mix them a million different ways.

So this is a good mix. This is only one way out of a million. Probably yes, a million because when you take it, you know, when you think about maybe turning the bass down quickly or then slowly or then in between quick and slow or maybe turning it all the way down or maybe turning it three quarters of the way down or halfway down or a little bit, you know, you get into so many different ways how you can make that mix. You probably would get to a million. Okay, so first of all, let's have a listen. Track number seven from disc number one. Don't forget, check out the link in the description to CD Pool and happy Christmas. By the way as well, don't forget as well, I do give DJ lessons through Skype. So if you are interested, give me a shout. There will be an email in the description of this video. Okay, so you get a general idea there. I make a better take off tempo reset and let's have a listen to Sigma.

2:48 Three four, loop, four three

Okay, so we can hear straight away. This thing I'm going to do is make sure that the Sigma tracks on the count of 1123 which it does so we're good there now what I'm going to do here is I am going to form a loop on two play and I'm going to speed that loop up and then bring in Sigma sounds very straightforward. It's sort of is but then you still have to do a little bit of work. So first thing of course, is We're going to do this. need to find a good position a good point in the one track to form the loop first of all so now as well I don't have these through record box so I'm going to be using the workings of the Nexus Mark 1 and hopefully it will loop the track relatively well for me it's not maybe it's not gonna be perfectly

Quantized but I'm sure it'll do its utmost so alright I'm gonna listen now to Sigma yeah now that is a perfect time they match musically have a listen you see this is the key quite often it's the music that matters okay so I'm going to go back and at the end of this break I'm gonna bring in a four bar loop there there it is there's my four bar loop okay what I'm going to do as well I'm gonna put that into a hot cube I may be slightly off there but I don't think it matters because I think the software inside the CD player has rectified the loop by saying hold on a little bit you're a little bit too soon so we're gonna you know take off a little bit at the end of that loop to make sure it's perfect let's have a listen to it again digging

5:09 Which isn't really advisable is slow

On maybe on three four one two three four one two three four two yeah that's pretty good okay so what are we doing what's going to happen now again this track is going at 124 135 so because I have formed a loop and I put that loop in a hot cue I can so long as I'm in phrase in time and so it sounds musically compatible I could probably hit that hot cue at any point which means that I could indeed let that track pretty much play all the way to the end and when I'm good to go press the hot cue and then bring Sigma in now this is what you will need to do you will need to increase the speed of the track with the loop now there are actually three things you can do here firstly you can just if you want to increase in increase increase the

Speed of the track with the loop to the same speed as the one that you're bringing in the second one which isn't really advisable is slow down the Sigma track here which is of course a lot faster to the same speed as the loop but we don't really want to do that because we want to increase the vibe and the energy the third one which you know can be done is a lot better definitely than the second not as good as the first is while the loops playing slowly reduce the speed to sorry I beg your pardon increase the speed a little bit of the two-play track to say you know if you're going to put it in the same speed you're going to have to do it a little bit slower and then slow down the Sigma track here and then slow down the Sigma track to the same speed

128 129 and then slow Sigma down to the same speed 128 129 I would prefer to keep the Sigma speed as it was originally so what I'm going to do practice what I preach we're going to go towards the end of the track here and then I'm going to bring my loop in slowly increase the speed on the one on the left side and then smooth it down to that next note okay all about the phrasing I hope that's been a help there will be another video on the new releases Club Styli from CD pool but this is really a bit of a demonstration stroke tutorial practice and enjoy thank you very much

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