DJ Mixing Tutorial on Getting the Next Track in on the One in Perfect Time

0:00 What are you doing August 2018?

Alright, so what are you doing August 2018? If you're not doing much, check out the link in the description because there is a rather nice event happening East North Castle which is Gloucester area, United Kingdom 2018. Check it out, there is a dance tent. I'm organising that along with another small sort of dance area known as the Secret Wooded Disco. We have the likes of Express 2, Danny Rampling, Nancy Noise, a few other DJs there, Big Dance Tent and also the Secret Wooded Disco which is let's say it's secret, it's wooded but we don't play disco. It's just called the Secret Wooded Disco. Anyway, back to the job at hand. Okay, so we've got a couple of tracks here and what I'm going to do is show you how you can snap a track straight in into the music.

I'm going to show you how to do that. I'm going to show you how to get the time in beat on the one without having to slowly mix it in or, you know, spend time trying to get it in beat and then slowly bringing it in when you wanted to bring it in at the count of one instead of maybe one and a half or two, three, four and so on. Okay, track on the right hand side is a track entitled Love Always Wins and let's just do that. Let's go to the beginning of the track. Okay, so give you an idea of the track. So that's on the right hand side. On the left hand side, we have a track entitled So Special which is the original mix. Just set hot cue there so let's go forward a bit so you get a nice idea of the tracks.

2:13 This is another way of how you can form this kind of mix

Okay, so in this track here, the So Special, we've got a nice drop. Have a listen. There. Now what should be apparent here as well is you've got like a little kind of a break before the drop comes in. And that can put a lot of people off as where to start it, you know, start the next one. Now again, there's many ways of doing this. This is one demonstration so this is not how it should be done. This is another way of how you can form this kind of mix. Okay, so all I've done, I have got a loop. One, two. It's a two bar loop. Very simple. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three. That's all it is. Two bar loop of the beginning of the track. So very quickly explanation. What I'm going to do is I am going to play that two bar loop before the drop.

I'm gonna play that over my headphones on the right hand side and then as soon as the drop comes in, of course bring the volume straight up so we have the loop playing but very important what you need to do is before the loop finishes and starts the process of repeating the loop again, you need to come out of that loop. If you don't do that then you will be depending on how long you leave that loop on, you could be two bars out, four and so on and so on. So of course it's very important to make sure you come out of that loop inside the loop that you've made before the loop finishes and starts at the beginning again. It's confusing but if you rewind it, it's quite logical. Right so let's go to about there.

4:36 Bring it down and straight in

So all I'm going to do now is just make sure when I bring this loop in, I don't bring it in on the three or you know the one, well actually I could bring it in the one but I also have to make sure I bring it in at the correct time of the other track. So let's just start there but let's go back a little bit more so you can hear the loop play as well. Okay this is what I'm listening to on my headphones, so that's what I've got on my headphones. Okay bring it down and straight in. Okay so let's find another tune, drop something in. Okay I'm going to drop the next track in, a track entitled Got To You, the dub mix. Very simple transition, use a filter, got it, the dub mix. All these tunes by the way can be found on CDPool,

Tune 2018. Okay coming in now, If You're Over Me, Sebastian Perez dub Years and Years. Okay so what I'm doing here now, there are no sort of transitions where you're overlapping two tunes, it's just one dropping straight into the other. Okay we had an I Got Bang straight in, not the best of transitions but it's still being keyed, it still melodically sounds okay. Right and we also went from 125.6 to 128.4 BPM. Now this kind of transition you could not do a proper mix, you could not mix those two tracks over each other because they would not beat match, it would sound absolutely terrible. But of course chopping one to the other, you're not mixing them, you're literally going for 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4 which is fine, it works.

Okay let's choose one more.

8:25 You'll see what I mean

Okay um... Okay I'm going to put Martin Garrix and the Looper's track on, it's track entitled Game Over but I wouldn't normally do this kind of transition because you've got a very happy kind of uplifting tune into something that's a bit like You know if these were dogs, this would be a nice little fluffy puppy and this would be a Rockweiler just about to bite your head off. You'll see what I mean. Yep there's your Rockweiler. You know if you did that kind of transition in a nightclub people would be happily dancing away around their handbags and all of a sudden they just fall flat on their arse going What the hell did you do? Okay so... Play one more actually, let's see what we've got. Better transition here now.

Now this time I'm going to drop the next one in, go back, drop, go back, so on. So we're going to flick from one to the other.

Similar kind of feel! Similar energy! Similar oomph in your face! Okay, this one here Dr. Shiver and Soulja Jam track entitled Blah Blah Blah The original mix. Don't forget you can get info on all these tunes follow the link in the description to cdpool.com Also follow the link to the information on the Lake Fest Festival happening August this year, August East Norcastle 2018 I'm going to be there. Dance tent, big time alright! So if you want to take part, if you want to come along and have a bit of fun and have a laugh, have a drink with me then see you there. Practice and enjoy! Nice one!

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