DJ Phrase Mixing Technique Using CD Pool Club February 2020

0:00 Mistakes, february, driving

If I think about how long I've been doing these videos for, it's just crazy really. It's like about 14 years. I mean some videos are good, some are bad, some are like absolutely pointless, others you think why on earth do you do that and so do I so they get deleted. Some have got big mistakes, some have got little mistakes, very few have got no mistakes but what I'm really pleased about is being able to express myself and Teach and motivate and inspire people to get off the backsides and go and do some stuff. Yes, so let's have a few tunes and let's do a bit of mixing and let's have a laugh and let's just enjoy the experience of playing some tracks and enjoying what happens. Okay, so this one here.

We've got some tunes here from CDPool. Now I'm using the XZ and I have the hard copy here from CDPool but I'm using the downloaded files. I put them through rekordbox. We've got the club series for February 2020. Now this tune here, Just Do It, it's quite simple but this is what I call a driving tune. Not as in driving, driving along, listening to it but... More like it's just, it's got that drive to it. It's got that continual dom, dom, dom, that punch. It's almost as though the producer has thought I want something that just takes you all the way down that way and just gives you some balls. It's great. It's a lovely tune. We're going to bring in Lift Me Up, the club mix. Don't forget all of these tunes can be found online.

2:26 It was completely random

On the new releases from CDPool 2020, February from the club releases. And I will be doing more videos on vinyl mixing as well. I thoroughly enjoyed that set. I did a few days ago, I think it was the 9th of February, birthday to my daughter Nicole. 9th of February, 30. Wow, that's crazy. There were a few mistakes in it but... It was completely random. I mean, it was like, right, I'll just get loads of tracks and throw them together. A couple of very dodgy mixes in there, I have to admit, but that's life. Okay. Try and do a phrase mix here. Right, I'm going to pause them there. A phrase mix. Now, a phrase in a tune is a section of that track. Whether it be 2 bars, short track, 4, still a short track, 8, 16, 24, 32, 64, 128, which is something that you'll probably fall asleep with. But the beginning of this track here, let's have a listen. So 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4. Now this is something that...

4:51 Much better phrase mixing

You would do probably before you start putting a set together so you can get the blocks in place. Right, 8 bars and then we had that lift me up. So I said, I don't know if you saw but while I was doing the transition earlier on I said a hot cue there. Now I am looking at the wave format in Just Do It and I'm reckoning that about there is 8 bars before the break. So I'm going to start this one there. So if you think about 8 bars break, 8 bars lift me up. If the job comes in, it might work. Let's give it a go! Much better! There we go. Much better phrase mixing. The first transition, it was in time, in phrase, but then it's not about just because you've got a phrase here, it'll match in with that one. It's about making sure that the bars in the phrase on both tracks

7:16 After a few transitions, then sort of like wave it down a little bit

Match together. So if one's doing 16, the other one's doing 8, start that one halfway through and then they'll like change at the same place. Makes sense to me. Let's go towards the end of this. Electronic sort of, electronic presence here. Really big, a big track. For the change, like a beginning and end mix. Oh, that's crap. Okay, what I want to do is let's go a little bit further into the track. So there isn't that, you didn't get that, you don't really, obviously you don't really want that. Of course, right time, right place, but maybe with these tracks, that wouldn't have been the right place because these are very big tracks, very bold in your face, so you don't want something big and bold and then go dip, big and bold and dip again. If you're going to have tracks that have got a lot of testosterone to them, keep it high up, keep it up there with the gods, and then maybe...

After a few transitions, then sort of like wave it down a little bit. Okay, this one here just can't get enough. Cold hands. Okay, so let's just come out of that. Okay, we've got Nobody's Fool. I love this sort of vibe, this kind of Chicago house feel with that just uplift. Let's go towards the end of this. Just maybe this track I'm going to bring in now, Release Me, is the sort of tune that would be like... The end of a mix. It's just got that kind of, we're finishing, we're saying goodbye, thank you very much. So let me just try this transition now. I've got towards the end of the break. Boom. There, and I'm going to start this one in over here, release me. So again, this is an experiment. This is about putting blocks together. We know we want to keep in phrase, in time, but so far I don't really know the size of the blocks. So are they the right size? Do they fit together or...

12:52 Are they just slightly off-size?

Are they just slightly off-size? A long introduction, maybe not there. Not there. I'll wait to the next break. Now maybe try here. A definite change in the phrasing here. It's almost like, yeah, we're coming to the end. And this one, as soon as that change started here, that sort of melody started in the next track. This is what we want. Straight out with that one. Now maybe I could have brought that in a little bit more, but I like the introduction here. I like it. It's almost like, thank you very much ladies and gentlemen for listening. Take care, look after yourselves, bugger off and go and enjoy yourself. Thank you very much. Right. Okay, don't forget, you can get all of these tunes if you follow the link in the description to cdpool.com. There are terms and conditions about who can have them. You've got to be a working DJ in and around Europe. But also, if you're going to be a first-time user of CDPool, there's a code inside the description. If you use that code, you get £50.

It's not everything, but check out the terms and conditions. You can always contact CD4 and ask them. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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