DJ Tutorial. Acapela's are not always in time, lets see!

0:01 How acapellas can change in many

Believe it or not, it's a hat. Alright guys, in the last video I did, I used an acapella from a group called Stetsasonic, a track entitled All That Jazz. What I want to do is show you how acapellas can change in many ways, or how you can make them change in many ways for timing purposes. And also very important, an acapella doesn't necessarily come in On the count of one, it can come in at any time. Now, here we go. Imagine this is time. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, two. Where's the three? Oi! Where's my three? Never mind. Right. One, two, three... Sorry, I've got cables everywhere because the screen's broken on the... Here's how it started. This acapella does not start on the count of one. What I'm going to do is take a picture.

2:13 Here's proof in the pudding

You can hear a very, very subtle clap in the background. Listen again. Now, first of all I want to give you a sample. There's my sample. Now you'll notice a line underneath there. Now that's near enough the precise point where the count is. Sample. Let's have a listen. Sample. Listen. Oh, that's example. Hold on. Now, he's... Here's proof in the pudding. Sample. Now because I hit that on the precise point where you get that bar coming in, it sounds completely different. Listen. Sample, sample. Now we're almost, if you listen to that very carefully, we're almost missing out the S. Ample, ample. So what I need to do there, I need to try and get it just before. Now I'm going to do it here, we've got it exactly on the ample. So we're missing...

A fraction of the beginning of that word. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to try and get it at the precise point where we get that sub. So it's going to be right about sort of a... Oh god, blimey. There. Alright, tiny, tiny change, but it could mean the difference between getting it perfectly on and perfectly off. Now I want to give you an example. There it is. Now this is the difference because the example is that the time of the beat is on the A. So... Let's get fine, that's the example. Bring it back. And if I, hold on. Just pause that a second. Let's just get the camera over here. That's slightly bare. Sorry, I've got sellotape holding the camera up. So, here we go. So again, if you listen to example...

5:05 Where's my bloody pens gone?

So where would that be? Here. Pen. Where's my bloody pens gone? Right. Alright, I'm just going to choose any one of these. Example. So E-X-A-M-P-L-E-T-Y-F-O. Just for kidding around that. I can't spell to save my wife. So example. Example. So also example, so example, so example and then we've got that hand clap on example. So one, two, sorry, one, two, three, four, example, four, example, four, example, four. Alright, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to put that there. And I've got a small loop of cameo candy. We'll come over here and put that down there, like so. Let's cue it off from there. Here we go. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to hit that on the count of one and let's hear how it sounds. Can you see how it's off? And again. This is the incorrect way of doing it. Now I'm going to hit it at the right time with the example.

7:29 Let's start it from the beginning again

And again. So let's start it from the beginning again. Alright, let's make a few cue points.

Alright, slight timing off there but it doesn't matter. Hopefully you get the general idea here how An acapella can change and it doesn't necessarily mean that because a certain... Just stop that a second. Because you have words as in A, B, C, D... Well, actually that's letters, sorry. You know, cat, dog, mouse, bird. You do not have C starting here. Cat, dog, mouse, bird. The way the rapper could be talking or rapping... The word, let's say for example, catapult. Alright, cat, because cat's a bit like the cats on the map. Catapult. You know, you could have cat-a-puh, the puh on the number two. Catapult, etc. Alright? Now I hope that's been a help. Look into this and try it yourself. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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