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DJ Tutorial Dubstep with echo

Lesson Intermediate Stage 6: Performance Technique November 2010

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0:00 In this one we're going to be playing a bit of the old dubstep

Right guys, another demo stroke tutorial that's completely random, possibly brilliant for a few people and most people they'll just sit and watch and go, OK. Right, in this one we're going to be playing a bit of the old dubstep. What I'm going to do though is make this particular tune sound completely different. Have a listen. It's distance and night vision. And on that side, I've got this tune. Exactly the same tune. Right, it's dubstep. What is dubstep first of all? Now let's imagine almost like a mix between hip-hop and a very slow drum and bass. Like that. Right, first... Okay, first of all I'm going to do a bit of a demo and then I'll explain exactly what I was doing. So here we go.

1:47 Not hit, hit, tap

So what was going on? Now, if you listen to the track without any of that, have a listen. What I was actually doing, I was hitting this, then the next one, slightly off beat, so we had an echo. Listen. That's what I was doing. Hit, hit. No, alright, no. Just tap, tap. Not hit, hit, tap. Don't hit them. Hit them and they die. Don't. Right. So tap, tap. What you've got to remember as well, you've got to remember which one you hit first because you have to go back to that one, start that one off again as the first one. Otherwise, if you start this one off, you'll be slightly off beat. And again, timing. Okay, so in other words, what I could do just with the one, going blurry now. It's not going blurry. There you go. So of course then incorporate another one and we've got something like this. And there I was hitting them both at the same time. So of course if you hit them at the same time, precisely at the same time,

Thank you for watching. See you next time.

There you go. Quick video, and while this is uploading and downloading and doing all the jiggly bits on the web, hopefully I'll get another tutorial on how to mix dubstep. I hope. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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