DJ Tutorial Take a Hot Cue or a Loop and Make It Your Own

0:01 Sometimes the obvious isn't obvious until it's obvious

Right, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes the obvious isn't obvious until it's obvious. Yeah, okay. Right, Jonathan Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor here. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Also, post a comment. I'd love to get your feedback. Now, it's irrelevant about the tracks. This is all about explaining how to get around something that you want to do but you can't do it. So, I will explain what you can't do. I'm going to have a beat on this side. On the other side, we're going to have like a little melody. Listen.

Now, admittedly, if you made that at the right speed as the beat, you could match them in but we don't want to do that. We want to sort of chop it up. We want to have a bit of fun with the melody and instead of the melody going through its own motion over the beat, we want to chop the melody up so we can make our own kind of melody out of it. So, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to set some hot cues. There. There.

There we go. Now, this is, when I say pure logic, it's like anything in life. If you don't know how to do it, you don't know what you're doing, just get a quick tip like this and you're on your way. Right, so what I'm going to do, just form a quick loop.

Now again, doing this manually.

That's a bit better.

2:57 I hope you get the idea there

Now, I hope you get the idea there. Now, hopefully, I'm not going to get some kind of copyright issue with this video because I'm just chopping up the track. So, let me run through exactly what I did. I just set some hot cues on the track on the left. So, what I did and again, depending on how long you let that hot cue last, if you rewind, you'll notice that when I press the hot cue A, the first sound for the very first time, it actually did indeed go into... ...into the next note. So again, all I needed to do was just press it twice for it to last longer of course. And then you hit the next note and the third one. So what you can pretty much do is design your own melody around a beat. So let's take that step further.

Let's imagine you do indeed want to play that track. Well, you could just have a beat going on the other deck, make up your own melody using... ...the notes and then just let it play. You know, again, what I'm trying to explain here is something that is relatively simple. But what you're doing is, again, you're remixing a track or tracks. Now, you'll notice on the right hand side, again, I had a loop. I'm using CDs. So of course, you know, I'm not going to get a perfect loop if you're using a PC program, which is more than likely now. And you're using... ...the correct software, et cetera. You're going to get a loop that is bang on the money. So when you've got that loop running, you could then maybe also loop the melodies as well.

So for example, what I could have done, I could have gone to the in and out button, recorded that as a loop itself, and then looped that over the track if the timing was correct. And again, if you've got more hot cues, for example, if you're using any of the CDJs or for that matter, the controllers. As well, like the RX, the XZ and other controllers out there. I only use the Pioneer kit to apologize. Then that means that you can not only just record loops, you can record hot cues as well. So you could do what I'm doing with the hot cues and go to the loops as well. So again, the only thing stopping you is your imagination. I hope this has been a little bit of a help. Let me know in a comment. Don't forget to like and subscribe.

Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy.

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