DJ Use Loops to Help in the Mix CD Pool July Club 2019

0:00 How loops can help immensely

Alright, so in this tutorial I'm going to show you how loops can help immensely. On the right hand side we have a track entitled Burn It Down, the extended mix. On the left hand side at the moment we have a track entitled Beautiful, the Cubico remix. Now both of these tunes are from the new releases from CDPool. These are from the club releases. From July 2019 and if you're thinking about joining a music pool then consider CDPool because if you are a working DJ in the UK or for that matter in Europe In the description of this video is a code, DJ Tutor. Take that code and get a subscription for CDPool and you will get 50% off your first month's subscription. Now that's quite a big deal. 50% is half, so that's pretty good. Okay, so what I'm going to show you here is how we can extend breaks and also how we can make short tracks longer. So the track on the right, Burn It Down,

Let's have a look. It's 3 minutes 40 seconds. The track on the left, Beautiful, is 620. Now the break in Beautiful, let me play you a little bit of the Beautiful tune first because it is quite beautiful. Nice and mellow, chilled out but it's still got that sort of very moody deep vibe. The break in this is very long but the break in Burn It Down is quite short. I have looped that break. And when the break comes in on Beautiful, I'm going to bring in the loop of Burn It Down and play that over the Beautiful track. But what I want to do then is then pull my mix onto Burn It Down, so have the drop of Burn It Down take over the place of the drop where Beautiful would be. Now, of course, I could if I wanted to

Just start the break of Burn It Down in the last, say, eight bars of the Beautiful track. But because the break of Burn It Down isn't overpowering, I can add that as almost like a bit of a mashup with the break on Beautiful. Now, I hope that makes sense if it doesn't rewind. Okay, so let's spin this board a little bit.

2:37 Just gotta make sure I get my timing

Just gotta make sure I get my timing. So this is the break in Beautiful, this is the break in Burn It Down. We're halfway through the break. All I've got to remember, this is the important part, is when we get to the last eight bars where the loop on the right hand side only has one more time to play, I need to make sure I come out of that loop, inside that last loop. If I don't, it will play again. Here now. There, I'm straight in here, listen. Other side. On the right, on the left side. Back to the right. Okay so, I've just used one loop but There's a lot to this video really and a lot to this demonstration because I've used one loop in a small break and extended that break so it overlaps and it's exactly the same length as the other break on the other side which is of course a very long break, probably 32 bars, 8, 4 times, come out of the loop on the fourth time which means if the drop lands here at a certain point the drop will land on the other track at exactly the same position which is what you want.

5:12 They're not as euphoric, handbaggy and big room as let's say the dance

Again, this is also a demonstration on what you'd expect to have on the new releases. These are the club releases, so they are a little bit more, you know, in your face. They're not as euphoric, handbaggy and big room as let's say the dance releases. They're definitely not as sort of intricate and twisted as the underground and the club, sorry, the global releases, a more chilled out sort of funky house. Soulfully, disco-y house, deep house kind of style. Let's do a random track here. This is Falling by... It's the Freak Jack... Yeah, sorry, Free Jack remix. I'm going to find something on the other side that hopefully will complement it. Let's have a scoot through. Definitely not that, completely out of key. Actually, that's quite a nice tune, that one there. Red light, green light.

This guy higher as well, Stay, has got that similar kind of bassline. A lot of new producers are using that now. It's sort of a wobbly kind of bassline. It's quite en vogue at the moment. Okay, let's just skip this forward a bit. What's the ending like? Ah, this might work here, yeah. So let's go back a bit. I'm going to go towards the last phrase. Here we go, the last phrase.

7:59 From the beginning, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4, 1-2

Okay, now I'm going to do that transition again because I don't know if you noticed, I had this ready on the one and I tried to bring it in as quick as possible. So of course with today's tech, sync, beatmatch, so-and-so and sync and master, you can do that but let's say you just still want to use your ears but you want to not slowly bring that in or not bring it in and hope for the best and try and beatmatch it. You just want to bang it straight in knowing that it will be exactly in time. Here's what we do. So from the beginning, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4, 1-2... OK. I've just formed a loop. Now, I can use the hot key, put it on a hot cue if I want to. Alternatively, now I've got two bar loop here, alright? So you have to be a little bit more careful. But, no, I'll tell you what, let's do a one bar loop. It's a lot easier and...

And you'll get this because with one bar loop, so long as you bring it in on the count of one in a bar on the other side, doesn't matter where you bring it in, it's a one bar loop. What you do have to do is make sure that as soon as the loop comes in and you bring the volume in, get out of it straight away because if you let that loop play once, you're going to be out of phrase. So why am I going to make a one bar loop? I'll show you first. Let's just do that first at the beginning of the track. There, there's my one bar loop. Now what I can do is let's carry on to exactly what we were doing earlier, go towards the end of the track. Okay, so that track is about four, five, six bars before the end of the phrase where...

10:28 Bob's your uncle, aunt's your fanny and safe journey home

Last time I started this track, but what I'm going to do now is I'm going to beat match it using that loop. So I'm going to just play that loop in the background on my headphones and then when I'm good to go, volume straight up out of the loop and there you go. So me getting it beat matched and ready is me listening to that loop and making sure the loop is in time with the track with the volume down as soon as the transition point comes in, volume straight up out of the loop. Bob's your uncle, aunt's your fanny and safe journey home. Right, okay, so here we go. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One. So my loop's in the background. Here we go. Straight out. There we go. Okay, so this one here is a track entitled Stay Don't Go Away. Now let's find something else.

12:38 In here entitled You and Me, The Extended Mix

At the moment as well I've got this stay track quite slow, not at its original speed. So I'm going to speed it up. Now at the moment it's at its original speed by the looks of it, 126 BPM. The break here is quite long. How do we give more energy to that break? Watch. All I've done, I've got it faster. I'm going to let the drop come in and as soon as that drop comes in I'm going to knock it straight back down to its original speed. What this does, speeding it up, speeding the break up, just gives the bass a lot more energy and also doesn't make it last as long. Alright? If you had your eyes closed and you didn't have a metro next to you, you probably wouldn't notice that that had slowed down. In here entitled You and Me, The Extended Mix. Okay, let's skip this. Okay, let's find one more random...

Let's have a listen to this. Actually, I'm just going to play this tune because I actually like it. It's pretty good. I'm going to finish off with the track entitled That's How We Do It. It's the original mix. This is what I call a roller. It's just... I'm trying to give an analogy here. It's a little bit like, you know, I can picture myself on a boat and on the sea and just the waves rolling around you but you're having a nice, you know, the wind's in your face. Check it out.

Vocal sample, it reminds you of... Weekend. You know. Weekend. Class action. Early 80s. I wonder if it is? Check this out. That is a tune. That's got a lot of energy there. A lot of energy. Alright, once again these are the club releases. Thank you very much, practice and enjoy.

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