Dub Step DJ Mixing Lesson Adding a Hard and Soft Cut for a New Dimension

0:00 How you can add two tracks

Right guys, in this demonstration straight tutorial we're going to be mixing some dubstep. We've got two tracks, one is very dark, the other one is very soulful, so the object behind this tutorial is to show you how you can add two tracks together, do a bit of sort of a mash-up, have the dark track playing for a little bit, bring the two together and then maybe have a hint of the other track. The other track is very soulful and airy, this one is a bit dark and deep, it's not pure dark drum and bass, I nearly said that. Edit, no, dubstep. It's got that sort of heavy edge let's say. Okay, so this one is Alias by Heat 2, beg your pardon. This one is Alleviation, it's the original mix. So let's just have

A quick listen to it a little bit. A little bit of a listen to this one here. You see it's very nice and mellow, it's still sort of a dubstep style but I mean this kind of tune you could play to your mum. In fact, your mum probably has got this on her thumb drive. Alright mum, can I have a look at your thumb drive? God, imagine saying that 30 years ago. You'd get a slap. Right, see it's nice. Okay, so let's put them together. First of all, what I'm going to do as well, I've got, did I do two hot cues yet?

1:25 It's not a real true kind of count of one

Now the reason I set two hot cues there is the alias, from that alias point to the beginning of the track itself where the beat kicks in, there's a slight gap. It's not a real true kind of count of one. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, oh, two, three, sorry, I'd worked out the timing there. Sorry, three, four, one, two, three, see yeah it's on the three, see?

3:51 Headphones, mashup meant, fluffy track

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, okay. I used to say you want to be making moves down the street and have no attachment We'll do that one, have no attachments. El 약 Okay guy no attachments. Okay, so let's bring in… the alleviation track with my bars and phrases so we're coming up to a new phrase now together together at some point I'm gonna try to bring another hot cue you'll see why in a bit kind of mix here but very experimental as well half the time I don't really know okay so what was going on here we had two dubstep tracks and I actually did this video earlier on and stopped doing it because I said oh now we've got some drum and bass oops okay couple of dubstep tracks alias heat to this one here alleviation original

Mix what we're trying to do here is we're trying to all the idea behind this video is to show you how you can have two tracks play them pretty much together this isn't a mashup this isn't meant to be a mashup it's meant to for example have a dark track or what slightly gray really and add a nice soulful fluffy track so we can have something in the middle we can have the dark the middle bit and the fluffy track and also have a mess around with the hot cues as well at one point it did go slightly offbeat yes I know comment below but I should have had my headphones on but if I was in a club environment I would have my headphones on and I would have my headphones on and I would have my headphones on because I'd make sure I was at this and studying it also which

Reminds me I always give tips try not to if you can when you're playing out to get too drunk on the odd occasion it's a bit of fun if you're driving home be like me I used to have it the okay well let's say drink I used to have say one maybe two and then I Drive home of course I was in the in the legal limit now I don't drink at all and a lot of people will know that I won't touch a drum drop if I'm driving home because I need to be a compass Mentus and I don't it be running to the toilet all the time and to be quite honest from the client's point of view it doesn't look really good if the DJ is there all night getting drunk practice and enjoy thank you

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