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0:00 Another video for you on helping you how to construct your set

Alright folks, another video for you on helping you how to construct your set. Just to let you know as well, the track we're listening to is Atlantis, a track entitled No More Excuses, it's the vocal mix. Right, what I want you to imagine is we've got deep tracks, we've got your sort of chug along tracks, we've got your very uplifting tracks and we've got your mellow tracks. Now first of all, the uplifting tracks, we're going to class those as major tracks. In other words, the key is in the major key. They're very uplifting and vibrant. Deep tracks are in the minor key. They're a little bit more deeper. They almost like lower the whole feel of the entire set.

But they can be used well just as much as the uplifting chug-along. We're going to class those as the sort of tracks that will almost just take the crowd on the same key Now a lot of people at home will construct a set, it will be a fantastic set. They think they can take that to a venue and it will be perfect. It could be perfect but then again sometimes during the course of the evening you will need to change your set because you have to work with the crowd and also the crowd work with you. It's a two way scenario. There's no point taking a set and thinking, that's the fantastic set, it can work any club.

Because halfway through your set, the crowd may not be into it and you'll have to change it. And if you can't change it, you could be stuck with the set you've got and you could fall flat on your arse. So, alright, let me just turn this down a little bit. Alright, now let's say for example, all of a sudden, we start off with a mellow track, we get them.

4:13 Maybe you need to change the feel again

We get people going and then, you know, maybe we think we want another mellow track. Now at this point we may think we want to start chugging these people along so we'll play maybe three tracks. Now at this point they've had enough of the mellow and chugging along. They want a change. They want a change in the feel of the music. So what we could do, we could start making them go deep. And we could do a couple of deep tracks. Now, we could look at the crowd and think, yeah, we've gone mellow, we've chugged along, we've gone deep. Now, at this point, maybe we want to uplift them. And we could start, let's say at this point here, we could start to uplift them. And then a little bit more, and a little bit more. Now, there's going to come a point at which you can't really take them any further. And if you carry on doing this, you're either going to wear them out or...

All of a sudden, it's just going to lose the whole vibe of the set. So at some point, you've got to start to bring them down or maybe even mellow them out. Now at this point, this doesn't necessarily mean to say that we've just dropped all the way down. What this means is that we're still at this point here. We're not taking them higher, we're just keeping at this point like so. And again... Maybe, at this point, we should have the chug along tracks. In other words, we're keeping at that point. In fact, I'm going to take away the blue ones and I'm going to put the chug along tracks because that's where we want to keep them. Like so. Now all of a sudden now, they're high as a kite. Everyone's enjoying themselves. All of a sudden, we just want to completely change the feel. So, we could knock a couple of deep tracks. All the way down here.

Now again, like I said earlier, if you've practiced your set at home and it's a brilliant set and you bring that set to a nightclub, it may not work because at this point there could have been a fight in the room or there could be a serious problem. So maybe you need to change the feel again. Maybe you need to mellow it out, to change the entire feel of your set and in turn you will change the Bosh! Alternatively, maybe, take that one away. You want to chug along quite happily and then just go back deep again. And guess what guys? You've taken your crowd on a journey. So there you go. I hope that's been a help. I hope you've got a general sort of idea. If you've got any more info, please be my guest. Leave comments, leave video responses, practice and enjoy.

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