How to cut and chop DJ Tutorial.... video 2

0:00 Going out to Groovin' DJ

This first part is going out to Groovin' DJ. Cutting. Okay, two tracks we're going to be looking at is one here, it's on the CD, it's taken from The House, April 08 from CDPool, it's track number 7, disc 1, Pat Rich featuring Francisca St Martin, track entitled Runaway Goddess, and this guy here on vinyl is on Slip N Slide, it's Ray Rock featuring DC, a track entitled Whisper. Alright, cutting. Now, in the last video I mentioned about when you cut, you just go from one side to the other. 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2, like so. Alright, not necessarily 1-2, you can do it any time. But, if you think about it, all music isn't just 1-2-3. You've actually got things happening in between the beats. Now, if you're a drummer, you will know, or hopefully you'll know what I'm on about when I say, when I talk about an accent.

Now let's say for argument's sake, I hit a symbol on the count of four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Like so. Well I'm actually hitting that symbol exactly on beat. I could hit it on one, or two, or three, or four. Now when... Bouncy floor. Right, what we've got is an accent. Now an accent is almost in between those two beats. So for example, one, two, three, four. Like so. So you can hit it, bam, in between the beats. Now the reason I'm saying that is because... First of all, let's have a listen to the music. Right, here we go. Perfect example. Have a listen. I'm going to count. One, two, three, four, five, six. Now, it was very, very subtle, but we had that diddy-diddy sound. Now that was actually in between the two beats. You count for yourself and you'll see exactly where I'm coming from. Six, one.

2:22 Bass treble, different, stage

Right in between. So, when we're chopping, going from one side to the other, it doesn't have to be 1, 2, 3, 4. It can be 1, 2, 3, 4. Straight in between. Now this is where every DJ can be completely different in their mix, even if they're mixing exactly the same tracks. You put them together. It's where you actually chop one into the other. So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to play this one, we're going to bring this one in and I'm going to slowly mix it, maybe chop it up a little bit and I could do this exact mix a hundred times but if I move that crossfade over at different times during the exact same mix it could sound completely different because there are so many different facets to consider. Now

If you imagine we're at the bottom of a hill and doing this sort of chopping is stage one, or let's say the first video I did was stage one. Maybe this is stage two. Stage three could be doing the first form of chopping I did but messing around with the bass as well. And then we could do messing around with the bass and the treble, or the bass mid and treble. Then we could do this video which is video number two And then we could mess around with a bass, mid and treble as well. So there are so many different facets. Believe me, it's mind-boggling. But don't panic and don't think, oh my God, I'll never be able to do this. Because this is why every DJ out there is individual. Because eventually they find their own styles. Exactly the same with you. You will find your own style. You'll find something that you enjoy doing, something that maybe you can't do, other things that you're brilliant at. That's what makes life...

4:10 I was trying to listen to the music

Diverse. Right, here we go. Let's put this track on. So there you go. Basically what I was doing there, I was chopping at the same... or cutting, whatever you want to call it. At the same time, I was doing a bit of a mix at the end as well, but I wasn't just concentrating on cutting on the 1 or the 2 or the 3 or the 4. I was trying to listen to the music. I think that's the main part of this particular video. Listen to the actual track first. Listen to each individual facet of the music and maybe think, yeah, Thank you very much. Pardon? Oh, you're not going to whip me again, are you?

This transcript was produced automatically from the audio of the video and may contain mistakes.