Intermediate DJ Lesson Demonstration on Keeping a Loop in the Mix

0:00 This is an intermediate DJ lesson

Right, ladies and gentlemen, this is an intermediate DJ lesson. What we're going to do is play a tune, go into loop that tune, I'm going to bring in another track, then we're going to go back to the loop and then bring in another track.

6:50 We're coming to the end of the track as well

It's intermediate because it's not difficult, it's not easy, you've got to know what to do, you've got to know how to mix. So, the tracks I'm using are, I'll put them in the description, I promise. I've already set up a couple of points...excuse me a second. Hello? Yeah? Okay. Yeah, sure. Yeah? Mm-hmm. It's four pigs, two cows. Okay? Yeah. Delivered tomorrow...no. If you can, if you can deliver them the day after tomorrow please, along with the hens, okay? Yeah, no ducks, no, no. I've had enough last week, okay? Thanks. Yeah, goodbye. So, it's not beginner, it's definitely not advanced, it's intermediate. Okay, so what I've done, I've got a track here and I've already set a loop. Track here, we're going to mix into the loop, then we're going to go back to the loop and then bring in a third track.

Now, there's lots of reasons for doing this kind of transition or these transitions.

One, I thoroughly love is the knitting together of songs. So we have a song that's playing, we come to the latter part of that track, we engage the loop, we bring in the next track. Then we take the loop out and we play this song. During the course of the second track, you could if you wanted to just subtly bring in parts of that loop and then towards the latter part of the second track, we bring the loop from the first track back in and then we bring in the third track over the loop again. So, we're doing transition, we are, we're mixing but we're not mixing the conventional way. Alright, so let's have a listen to this track here. It's a remix of like that Coco Cabana style. I love it, it's fantastic.

The old Mr Barry Manolo. So it's got that really nice Caribbean style of feel. Let's have a listen to the end.

Okay, so we've got some nice Brazilian kind of vibe.

3:15 Again, think in advance or not think in advance actually

That's my loop.

That's my loop.

So again, think in advance or not think in advance actually. Just imagine I played this track. We come to the end of it and I'm now going to go into the loop. If you don't know how to do a loop, well in fact you should because this is an intermediate lesson so you should know how to do a loop. That's not the lesson. Alright, we play the track. We're coming to the end of it. We're gonna get ready to go into the loop and then we're gonna bring in the next track.

In fact, I'll just pause that. I'll make sure I've got this one ready as well. I shouldn't have done that, should I? Hold on. I'm empty! Yeah, yeah.

It's alright. I just lost my place for the second track. Well, third track actually. Okay, so let's go back a little bit.

Come in playing this. Forward, da-da-da, cries jumping around everywhere and we're ready to go into the loop.

Okay, we're into the loop. Now we're gonna bring in the next track. I'm slowly taking the bass out from the loop.

5:35 I'm noticing coming to the break maybe the loop was taken out too abru

I'm noticing coming to the break maybe the loop was taken out too abruptly. Maybe I could have just slowly brought it out instead of just snapping it out but that comes with experience. I haven't got any. Okay, now bear in mind because I've set the loop on a hot cue I can bring this loop in anytime I want to. So let's go maybe a little bit into the track Okay. Boom, love this track. Now again think loads of bass line going on there. I don't want to overpower this track. More bass line so let's take the bass out of this track and just bring in the loop with no bass.

Suck it in the background.

Okay.

I'm not quite sure. I might not have actually brought the loop in at the beginning of the correct phrase but I don't think I have. But I don't think that matters for this demonstration. It's probably a very good idea to bring it in the correct phrase so you've got a good formulated loop instead of something that's half way through a phrase. You should understand that. Okay, we're coming to the end of the track as well. So we come to the end of the track. Let's go to the last sort of 32 bars which is roughly about a minute.

Still the bass is still out on the loop. Sorry, it is back.

Went completely off there. Okay, so I'm now going to bring in my next track.

8:57 Let's imagine again we've got

Got about 16 or so bars here before the track comes in. So I don't really need the bass in either. Bass is at 9 o'clock. Going to take the bass out and on the loop.

Okay, so this tutorial is very simple. You have a track playing. You form a loop. Now bearing in mind as well even before this track's playing on the first one let's imagine again we've got a track playing on this side. Not this track, another song. On your headphones you're listening to the track that you're going to get the loop out of. You can go to the end of that track or anywhere for that matter in that track get the loop ready somewhere in that track and then of course you play that track towards the latter part of that song you bring in the loop. You bring in your next track over that loop and then the second track happily plays or sorry, the third track happily plays when that one's coming to the end

Bring your loop back in and then take this track out. The loop is playing then. That's out there, nothing else and then bring in your other track. So you're not just going right, left, right, left you're going right, left, left, right, right, left, left, right Excuse me a second. No. No hens. Ducks were last week. A couple of horses that'd be wonderful. OK, cheers, thanks, bye, cheers.

Thank you very much for watching don't forget this is an intermediate DJ lesson and I'm going to be at the Mobile Beat Show in Las Vegas February 21st to the 27th I'm going to be in Vegas at the Riviera Hotel so come along, say hello and I will be with V-Moda and we'll be showing the V-Moda products if you're interested in getting some good quality headphones and now believe me, you know I never say you've got to buy these but out of all of the products I have reviewed and used over the years I do like V-Moda headphones because they kick butt practice and enjoy. Thank you. Can I go now?

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