Intermediate DJ Mixing Lesson a Subtle Mix over a Tune

0:00 It's not a really good idea and don't do it because it's illegal

Alright ladies and gentlemen, this is an intermediate DJ lesson and in this one I'm going to play, I'm going to give you a banger. Now, I'm not going to give you the sort of banger that you would normally use on the 4th of July or maybe in the UK, Bonfire Night, the sort of thing you'd stick behind your Aunty Megan's knickers and scare the living shit out of her. It's not a really good idea and don't do it because it's illegal. Well, depends who you like. No, what I'm going to do though is play a banger. Play a track that is like really current, it's very big and bold. This may not be current in about 3 years time, in fact it won't be, but it is at the moment. Now, again, when you're playing your set, you will of course have certain tracks that you want to play

Because they're appropriate for the time, everyone likes them and if you didn't play them, they'd wonder why you didn't play them. So do you want to play them straight away? No. Do you want to play them during your set? Yes. Would it be a good idea possibly to sneak in little... ...little bits of that track before you play them? Yes, because what you're doing is you're giving people a taste of it. I've done this before, it's teasing the crowd, but there are many different ways of doing that. This is one of them. Two tracks I'm using are from CDPool Global releases August 2014. This is track 1 from disc number 1. This one here is track 1 from disc number 2 and this one is a track entitled Pushing On, it's by Oliver and Jim Jules.

This one here is Richard Irving. This one here is Byrne Shaw and Natasha Watts, day by day. If you want any more info on this, go and check out down there the lickable clink in the description that will take you to CDPool.com

Right, let's have a listen to track 1 disc 2, day by day first.

1:44 Nice key changes really, really beautiful changes

Now this one here, it's got a bit of a garage vibe to begin with but then it does go slightly soulful, maybe a little bit of gospel in there but very uplifting. Here we go. Nice key changes really, really beautiful changes. Beautiful tune. OK, so this one here is the current sort of like stomper in Ibiza and what not. This is Pushing On, so have a listen. Now the bass line in this just chugs along. If this bass line was a machine it would be like an old steam engine that would just carry on going at 50mph for the next 20 years. Well of course you'd need to carry on putting water in it. You'd have to put water in it and stuff like that and the man would still have to stoke the fire and stuff. But it would still carry on going.

OK, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to find key points in this track and bring them over this one. Now I could if I wanted to play that one straight after this track but it would be too soon. So I'd be more likely to play this one, play parts of this stomper over this track and then play 3 or 4 more tunes but then bring this one in. If I was to play this bring tiny fragments of this track in over this one and then when this is finishing, bring this one in people would almost expect it. It's a bit like... I was going to say sort of sex then and getting... No, I shouldn't really do things like that because all ages watch these videos so I won't say anything about that at all. Sorry. What I will say though is it's better...

Sorry. It's better... It's better to play 3 or 4 tracks and then bring that one in. Oh dear, I don't know. I put my foot in it sometimes. Most of the time. All the time. So what I need to do is I need to find parts of this track that I would like to just bring over this tune here. So we'll have a listen again and... We've got the bass line and we've got a break.

Right, now let's have a listen to that vocals.

OK, so we have the filmer in there Now the bass line That first part of the vocals does not start on the count of one. So... Shall we bring it in there? Shall we set a hot cue there and another one and another one? Yes, we will. Right, OK.

5:34 We've got 3 points from this track One especially people should go Wow

OK, so we've got 3 points from this track One especially people should go Wow! Yes! Which is That. So while you're on your headphones you may just think Let's just use that one. Right, let's play this track here.

So now to me It's too dry

We'll add some echo But what I'm going to do is tap in time I'm gonna have three quarter

Now it depends how good or bad you are You may only even have to do that once Now that's too fast So the echo didn't work there

This is where the practice comes in To make sure you subtly bring it in But at the same time It's very important to take it out at the right time If you leave it too long It's a mess If you don't have it enough Then what you want to do in the first place Won't work Therefore you might as well just not bother doing it anyway Let's try again

OK That's pretty much it for this tutorial This demonstration That is pretty much it But You know Sometimes when you're doing When you're putting a transition into your set It doesn't have to be big and bold And full of lights And like

Sometimes it could be just the tiny subtle things That make the difference For example If you're in love Full frontal Snoggy with tongues Is great

Yeah Sometimes a little peck on the cheek Is even better Practice and enjoy I do Thank you

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