Mobile DJ Mixing Demonstration Advise Tutorial BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:01 Demonstration first, then the explanation

Alright guys, demonstration first, then the explanation.

Alright, that was a really, really short demonstration, but there's a lot of meaning behind this. Now, a lot of mobile DJs will chop from one to the other, it's very commercial, lots of poppy songs, lots of well-known tracks, but a lot of the well-known tracks have got quite a bit of an introduction. It's a bit slow, it's a bit boring. Sometimes what you want to do is you want to keep that vibe, you want to keep the momentum going, you want to keep the people not only on the floor, but you need to keep them interested. So, let's rewind a little bit. Let's imagine we have a track playing on the right-hand side. We've got a track playing on the right-hand side first, that's playing Everyone's Happy, Everyone's Jumping Around, Jolly Jolly.

And then we bring in this one over here. So, from the beginning or whatever, you know, we're bringing it in. Now, but more importantly, I'd probably... So, I'd probably bring it in here. Okay, so the crowd are now listening to that track. What I'm going to be doing now is, what I'm going to show you is what I'd be doing on my headphones. I'm going to go to the first, after the first phrase or one of the phrases there. Okay, now I've got... To that point in the track, because that is possibly the most best known part of the track. I mean, everyone knows Good Feeling. Hopefully they do. So, if I was to maybe start it here.

2:05 We've got no kick

Now, again, people know this.

We've got no kick. It's just... It's an introduction.

What I want to do is, I want to get it at the point in the track where, you know what? Boom! It's going straight in. A few people... People are probably thinking, yeah, but you're halfway through the track. You're going to be missing half the track. Well, let's take this the next level. All right. Now, again, even sometimes when I'm doing a video, a tutorial, I'm thinking in advance. And I've just now... While I thought you've thought about something, I'm thinking about it and I'm going to do it for you. Right. So, hopefully a few of you would have thought of it. It'll be as clear as mud very shortly.

5:03 It's chop, bang, bang, bang, bang one to the other

There. So, I'm going to say... So, I'll cue there. I will explain very shortly.

Let's go back to that point that I mentioned earlier on.

Okay. So, we've got two. All right. So, let's go back to our track that we're playing here. All right. Now, again, we've gone maybe a minute and a half into that track. So, we've missed quite a bit of it. So, guess what? Let's go two towards the end.

We can see we're quite close to the end now.

Two, three, four. Beginning of the track. There you go. Now, at this point now, we're playing the beginning of the track. So, from B where I set my first or second hot cue, sorry, and the track started playing, I've got from that time up to the end to get my next track ready at a similar kind of position. If I've done that correctly, then from A...

I don't have to then wait till the end of the track. I can start mixing the next track in or cutting it in at the end of this phrase. So, let's have a look.

Try and do this now.

There.

Okay. So that was done like really quickly, but this is the kind of feel and energy crowds like, especially at mobile gigs. It's chop, bang, bang, bang, bang one to the other. If you think about it when you're doing a mobile gig, it's complete. It's completely different to a club environment because the club environment, they want to hear that dum-dum-dum. They want to hear, you know, maybe lots of bass line. Maybe they're happy to listen to 16, 18, 32, 64 bars of just a beat. But when you're in a mobile environment and you've got Auntie Joan, Auntie Megan, Uncle Stan there, you've got all age groups most of the time, not all the time, most of the time. And believe me, every single professional DJ out there watching this video has been DJing.

DJing for 10, 20 years will agree with me. They do not want to just listen to a constant beat. Most of them don't. Most of them want to listen to commercial tracks. They want to listen to the Jacksons. They want to listen to the Robbie Williams. They want to listen to yeah, take that and goodness knows what else they want to listen to the vocals, to the melody. They want it chopped up again, digressing slightly very sorry microphone in between the tracks as well. Okay. Doesn't matter. But if you do want to keep the vibe on the dance floor, if you can mix like this cuts like this, the crowd will stay over there. I hope that's been a help practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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