One Way to Set up a Harmonic DJ Mix for a Great Sounding Transition

0:01 Key folder, or let's say you're

Right, this is a video for complete beginners on harmonic mixing. So you've got your kit, you've got your setup, you've analysed your tracks through the appropriate software, but you just want to form some kind of harmonic mix. So what you need to do is go to the key folder, or let's say you're using your laptop and if you look at the screen, you know, you should have track, title, artist, BPM, album, and you should have an icon with key. Now, if you don't have that icon, generally with the software you're using, using your mouse, if you highlight over the headings where it says, title, artist and track and right click, you should have a drop down menu and in that drop down menu, you should see key.

1:40 Sorry about the camera jumping around

Click on that and then you should then have all of the tracks in key or I'll start again. You should have the tracks then shown in key as well. If you don't have that, what you can do is you can. Copy, so all of the tracks, all of your tracks are highlighted, then right click if you're using, I think something like virtual DJ and then you can batch analyse them and that will then analyse the key as well. So what we're going to do here is basically a simple video and we're going to hold on. Let me just can I zoom out? Hold on. No, I want to zoom out. There you go. That's better. Okay, so what we're gonna do is we are going to form some kind of really quick mix here using the key. Sorry about the camera jumping around.

2:42 How mixing in key works

I've got it on one of those arms. So first of all, we can see artist track key album and so on. So I'm gonna click down on key and we could just go anywhere. It doesn't matter. Go away and click down again and click down again on a and now I've got a whole bunch of tunes. So let's just go to one here and there. Let's just zip it forward a bit or actually so we don't get hammered with copyright issues there. All right, so we've got the track playing. I'm now going to press back and I'm gonna choose another tune. Let's have a listen other side. All right now that sounded very dodgy because it was thrown together. But if we listen to the actual music content harmonically matched this is the whole idea of this video to show you how

Mixing in key works and also if we look at the decks the screen, sorry on deck one. We have a deck to we have a so we have the same keys now very quickly to finish off this video if you're new to DJing and you just want to form some kind of mix that sounds pleasurable to the ears. You can't go wrong with mixing in key that is paramount. The number one. To having a good smooth mix. Okay, more videos like this to come. Thank you for watching practice and enjoy.

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