Pitch Riding Bang on BPM Mixing with Underground Tunes from CD Pool February 2020

0:00 We've got a nice little progressive tune here

Alright, so we've got a nice little progressive tune here. These are from the Underground releases February 2020 CD pool. This is Afraid, the extended mix. Okay, so what I'm going to do now is I have got two tracks here. I'm going to put them both at the centre position like that. Now, the one, and this is really good practice, the one on the right is showing me 124 point... 4 BPM, let me just reduce it so now it is at 124. So 124 on the right, on the left we need to reduce that very slightly, 126 BPM. So we've got a difference in BPM. What I'm going to do right now and this is great practice for you is I am going to cover the screen with a very old school blip game. TV set needed. No TV set needed, sorry. Made in Japan. The Play Anywhere tennis game. My little boy is really into old school games. Let me just make sure that you're all... Yeah, you're in focus. OK, so what I'm going to do, play the track on the left, play the track on the right, beatmatch them and see how close I am. Now, there is no other means of getting any BPM.

They're not on the screens here. This is the XDJ-XZ. No info on the screens except underground. I can't see any BPM or anything like that. So, this is really good practice. Now, again, I already know that this one's slower so I'm going to have to speed this one up but it's about fine tuning it and I will be very annoyed if I don't get it either bang on or point one out. So, here we go.

2:14 Oh my god, check it out

So I can't see any BPM. Still too slow. Getting close. Very close. Oh my god, check it out. Don't know if you can see that, but that is bang on the money. That's about practice. Bang on the money. 126. Bang on. That's practice. And again, nothing on the screen. No other way of finding out the BPM. That's just hard work and practice. Now again, the underground releases. are all about twisty, bendy, kind of very minimal feel and vibe. This is Marimba track. Marimba. Spelled M-A-R-I-M-B-A. And then track. It's the original mix. Okay? Let's find something else. Next one along is Beautiful. Wait for the phrasing. Okay, so we pretty much had like a drop there into a break. Break started here, took the break out, came into the next break, or the first break, sorry, on the beautiful tune. Okay, I just need to change my time to count down, not count up. Always a good idea as well with your timing. First of all, make sure you're in auto-cue, AQ. That means that when you bring another track in, it doesn't play automatically. Auto-cue will automatically cue it up. And also, you really do need a count down, not a count up.

9:53 Sometimes it's a great idea as well

Best to have a countdown, which always lets you know how much time you've got left instead of, oh look, 4 minutes 20 and the track was 4 minutes 22. I hope you get what I mean there. Okay, so let's find something else. This one here, like I said, beautiful. Coming in. Nice lift here. Extended mix. Pitching this one up. Took out a master tempo to increase the key. Okay, let's do one more. Let's have a look and see what we've got here. I'm just sort of flicking through them now. Sometimes it's a great idea as well. Instead of like, you know, spending time that track that, just have a flick through your tunes and just think, even if you go from track one all the way through to track 30. If track three goes with one, give it a go. Then you're playing track three. If track nine goes with three, try it. Then you're playing track nine and then maybe 14 goes with it. Give it a go. It's just, you know, it's about different ways of finding tunes.

Try not to stick to the same routine all the time. While I was listening to just that part of that track, I was like, you know what? Let's do a loop here and let's see what happens. And that's what happened. All right? Again, it's just, you know, this is like art. It's like giving 100 artists the same paints, the same thing to paint, the same canvas, same paintbrushes, but every single artist will have their own interpretation of that image in front of them. LSD, the original mix. What you just heard earlier on was a look at her 303. These are the underground releases from CDPool. There will be a link in the description. And if you are feeling like taking part with CDPool, there is a code in there. If you're a first-time user, use that code. You'll get 50% off your first month's download. Terms and conditions apply, of course. All I can say is it's about having fun. I thoroughly enjoy this messing around. Talk over, practice and enjoy.

Thank you.

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