Simple DJ Mixing Transition Tutorial BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:01 Got a very simple kind of transition for you here

Alright guys, got a very simple kind of transition for you here. Two tunes I'm using by the way is the Beastie Boys, a fantastic track entitled Shake Your Rump. Also on the right hand side we have Blondie Rapture. They're both oldish but Blondie is from the 80s and I believe the Beastie Boys is from the 90s or maybe late 80s. Both good tunes. But what I want to try and do here is get a sort of a transition. It's very simple and very quick. So, right, what I've done, I've just set a cue point there at the beginning of sort of a break in the track. Now let's just go back a bit. Remember to press record. Two reasons why I've done, well a lot of reasons actually, why I've done two cue points there. Now first of all, let's have a little listen to the intro of Rapture by Blondie. Here we go.

1:28 Very simple, just a beat

Very simple, just a beat. So, one, one, two, three, two. One, two, three, three. One, two, three, four. One, two, three. Straight in with four bars. So, I don't really want to start looping anything. I want to just throw one into the other. That's it. No special effects. Just simply playing the two tracks using the up faders. No faders. Faders, sorry. No filter, no echo, reverb or bananas. Sorry about saying reverb. I literally just want to put the two together. So, first of all, let's go to my hot cue, the second hot cue I did from here.

Right, so let's count how many bars we've got from that point. So, just go back a little bit. One, one, two, three, two. One, two, three, four. Three, one, two, three, four. One, two, three. Okay, so hopefully you're getting the idea. Now, again, with simple transitions like this, it's not... Yeah, it's the term again, rocket science. It is very simple. It's about a lot of things, but of course main criteria is in time, in phrase, in key. You can't go wrong. And never try and put vocals over vocals. So, I'm going to go back to that point again. Rewind a little bit and bring Blondie in. Bearing in mind at the moment, no headphones plugged in, so this is going to be a rough kind of mix to show you a sort of a transition where you snap out from one, bang into the other.

But there will be other ways of me doing this transition very soon. Here we go. Okay, there you go. Now, again, with some old school tracks, when you go from one phrase to the next, you sometimes have a bit of a change in the BPM. What you've got to remember is not all. I would say most of the old school tunes that have been made by real people. Maybe the BPM is going to fluctuate slightly. I'm not exactly sure with Rapture, Blondie, because it could be just a drummer. But even if it is a real drummer, he or she may not be able to keep that perfect BPM. It could fluctuate. Right, so let's go to my second hot cue, which was here.

4:25 Beginning of the break

Okay, beginning of the break. Now, what I'm going to do first... What I'm going to do first is I'm going to start Blondie at the beginning of that break. And you'll see how it sounds with the next time I do it. So, the first time you heard, this is the second. The third time should sound better. But from a scale of first, second, third, first being the best and third being the worst, I would say the first transition I did is the best. The third one I'm going to do is the second best, and this one I'm going to do is the third best. I'm sure you'll understand. I hope.

Fair slightly. Right, so let's go back.

Now, let's count how many bars we've got at that break. First of all...

One, one, two, three, two. One, two, three, three. One, two, three, four. Two, three, five. One, two, three, sheep. One, two, three, more bananas. Three, and... Father Christmas. Eight! So we've got eight bars, so why don't we start blondie-ing after the first four bars? Let's give it a go.

One, one, two, three, two. One, two, three, three. One, two, three, four. And here we go.

The two tracks you're listening to are from a compilation that I will be doing a video on in the near future. So if you like the old school dance classics, then just watch the channel, Ella Skins. And of course, don't forget to like and subscribe. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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