Simple DJ Phrase Mixing Dub Step Lesson

0:00 Hopefully this will be a very simple to follow dubstep mixing tutorial

All right guys, hopefully this will be a very simple to follow dubstep mixing tutorial. Two tunes I'm using is Art of Revolution on the right hand side and on the left a track entitled Blast Off. Now let's imagine first of all we've got a track playing on the left. What you would need to do or you don't actually have to do this but it's a great way of just giving you a little bit of help. You bring in your track on the right which would happen to be Art of Revolution and you'd set a cue point. The cue point is where you need to bring the track in. So imagine now the track we're listening to on the left is track one, Art of Revolution will be two and then track three will be Blast Off back on the left hand side. So a couple of pointers here. Firstly where you set your cue point or you're going to set your cue point where you're going to bring the third track in. Now the cue point there is a visual way of looking to see how far you are away, how close

1:30 Count down it's at zero

You are to mixing track number three which is of course Blast Off. Also another good way of finding out where the track or where you are and when you want to bring the track in is look at the time left. I highly recommend you always every single time do count down not count up. Why? Well simply because when you've got count up where you don't really know because when you get to the end of the track it says four minutes and 30 seconds and you think I thought it was four minutes and 31. When you go to count down it's at zero. Guess what? You've got bugger all time left so you should know. It should be a lot easier. Okay so set my cue point over there. I know exactly where I'm going to bring in over here track number three. I've also set a cue point on track number three as well. Now if I wanted to to make sure that I was

That I got this snapping boom in time I could form a loop. I'm not going to go too deep because I don't want to bore you with me waffling all the time. So I'm going to skip back a little bit and press play here. Okay I've got them already. Now again with practically every single style of modern day dance music it's all in it's all about the phrase mixing. This is really important. It may be four bars 8 16 or 32 but it's about the phrasing of the track. Try and always make sure that the next track you bring in is not only in time in a key that works but also in phrase. If you get those three things sorted then you're about an eighth of the way there because a lot of it is about the selection the feel the vibe the energy of the tracks and so on

And so on. The list can go on but this is the difference between an average mix up to a super mix where you just can't hear the blend unlike this one. Here we go.

3:30 I hope that's been a help

Okay I hope that's been a help. Now remember as well with dubstep counting have a listen one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four also want you to listen to the structure of the beats. Now what you'll find it's very similar to drum and bass where you do want to concentrate more on the two and the four which is of course the snare. One one two. Done that twice now. Two four two four two four two two. Hope that's been a help. Don't forget, it's about having fun. Practice and enjoy. Muchas gracias.

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