Wedding Mobile DJ Mixing Tips BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 A mobile DJ of course plays music

Alright guys, so what does a mobile DJ do? Well a mobile DJ of course plays music. He or she will entertain the public. Now let's imagine you've got 100 people at your event. Now first of all what you've got to think of is out of those 100 people, a random selection of old kids, adults, up to people who are probably going to die in the next 6 months. Okay, all ages. 80% of those people probably have no idea what anything does in front of you. So you could have a laptop controller, you could have passive speakers, active speakers, lighting. They haven't got the foggiest. They don't know what it does. If you put them behind the DJ console and showed them buttons they'd go, have you just ripped all of these out of a 747?

1:13 Do you really want to do those long transitions?

On the other hand there are probably 20% of the people who will have a general idea because they've seen videos, they've watched Ibiza and they know a little bit about it. But they still wouldn't really know what to do and if you left them behind the DJ console while you were sick or went to the toilet, they would go. On the other hand though there's probably out of those 20% two people who would go, yeah I know what to do. Because at home they've got their own setup and they're a DJ. But let's imagine you're doing a wedding. Do you really want to do those long transitions? There's no point at all. At weddings most of the time they want to hear pop charty stuff. They want to have a lot of fun. They want to have two minutes, two and a half minutes of a track followed by the next track and so on. Now I use a lot of the time these CDs here, the Now CDs. I am not getting paid for this video from now. From now? I am not getting this video from now. Later on I am but not from now. Now 94 there.

Now I've got a couple of tracks here. These are the sort of transitions I will do at any kind of event really. A wedding or the like. This is what we came for Calvin Harris. First of all I'm going to show you the wrong kind of transition and then I'm going to show you the right kind of transition. So let's go towards a break now this Calvin Harris tune is 123 BPM and the Cheats Codes with Criss Cross is 105 BPM. Have a listen, so this is what I wouldn't do.

3:04 Let's go back to the original transition

Now even though that matches musically, it's out of beat. 105, 123. We'll never mix BPM wise even if you spend the next 50 million years doing it. It won't do it. It won't happen. But what we can do is let's have a listen to this beginning. Okay what I'm going to do. Now I have queued that up on the last bar of the last phrase before the count of one. Let's talk about S. So the S in sex is the count of one. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to do a similar transition hopefully a lot better but I'm going to wait till the end of the phrase of Calvin Harris and then bring that track in at the correct phrasing of the Calvin Harris tune. And then as soon as I brought the second track in, I'm going to take the Calvin Harris out.

So let's go back to the original transition. So let's go back to the original transition point and let's have a listen. Simple, but only if you know what to do. Now these are the sort of transitions I will be doing practically all night to your run-of-the-mill wedding because they don't want to hear long transitions. If you think that you have to have the extended versions and have an intro and an outro of 16 bars then you're an absolute muppet. People like to listen. People like to hear the melody, the vocals. They want to hear what they've heard on the radio. They don't want to hear a dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum

Sorry because about four minutes into the track they'll be going, what the bloody hell is this DJ playing? Remember that 80%. I hope this has been helpful. been a help practice and enjoy thank you very much

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