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Stage 3 Beatmatching Course 3 of 4

Practising Until It Sticks

Beginner 9 lessons · 1 h 11 min

Beatmatching is not understood, it is drilled. These are the practice routines, including what to do when it has genuinely stopped improving - and two honest fallbacks for getting through a set while the skill is still coming.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Run a practice routine that improves the skill rather than repeating it
  • Diagnose why your mix keeps drifting
  • Train your ear on off-beats as well as on-beats
  • Get through a set musically even on a night when beatmatching is not working

Lessons

  1. A beatmatching practice routine

    3:51

  2. More practice, with the mistakes left in

    6:50

  3. Teaching yourself to beat match

    15:37

  4. When you find beat mixing hard

    8:21

  5. Beatmatching with off beats

    7:46

  6. Getting the beats solidly locked

    7:07

  7. An interactive beatmatching exercise

    Optional 10:41

  8. Using the drop when the beatmatch will not come

    Optional 5:34

  9. Mixing musically without beatmatching

    Optional 5:06

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Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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