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Stage 6 Performance Technique Course 5 of 5

Acapellas and Tricks

Advanced 8 lessons · 39 min

Putting a vocal over someone else's instrumental is the oldest trick in the job and still the one that gets the biggest reaction. Plus a handful of set pieces - spin backs, a tune inside a tune, and one involving a record played upside down.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Drop an acapella over a beat in time and in key
  • Put one track inside another and get back out again
  • Execute a spin back without losing the beat
  • Keep a trick in reserve for the moment it fits

Lessons

  1. Mixing an acapella into a beat

    6:59

  2. An old track and an acapella in the mix

    9:25

  3. A tune inside a tune

    3:39

  4. A trick to throw in mid-mix

    3:16

  5. A stutter chop, and what running two records costs

    2:38

  6. The spin back

    7:10

  7. A trick on a CD deck

    Optional 2:40

  8. Playing a record upside down

    Optional 2:44

    A novelty, kept because it explains how the platter works.

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