A Drop Can Lift the DJ Mix or Make It Go Deeper Here's How

0:00 The key here is of course the key

Right guys, so I've talked about the drop in the past many times in videos but what I haven't discussed really is about the drop and how you can form an uplift transition or like a downfield transition. So the key here is of course the key. Now if you want the energy and vibe in a room with the drop to sort of dip a little bit then of course you do need to go down a key. All let's say from major to minor. On the other hand, if you want to uplift the feel and make it more euphoric, then you go from minor to major or maybe up the scale. So again, really, if you imagine you're looking at a keyboard and you want to enhance the energy in the room, you know, it's more likely you're going to go from a low note to a higher note.

If you want to maybe make it a bit more moody, then you go down the scale. Now again, just to clarify, 24 keys, 12 major, 12 minor. The minor keys are more deep and moody, the major keys more uplifting and euphoric. Try this and I guarantee you this will be right. You go through your modern day dance music collection and you'll find the crazy thing is that most of your tracks... are in the minor key. It's crazy really, so what I'm going to do now is go have a listen and I want to find a drop that's a bit lower. So I'm not using the pitch, nothing. I'm just on about now taking the drop. So basically what I'm going to do here is this track by the way, CD Paul June, the club series track one from disc one which is Another Life.

2:48 The break, a bit more of an uplift

So I'm going to wait for the break and basically what I'm going to do is when the break finishes, I'm going to not let the drop play on this track. I'm going to bring the drop in on the other track. And the other one I'm bringing in disc 3, track 3, a track entitled My Time by Tyler... I should have brought it in though, shouldn't I? Bring that volume down slightly maybe, again I should have looked at the EQs. But hopefully it'll give you an idea. Right, what I'm going to do now is try and find something where we can go more of an uplift. So what I want to do now is find something that's got more of an uplift feel. The break, a bit more of an uplift. And also, just coincidentally as well, this track is faster.

So in a way, what we've done here, two things. We've gone from a mediocre track, I'm not saying it's crap, I'm just saying it's mellow, chilled out, gone into a deeper track that is not only slightly lower in feel and vibe, it's also slower in BPM. Then we've gone from that into a track that's slightly more euphoric but it's also faster. Now again, if let's say you wanted, you found the ideal track but the ideal track If you want to have the same speed or speed it up, then just use the pitch. But what is very important if you're going to do that, make sure you have master tempo, also key lock engaged. Because what will happen is if you slow the track down or speed it up without that engaged, you're not only going to slow and speed the track up or down, you're also going to reduce the key if you slow it down or increase the key if you speed it up. Alright, so let's stick now to track five here.

5:15 Track 12 is Wasted Love

Which is a track entitled Steals, Dave Spoon. Track 12 is Wasted Love. In here, disc number 1, which is Hype on the Track. Liking this one, nice vibe to this. Okay, so I have my headphones on, so I'll drop it in there. Oh dear, get my right timing. Okay track, finish off here, track number 13 from disc number 2 which is All I Want Is You, the extended mix, Ed Lee. Don't forget there is a link in the description to CDPool and if you are a DJ in and around Europe and you're interested in CDPool, there's not only a link there but also, oops sorry, keep on knocking the stand, there's a bit of a code there. So what you can do for a first time user, for the first two months you get 50% off your downloads, terms and conditions apply, it's not for everything. But don't forget I'm just showing you a small part of...

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