Basic DJ Phrase Mix Demonstration Tutorial

0:01 Let's go through a basic mix

Right then, let's go through a basic mix. We've got a track here called The Calling. It's the original mix by And Then and that's on that side over there, the left-hand side. Then on the right-hand side we have a track entitled Fantasy Deeper Purpose. Okay, so just play a little bit of the cuts first. They're quite chuggy, got a bit of beef to them. Sort of underground house style-y. Sorry for the ones with ADHD or whatever you call it, not having the decks said correctly. Is it ADH? Oh, God knows. Alright, so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to do a basic phrase mix. Now again, we could do a very simple sort of beginning and end mix. So let's do one of those which is box standard, wait right till the end, skipping through the track.

We're at 40 seconds. Just waited pretty much till the last phrase, slowly bringing the other track in, playing both together, not touching bass, middle or treble. Can you hear the bass line of the left- right hand deck? Sorry. Okay, I'm going to do that again, exactly the same this time. We're going to filter out the other deck. So let's go forward again. What I'm going to do, if I set off cue there.

So the last phrase was around about 30 seconds. Sorry, missed it.

Bringing it in.

2:56 Let's try something different this time

So what I did there, I basically just sort of filters the other track out before it finished. This is quite important. You don't want to sort of filter it, sort of you're halfway going through the filter. Then it cuts out because you do get in the background that abrupt finish on the other hand. If you slowly filter it out before it finishes, then it will naturally sort of disappear into the background. Let's try something different this time. What we're going to do, we're going to go back a couple of phrases, then start this track. So let's go back. So this is our original phrase where we started, which was around about 30 seconds. Just sort of there. Okay, so what I'm going to do now, if you think about it, if that was about 30 odd seconds,

4:42 Slowly bring the right in

Then if we go to- if we double that, I think it was about 32, 33. So double that, there. So what you're listening for as well is a change in the track. It's almost like you're traveling from one city to the other. And in the middle, you go through a big town. So that's almost like, you know, a strategic point that, you know, I'm halfway there. Okay, so that's what we're listening for. Again, if I go back a bit more, have a listen. There. This time, I'm going to take the bass out on the right hand side. Slowly bring the right in. I'm going to do a slow bass swap. Okay, so the demonstration here is- what we're trying to achieve is a phrase mix. Now, if you're not familiar with phrase mixing, there are a million and one videos at literally-

It's got to be now, got to be a million and one. All right, maybe there's 9999 and one. That's a million. Okay, anyway, 999,000. Yeah, all right, fair enough. But what I'm trying to explain here is if you randomly throw one track into the other and it may be in time and in key, it'll sound all right, but then generally when you're playing any kind of dance music, the people listening like to listen in blocks, in sections. So there's nothing worse than having a block and then a third of a block and then an eighth of a block or a quarter or one tenth of a block as you bring in the next track. Whereas if you have a section and another section, in fact, you know, for example, eight bars and eight bars, then you're bringing the track in,

Not only in time and in key, but also in phrase. Now again, bit of a random short video here. I hope that's a help. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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