Be a Child Once More and Imagine Tracks in Folders BY Picturing an Image in Your Mind DJ

0:00 I have yet to be convinced to turn over to the dark side

Alright guys, welcome to my mad world and yes, I do now have the DDJ-1000 from Pioneer, but that is not it. That is still the XDJ-RX number 2. I still like it. I have yet to be convinced to turn over to the dark side. I'm not saying that the DDJ-1000 is the dark side, it's just that I like this, but I still need to have a little bit of a twinkle and a dabble more with the 1000. Right, in this video I'm going to be playing every single track from the Underground series from CDPool March 2018, but that's not it. This video is helping you, or hopefully it's going to help you. Get tracks in the correct folder. Now, top three. Numero uno with mixing is in key. Alright, I don't care what you say about phrase mixing or beat matching or all that sort of stuff.

If you can't mix in key, if you can't find two tracks that work harmonically, then you're going to get really sticky situations. That's when vibes are going to change in a room. So really, my top three. Number one is learn how to mix harmonically. Even if it's off beat and off phrase and everything, if it mixes harmonically you will still have a nice kind of flow. The next one of course is in beat because you don't really want train wrecks. So if you can get it harmonically matching in beat, you sort of, not quite, you sort of bang on the money. The third one of course is to phrase mix correctly. Now I do give online lessons, personal private lessons via either Skype or YouTube. Or Facebook. Private message, one to one and if you're interested then there's an email right down there and get in touch.

The lessons are strictly confidential, I do not give any information away. I have taught all age groups from everywhere around the world. So far, touch wood, I have not had any complaints. Although there's been a few people that have said well, you know what, we just want more lessons, great. Okay, not saying that I'm not doing a bad thing or I'm not doing a bad thing. It's that they just enjoy it. Alright, so this video is about pictures in your mind. Now let's go back to when you were at school and the teacher told you to stop daydreaming because you had some wacky idea of an invention in your head about, I don't know, a spaceship or maybe your treehouse, you were going to add something inside it. That no longer seems to happen much, not the treehouse or the spaceship.

2:47 I am now telling you to use your imagination

In fact the treehouse and the spaceship when you become an adult because you're told not to use your imagination. I am now telling you to use your imagination. I want you on your laptop after this video to compile four, five, six, seven, eight, whatever, how many folders? Now each folder can be a feeling. You can have a happy feeling in one, you can have a deep feeling in the other. You can have an angry feeling in the other. It's up to you and have those folders, have in your mind a picture, an image. Now I believe I've made a video on this subject in the past but definitely not as much. I'm not going to go into too much depth. This is going to go really deep. What I'm about to do now is play the tracks from the entire underground CD pool March 2018.

There will be a link in the description right down there that will take you to the cdpool.com website. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to play the tracks and I'm going to imagine them in my own folders. So do they make me feel happy, sad, anxious, depressed, downright bored or are they crap? I don't know because a crap song to me could be genius to you and a genius song to you and a crap song to me could be a mellow song to someone else. It's about how you feel because if you think about it, if the song I don't like is mellowed to someone else then maybe every song I don't like will be mellowed to them. Who knows? It's about your personal experience with the songs. Let's play track number one and this

Is Arthur, a track entitled Runaway. So how does this make me feel? I'm going to skip through them as well. Right it's got a bit of a bounce. I've got almost like a deep happy kind of feel so I would have a folder deep and happy. Deep and happy because it's got that but it's also happy. It's got that little kind of sample of a vocal you know it's nice, it's quirky, it's charming. I can imagine someone listening to that you know with a dagger behind their head drinking. Drinking a small little pipette of champagne. Oh look at that! Oh my god, right so let's have a listen to the next one. Let's go over there. This one here is Take Me Home, the original mix and don't forget every single track I play will be on the website snippets of with all the information

Because I don't give you any information do I? Okay here we go.

5:28 It's a bit of a chugger isn't it?

It's a bit of a chugger isn't it? I'm just picturing greyhounds running now. Don't know I've got that image in my mind. Images, greyhound running so I could class this as what would I class this as? Deep and moody. Deep and moody alright so that's going to be my deep and moody folder you watch I'm going to forget all these folders now sorry. Alright let's try this one here hold on stop right and the next one. Now we've done that one so this is Culture Shock East Block. Let's have a listen okay okay bit of DMV. How does this make me feel? Funky. It's got that just funky riff in it wow yeah okay so that's my funky one. Okay Danny Howard and Guzz All That Dancing is the next one let's have a listen.

6:59 Most people say what am I on about anyway don't care

Starlight I'm picturing here deep it's almost like we're getting very deep but it's still got that kind of chuggy sort of feel so what would I put here? What would this folder be named if I or a name of a folder if I put this into that folder? Chuggers there you go. Not Cheggers Place Pop that's an old one can't show my age now do you remember that? Cheggers Place Pop oh my god if you're from America you'd be going what the hell is he on? Most people say what am I on about anyway don't care. Right so the next one now is Kaleidoscope Hybrid Minds Remix Radio Edit. Probably won't play all of these because I don't really want to just rag this video on but I want you to get the idea where I'm coming from please.

You don't want to come where I come from. That isn't even a good idea press play and track select on there here we go. Deep and Moody bang straight away Deep and Moody okay Deep and Moody all right so this video isn't finished since I stopped playing the tracks there's another part to it don't go away okay the next one here now is it's entitled Enchanted Forest interesting deep I am picturing a burrow here like you know an animal deep burrowing underground I'm just picturing something burrowing really fast underground it could be a good video this couldn't it you know burrowing burrowing no I'm not on drugs mind you I'll tell you what the sound of a large glass of rum after this sounds a bloody good idea I'm going to right after this video I am going

To get a glass of rum hold it up take a picture put it on Facebook and say there it is well whatever okay. So yeah like this one all right let's just do another random one so I just don't know what I'm going to go to there and I'm going to put that there press it over. Let's have a listen to this one bump and grind baseline rhythm extended mix rumble rumbling. I'm getting a rumbling kind of image.

9:30 Funky house, goes track, tracks

Okay so why all these images why these different names of folders and what the hell am I doing I'm standing up you fool right so how can I put it a lot of people do work off images for example when you see someone and you think they look funny you know maybe you've got this funny image in your mind of all of them suddenly growing ears at the top of the head and you just try not to laugh but quite often. Imagery helps you remember and if you can remember imagery then it makes it easier to remember the tracks. And also put the tracks into images now I'm not talking here about getting a folder and filling that folder with the same key of for example 100 tracks in a one a two if using the camelot. wheel or F sharp if you're not I'm on about putting a whole bunch of tracks in

A folder based on the image that they give you and the vibe and energy because here's the key when you are making a mix what you want to do is you want to keep the vibe going in the mix now if you have listened to those tracks correctly and if you have worked out the imagery those tracks have given you and you put them in the right folder then by all rights all of those tracks should in a way mix together because they've got the same vibe and feel now try this once you've done that once you've got 100 tracks 50 whatever 10 20 then if you want to put them through mixed in key or put them through a program will find the keys for you and have a look do an expert have an experiment try an experiment and see if there's similar keys or they'll actually work you could

Find a pleasurable experience there it could be something that could be interesting for you because it could be a load of rubbish then again they might be I've done that where I've gone no I'm not gonna put anything in key I'm just gonna listen yeah like that I'll put that in the funky house folder no funky house folder I do not like that type of music I'll put that in a funky house mute funky house folder and so on and so on and so on and eventually I've got a whole load of tracks that have got a similar disc kind of funky house feel and then I found that I'm able to just have a good old mix not track two into one three into two four into four into three five into four and so on but I have been able to skip through the tracks and go yeah

Great I'll start with track one and track seven goes into track one amazing and track four goes into track seven and track 20 goes into track four and track 17 goes into track twenty but halfway through you see so give it a go and I will finish off with practice and enjoy thank you very much now I'm gonna go cheers

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