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Beat Matching Tutorial, Getting It off Beat on PURRR-POSE!

Lesson Intermediate Stage 3: Beatmatching November 2008

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There's one thing I did right at the beginning there, and it's something that I like to do sometimes. It's sort of messing around with the actual beat. Now if you noticed, I was moving the pitch down, up, down, up. Now this particular type of effect is more for someone who's a little bit more knowledgeable on beatmixing. Now what I was actually doing, I knew roughly where the pitch should be. Now, I was moving it slower, as in ooh, and then bringing it fast, moving it down again. I was almost making a tune with the actual beat. If you have a listen again, we'll start it off. Here we go. I'll turn it up now so you can hear. You have a listen? Right, what we'll do, we'll put the track back on the other track. Here we go. What the hell's going on? I'll move it out a bit so you can see. Actually, if I put it here, here we go. And then get it in beats.

What you're actually doing is you're manipulating the beat so it does go off. It will go slower than the beat. It will speed up. But if you think about it, it's like I've always said, think about it logically. Cars, throttles, they're always going to be doing this. So if you want one car, this one here, to catch up with this one, this one's going 50, this one's going 40, and there's this much of a gap. For this one to catch up, it shouldn't go 50. It should go 60. Eventually it'll catch up. Thank you for watching.

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