Beat Mixing for the new DJ. Tutorial

0:00 Track, beat, concentrate mixing

Alright folks, it's Jonathan here. Now in this tutorial what I'm going to be doing is showing the new DJs out there a good way of beatmatching just the beats. Now if you listen to your records, your CDs, your PC programs, what I want you to do, I want you to find ones that have got a long intro and a long outro. In other words, there's quite a good part of the beginning of the song where there's just a beat, and there's quite a good part of that same track where there's a beat at the end. So what I want you to do, I want you to just concentrate on mixing the beats beginning and end. In other words, one track plays, at the end of that track there's a good beat. Then just concentrate on mixing the end of that track with the beginning of the next one where there's just a beat. Now a lot of DJs, once you know how to do that, a lot of DJs will listen to the individual songs and they'll bring say the second track in halfway through the first track.

1:19 You'll get the general idea

The third track may be a quarter of the way through the second track. In this one, what we're going to be doing is just concentrating on mixing the beats. Now then, on this track here, this is the one that's going to be finishing. This track here, this is the one I'm going to be bringing in. This track here, the last 30 seconds there's just a beat. This track here, about the first 30 seconds there's a beat. Start here at the end of the song, then I would theoretically only have 30 seconds to mix it in, to get it in beat etc. which wouldn't give me enough time. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to bring this one in about say 10 seconds or so before the last 30 seconds of the beats start with this one.

Or the outro. That gives me a little bit of time to mix it, get it in beat and then get them both together. You'll get the general idea. Now this is just a tip. Remember, new DJs out there, just concentrate on mixing beats to begin with, alright? So what I'll do, I'll plug... Where's that blinking plug gone? I'll plug this in here so you get better audio. Right, bear with me. Example in the world. But basically, if you can imagine, you want to get a set together but you want... Hold on, let me just pause these now. But you want the set, well I don't want to say not necessarily work, of course you want it to work, but you're not particularly bothered about trying to gel and meld vocals, melody and bassline. All you want to do is just match those beats. That's all you've got to do. Find records, find CDs, find programs with just...

Beats, a good intro at the beginning with just a beat, a good outro with just a beat and just join those together. And then by doing that you can get a nice good set together and it's also a good way of teaching yourself how to beatmix. Alright, thanks for watching, practice and enjoy.

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