Beginner DJ bass Line Cutting Technique Demonstration BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 To do is to find

Alright guys, very random video here but what we're going to do is chop up the bass lines. Just got a couple of tracks on the left hand side, a track entitled Block and Crown by Roberto Stretching and on the right hand side a track entitled Be You, it's the original mix. Alright, really simple here. Well, it is simple but it also isn't. It's relatively difficult. Okay, first thing to do is to find good points in both tracks where you want to cut from one to the other. In this demonstration I've got some bass lines so here we go. Okay, so to begin with for the beginner all you have to do is set a hot cue at the beginning of each bass line. Now this is the important bit. I don't really want to go too technical but I want to make sure that you understand.

1:39 First of all let's do this slowly and I press the play pause

Let me just get rid of that one hot cue there. That's where I've set the hot cue. I'm just going to set another one but just slightly further on. Now I've actually set the hot cue exactly on that line and what I'm about to show you can be done with vinyl turntables, CDJs and controllers as well. So let's have a listen now with my second hot cue. Right, just listen to that. Now that may sound okay to you but listen to the first one I did. You see, the second one is missing a tiny fraction of the beginning of that kick. That's what we want to get so when you set hot cues don't set them exactly on that line, the grid line. Move them a fraction before that grid line and you'll get it perfectly in time. So first

Of all let's do this slowly and I press the play pause. All right okay I'm trying to think out loud as well which is not a good idea sometimes. Very simple what we're doing here, simple I get it wrong whatever, is we're going from one side to the other. Okay now all right yeah a bit faster there but this is where timing comes in. It's about you just thinking about bars and phrases and slowly getting a little bit faster and a little bit faster. So to begin with one two three four one two three four then one two three four one two three four so one two three four two three four one two three four one two three four okay it's very simple all I'm doing is as I'm pressing the hot cue I'm moving the crossfade over as well.

3:51 In great detail so partially sighted

I'm going to explain in great detail so partially sighted you can understand as well. Also I've got the crossfader curve in the center point which is like that's a bit like a cross. What you can do though is set it, I'm using the RX to the right-hand side which is better for cutting and scratch turn tabless because it means as soon as you move the crossfade over a fraction from one side to the other, the other side will come in full volume instead of a natural sort of increase of the volume that you're bringing in and a decrease of the volume that you're taking out from the other side. So if I just give you a demonstration here we can hear that if I slowly take the crossfader we can still hear it and we're around about 95% to the other side and it's gone. There's no natural

Kind of increase in volume, it's just on and off that's it. Okay it's about having fun try experiment yourself see what you come up with practice and enjoy thank you

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