Beginner DJ Its Time to Go Loopy

0:00 Again, my private lessons are private, I don't divulge any information

Alright guys, during the course of one of my lessons I had a great idea for the student who was having problems beatmatching and after a lot of practice they got a lot better. Now again, my private lessons are private, I don't divulge any information about any student. If you are interested in having some private lessons with me then get in touch, the email will be in the description of this video. So, first of all what I'm using is a track from Mr. Lenny Fontana featuring Alison Limerick from Karmic Power Records. The track is entitled Bye Bye. It's March 2018 at the moment and this tune is pretty big. So, on the left hand side I have a loop of the beginning of the track and on the right hand side I have a loop of the middle of the track.

Now I'm going to give you a demonstration first then I will explain what was happening during the demonstration. Here we go. Now listen, if I don't use the pitch on the right hand side you can hear it goes completely off. Now I'm going to get a piece of paper and demonstrate a good loop and a bad loop. I've done this a couple of times before but it is very important. Now imagine this piece of paper is a loop and if I fold it over and join end to end even though it's not a circle that is a loop. But if that loop is slightly off maybe it's too long or too short. If it's too short then of course if it's too long you're going to have a gap in the middle. If it's too short then of course you're going to have an overlap.

So, that's what you don't want and that's what's happening here. This loop is wrong. It isn't a proper loop. So, what I'm having to do is I'm having to move the pitch to compensate for the fact the loop is not perfect. So, again if I start the left hand side... Using this technique as well, no need for headphones. Just volumes up. Let's press play in time.

2:53 Both at plus and minus six

Both at plus and minus six. Pitches are both in the center position. So with all rights they should stay in time but they're not because the one loop is out of time. Okay so how can we compensate for that? Two ways. One is by moving the pitch and the other one is by moving the jog wheel. Okay. So you'll notice I was moving the pitch. To the minus position. Slowing it down. Now if my movements are correct on the pitch and I move the pitch to the right position every single time that loop starts. Then by all rights there should be no need to use the jog wheel at all. And every time that loop plays again and again by my action of moving the pitch in the same position every time. I should keep those two loops together.

4:09 Jog wheel by itself

Alternatively if I'm not moving it in the right position then I can use the jog wheel. Now again I can do one of three things. I can either move the pitch by itself, move the jog wheel by itself or move them both. So let's do that now and again this is a brilliant way of just learning how to beat match. Here we go. So let's do one, two and three. Pitch by itself. Jog wheel by itself. Then jog and pitch. See I'm not bringing you up fast enough. Let's do jog wheel now. Now let's do them both. Don't touch it and it goes off. Hope that's been a help. Don't forget check out the link in the description. It will take you to Karmic Power Records where you can get more info on this track. Once again Lenny Fontana featuring Alison Limerick.

Track entitled Bye Bye. This is the extended mix and as ever thank you very much. To Mr. Lenny Fontana and of course Karmic Power Records crew for letting me use their tunes in my tutorials. It's amazing because what it means is you know these videos will be on there hopefully for as long as YouTube is and they're not going to get blocked which in turn means that everyone gets some good quality information. Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy. Nice one.

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