Beginner DJ Lesson on a bass Line Chop Using the X Fade

0:00 We're using a couple of new disco tracks

All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is a very basic demonstration stroke tutorial on chopping one track into the other. We're using a couple of new disco tracks. The track you're listening to is Deep Inside. It's the original mix by Vintage Culture. We're going to be mixing in another track, new disco style-y, Grey Cells, the original mix, Sonic Future. The whole idea of this video is to show you how you can mix using a chop. If you've got two tracks that have got similar bass lines, but also the one track you're bringing in pretty much starts with a bass line from the first beat. So you're listening to Deep Inside. Let's just go over and have a listen to Grey Cells. You'll get exactly what I mean. I'll press play.

0:43 There, the bass line starts straight away

There, the bass line starts straight away. So what we want to do is we want to just go bang straight from one track into the other. Now this... Form of transition is very good if you're mixing the likes of hip-hop, R&B and soul. Because in hip-hop, R&B and soul, quite often the tracks are very short. You've got very little amount of... well, you've got very little breaks to mix the next song in. So by using this sort of technique, you can pretty much chop from one to the other. Now also, these tracks are not beatmatched either. So even if your tracks aren't beatmatched, using this technique, you don't even have to do a beatmix. You can go from one to the other. First and foremost, very important.

If you look at the LEDs here, they are a different height. So you need to make sure the LEDs are the same height. That means that the track coming in will be at the same audio level of the track going out and or vice versa. If you don't do that, then you could have a dip in the sound. Alternatively, you could have a peak in the sound which may make the transition a little bit rough. Okay, so again you need to think about bars, timing and phrasing. Try and bring the next track in at the beginning of a phrase. There. That was pretty much it. All I did, I made sure that the two sliders were all the way up and I used the crossfade from one side straight to the other. So very, very simple transition but it works.

2:13 I haven't touched the pitch

Now I'm going to use this in a mix now. My hands are here. I haven't touched the pitch. Let's have a listen if I try to mix them in. Let's even start this one at the beginning. Alright. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Okay we can clearly hear that's not going to beat match at all but again we'll do that sort of transition. Bring that forward slightly. Let's bring it in there. Four. That's it. Very simple. Don't forget as well. As soon as you move the cross fade over while you're moving the cross fade over, hit play on the other track and make sure as soon as that track comes in, the other track is out of the equation.

In other words no sound whatsoever. And then you can pretty much do whatever you want to do with that volume. thank you very much for watching practice and enjoy give it a go great way of doing transitions with hip-hop r&b in seoul this is new disco styley practice and enjoy

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