Beginner DJ Lesson on Best Time to Increase the Speed of a Tune in a Mix

0:00 Where can you speed the track up?

Alright guys, there's a question that's asked, I would say twice every single week, is during the course of your mix, where is the best point to speed up your track? Where can you speed the track up? Beginning, middle, end, should you speed it up during the mix, after the mix, before the mix, maybe not after the mix because you've already done it, but I have just, while I've been talking, got that track to go just a tad faster. Maybe some of you might have heard that, for the partially sighted, what I was doing while I was talking, I was bringing the pitch towards me, which will of course increase the speed. We're now at 127.3, if I go back down to the centre point, it's now at 120 by the way.

The track you're listening to is When My Baby Calls, the original mix, and the track coming in is Hitchcock Blonde, and the second track here is absolutely amazing. Got that from Zip DJ, and it is, seriously, I would say it's one of the best tracks I've heard this year, and that's saying something. I hear a lot of tunes. This one here, bit of a sample, you must know the bass line as well. Okay, so when is the best time to speed up the track prior to the mix? Well, I don't know if you can see, but the one you're listening to at the moment, When My Baby Calls, is at 120 BPM. Centre point here for Hitchcock is at 120. 128. Now, there are a few things we can do while the one track is playing. You can slowly increase the speed, and we can bring that up to 128, but it is sort of noticeable.

There, it is noticeable. The other one you can do is at the break. Now, you're doing two things here. One is there isn't really a beat for people to concentrate on, so they're less likely to hear the track speeding up. But also, when you do increase the speed in the break, you do two things. One, of course, you increase the speed. The other one is you enhance the break. You make it feel a little bit more vibrant, a little bit more euphoric, so we can speed it up during the break, which is now.

2:31 It isn't as noticeable at all

It isn't as noticeable at all. Okay, we're at 128, exactly the same speed as the other track.

The other thing we can do, bring it back down, is we can maybe increase this speed. Very slightly, to 124. And then, even before the other track started playing, we could slow that one down to 124. There you go. So now, they're both at the same speed. We'll just bring the camera down a little bit, like that. There you go. Okay, we'll knock this one forward a bit.

3:24 I've got my cue point ready

I've got my cue point ready. Coming back to this tune. It's so good. It's so vibrant. So uplifting. I've checked out, there isn't a copy on YouTube. I've had a look. There is Hitchcock Blonde on there, but it's some lady singing the pop version.

So uplifting. This is just truly an amazing tune. And the remixer, just top man, top buzz. Let's bring it up.

Notice there as well, I brought this track to its original speed at that tiny break. I'm just going to bring it forward a bit.

There, just change it. Listen, check this out.

Amazing tune. Absolutely amazing. You've got to hear this in true stereo, okay?

Yeah, it's Hitchcock Blonde 80 Empire mix. Absolutely brilliant. All right, I hope that's been helpful. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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