Beginner DJ Lesson on Timing and Beat Matching by Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 We've got a track here called Sent Under

Alright ladies and gentlemen, we've got a track here called Sent Under. I'll put more info on this track in the description. This video is about helping you to beatmatch. The fundamentals, it's getting your internal clock in time, in tune with the track you're playing. How do you do it? Well all you need is a roll feature on your PC program or on your piece of hardware. So, this is what I'm going to do. I've set the track onto channel number 3. I'm now going to press 1 over 1 and I'm on the roll effect. I'm just going to tap in time with this track. Okay, we're not finished yet. What I'm going to do is I'm going to press Q. When I press Q, I'm going to engage the effect by pressing the on or off.

So all we should hear is just a... Tap. A kick. The first kick, so...

That's it. Okay. What I'm now going to do is I'm going to transfer that to channel 2. All I do there is I turn channel 2 up and I can bring channel 3 down. Press channel 2 here. There. I'm now going to press 4 over 1. So that will give me one bar but it'll also give me a gap. I should be able to only hear one kick. Two, three, four. Two, three, four. Three, four. Now, I'm going to bring up the volume on channel 3 again and I'm going to try and add to this one kick inside that one bar and try and make sure it's in perfect time. Three, four.

2:03 The more you try and think, the less it will come into play

Now a bit off there.

Alright, you get the idea. Now, you could spend hours doing something like this but what you've got to try and do is a tip. It's not... Think about... Think about what you're doing. Just let it happen. The more you try and think, the less it will come into play. The less it'll actually work. So this... It's difficult to say this takes practice because this is something that you should try and do maybe once or twice a week. You should be able to do this while reading a book or watching a film. So almost like your subconscious is taking over and doing the job not you. I think that's the key. You don't do it. Inside here does. Alright, now I'll play this in the background. This by the way is a track called Scent Thunder.

It's a really nice deep tune. Like I said, I'll put the info in the description on the clever gentleman who made the track. Alright, so it's quite poignant this video. If you look up there, I had this delivered today which is YouTube 100,000 subscribers and to be quite honest, I'll be honest with you. Three or four years ago, I used to think, wow another 10 today and 20 and 30. Now, I do care but I don't. I don't sort of avidly watch to see exactly how many I've got. I haven't got the foggiest but it was a nice experience to get that and I probably should have got it a while ago because it's...

3:50 The channel name is after my daughter, Ella or one of my daughters

I don't know but it's over 100 at the moment now. Anyway, it's Fort Ellerskins. That's the name of the channel and for anyone who doesn't know that, the channel name is... The channel name is after my daughter, Ella or one of my daughters. Sadly, that's a daughter I don't see and her brother also I don't see, Ryan. So, I'm going to dedicate this video to Ryan and Ella and I miss you terribly and I think again, a lot of you who've started watching me recently see children run around everywhere. One of them is mine, my own child, Blaise, the other two are my stepchildren but I do actually have other children that I don't see and that was from a prior relationship. The split was very difficult and I went through the court system

And the court system pretty much took Ryan and Ella away from me. I don't really want to say much more, there's no need to say much more but what I would like to mention or express, explain is that I miss my kids deeply. There's not a day... It goes past when I don't think of them and I would like to dedicate that to both Ryan and Ella because I love you immensely and I want you to both know that the door's always open. Come and see Dad, I love you and like I said to Ryan many, many years ago as I was bringing you up, I would never lie to you and I haven't and I want you to think about this. Let's imagine that you broke a window. And you came to me or I asked you if you'd broken that window and you said no when indeed you had broken the window.

Now, when I found out or as soon as I find out... No, sorry, I'll start again. I can't even be sensible. All right, here's the deal. This is how I feel about just trying to... Well, this is how I feel about True Hard God. I'm not going to edit this. Sorry. All right, Ryan and Ella. Ryan, I told you a long time ago that I'd never lie to you and here's the deal. Let's say one of you had broken a window. Right, let's get this. You came to me and you said there's a window broken. It wasn't me when it was you and I found out eventually it was you. Well, I would no longer be annoyed and disappointed about the window breaking but actually be more annoyed and disappointed about the fact that you lied to me if, on the other hand, you'd broken the window.

You came up to me and you said, Dad, sorry I've broken this window. I'd be really pissed off about the window breaking but I would admire you for your honesty for coming to me and telling me that you did it in the first place. So bear that in mind and that's pretty much been my philosophy for a long time. So Ryan and Ella, I've never lied to you, okay? Come back to your dad because I miss you immensely so does the rest of the family. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy. She got there in the end. Nice one, thank you. I love you, Ryan and Ella.

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