Beginner DJ Mixing Demonstration and Some New Dance Tunes from CD Pool January 2018

0:01 Track 1, disc number 1

Alright guys, some new releases for you. Dance January 2018. Also, a few tips and tricks here. Track 1, disc number 1. We're going to bring in track 1, disc number 2, but with a little bit of a difference. So let's just do this. I'm just going to change this to plus 10. That's the pitch. Background, the melody, drop the pressure. Boots going on on the right hand side. That works, sort of seems to complement the track. Okay, this one here, track 1. Disc number two, track entitled Go 2.0, The Felon Remix. Just skip it forward a bit. Okay, let's go towards the end of this track. Track three, I Got Music, extended mix, Earl Duke. Okay, I'm going to pause that for a second because I want to explain something here. It's a good way of, let's say...

2:27 Covering up a slight mistake

Covering up a slight mistake. Don't know if I did it there, but let's imagine this scenario. On the right-hand side, a track's playing and you're ready to bring in the left-hand side. The track on the right is, let's say, one bar into a phrase, two bars or three bars, I don't know, seven bars or five. Those numbers are relevant because they're not really... Don't bring the track in at the correct time in phrase with the other track. Of course it's always a good idea to start bringing the track in on the second or fourth bar, so at least you're sort of a quarter of the way or half the way through the phrase, depending of course on the phrase being 8 or 16 bars. Now that is very relevant. On the other hand...

If, let's say, you bring the track in or you accidentally think that you need to bring it in at a certain point when it could be the third, the fifth or the ninth or the seventh, then a good way around it is to form a loop on the deck that is playing. Now the reason for that is that if you don't and you accidentally bring in the other track on the wrong bar, the odd bar, the third, the fifth or the seventh, And play the mix together, what will happen is the listener, the good listener, the guy or lady with a good ear will be able to tell that one track has finished its phrase out of time with the other one. On the other hand, if you form a loop, just a two bar loop and let that play over the mix and then slowly fade that two bar loop out.

4:46 That in as great a detail

Then you're almost covering your tracks. It's almost as though the listener won't be able to hear the change in the other track or the track that is leaving the mix because what you've done is you've given the listener a two-bar loop inside that phrase somewhere that hopefully will complement the mix a little bit better than letting the phrase on the right hand side disappear. Out of time with the phrase on the left hand side. Now, I've tried to explain that in as great a detail as I can and hopefully you get it. Alright, let's go back to track three, disc one, I Got Music. Okay, this one here is track number two. Tracking to House Party. Now, in a way that was sort of kind of like a good drop. So listen, if we go back to that drop, now the break in track three, if I just pause it there, we're sort of like getting towards the drop.

There. That's where I needed to bring it in, because this track here, track two, which is House Party, does not start on the one. Two, three, four, one. Sorry, sorry. Two, yeah. One, two, three, four, one. Yes, I beg your pardon, it does start on the count of one, but there's actually, what the producer has done is added one bar before, let's say, that phrase starts. So what we can do... is I can cut out I Got Music one bar before the drop, add that one bar in on House Party and then we get a good transition and we keep in phrase with the mix. So let's just go to that hot cue there. One, two, three, four, there. So that's where I'm going to drop it in. Okay. There, bang. Hope you get what I mean there. Okay, this one here is track two, disc number two. Another drop.

Track 5, disc 1. Again, big room music, loads of piano, loads of in-your-face. Track 5, disc 1, track entitled Dreamer.

8:12 I just thought that's Axwell in Grosso

Okay, I just thought that's Axwell in Grosso. I'm hoping that that doesn't get flagged by YouTube so I'm going to stop that one just in case because it's so annoying when you sort of compile some kind of demonstration tutorial and then YouTube go, sorry we've flagged that, you're playing naughty music and we're going to block it in Germany or something like that. From a camera and go and play it as a gig. Who's going to take music from a camera, 30 seconds of it and play it as a gig? I doubt it very much. This one here is track number 11. We'll finish off with this from disc number 2, a track entitled Slow. It's the CID remix. Don't forget once again you can check out all of these tracks via the link to cdpool.com. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

Another good tip for you as well. Let's play that at its original speed, which is around about 126 BPM. If you want to get more vibe and energy into a track without doing any kind of effect, speed it up. Make sure though you've got master tempo or key lock on, otherwise it'll sound like the Tweenies. Listen. There, more energy. This is what it sounds like with master tempo off. See? That sounds terrible. There you go. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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