Beginner DJ Mixing Lesson and Some Dance from CD Pool January 2017

0:00 First of all, this is going to be a demonstration or a mixing demonstr

Alright guys, time for a demonstration, also a tutorial and we're going to do a few new releases from CDPool. Alright, so what we've got here is track number 2 from disc number 1 and track number 3 from disc number 2. Now, first of all, this is going to be a demonstration or a mixing demonstration. Now, this track here, or both of them, are sort of in between, I would say, a radio version and an extended version. Because it's weird actually, your radio versions are on about 3 and a half minutes, your club versions are on about 6 minutes. These are actually 4 and a half minutes and getting on for 5. So we're in that borderline, not too long for a radio version but not quite long enough for the club version.

Now, the Martin Jensen track we have on the left hand side, solo dance club mix, by the way, check out the link in the description that will take you to CDPool where you can get more info on this CD or these two CDs, they're the dance CDs for January 2017. So if we have a listen, now there's a lot of going on here, it's what we would class not as really a big room tune but it's big. There's... It's... It's full. A big room tune is your high energy kind of lots of piano and full-on.

I suppose it is a big room really, yeah, there's a lot going on here.

There are very few points in this track where you have space to form some kind of smooth transition. So what I'm going to do here is a very basic cut from one to the other. We're gonna go to Galantis which is track 3 on disc number 2, a track entitled Pillowfighter. Pillowfighter is the extended mix. So...

1:58 Crossfade, point start, transition

First of all I'm going to do a mix that I think is okay but it's a bit too full, there's too much music going on from both sides. The next one I'm gonna do a mix but it's more going to be a chop so the mix will be on my headphones and then the chop you will hear. So let's just go to my cue point that I've set up just before I'm going to start to bring in Galantis. So crossfade over on the, no in fact I'll put the crossfade in the middle so I'm going to be using the up fader. So press play, let's go to my hot cue, right bring it in there, halfway through the night dance floor is buzzing, that wouldn't be too bad but we can make that sound a lot better just by doing a straight cut. Okay so I'm going to do exactly the same thing this time I'm gonna use my crossfade and instead of doing a smooth cut.

I'm going to do a smooth transition with the up faders, I'm just gonna move the crossfade from the left straight over to the right hand side. So let's go back to my cue point again.

Start. Okay so Galantis is on my headphones.

3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, EQ's the same.

Very simple sort of transition. So bearing in mind you know a transition isn't. It's always about 8 bar mix where they're both working in tandem and you've got loads of time to twiddle with your knobs and mess around with effects. A mix, a transition can be how you want it to be but also it's based on the tracks telling you how they want to be mixed. Something like this, both may work but one may work better than the other in different environments. It's about using your ears and finding what suits. Where you are at that time. Track 3, disc number 2, Galantis.

Alright let's find something from disc number 1.

4:38 We're gonna go towards the end of Galantis

Okay we're gonna go towards the end of Galantis.

Okay I'm going to do that again because I should have brought that out sooner. Right let's go back to, where are we? Galantis, no wrong one. Hold on where was it? Lost it, there we go. Okay let's go back again.

7:17 It's like making a cake

4, disc number 1. Bang straight out. Okay let's find something else from disc number 2. I've got the camera right there. Okay I'm going to bang this to the end. Track number 9, Olly Murs, disc number 2, Years and Years. Jack Wings remix. Set the loop on the left hand side. Filter it out. That was a lot better, definitely better than the second mix but again it's about experimenting. Sometimes you can have like 20 tunes, you could do 1 into 2, 2 into 3, 3 into 4 and so on. But somewhere down the line you may realise that 1 into 4 is better and then 4 into 2 is better and 2 maybe into 7 is better. Alright it's about trying. It's like making a cake. You've got all the ingredients. All the ingredients is there for that cake.

But if you add a little bit more fat or a little bit less of the eggs or more flour, you'll end up with still a cake but it could taste better. So it's exactly the same with tunes. Track 9, disc number 2.

It's not the tune, it doesn't give it a word at all. Completely kind of changing the vibe there. Alright, it was sort of a transition but it was one of those transitions where I'm not bothering to beat match it. It's like well let's just fade that one out and bring a new tune in. A mix like that can sort of change the mood, the vibe, the energy at the floor as well. We'll finish off here with track number 8 from disc number 1. These are the dance releases for January 27 CD Pull. Check out the link in the description and I'll finish off with practice and enjoy. I need your attention.

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