Beginner Mobile DJ Tutorial on Mixing Pop Music

0:00 Firstly, this video is predominantly for the mobile DJ

All right, ladies and gentlemen. Firstly, this video is predominantly for the mobile DJ. Secondly, at the moment, the only reason I upload in poor quality is because I've got a very bad upload speed of 0.37 megabytes, so it would take ages to upload in HD, but very soon I am getting super fast broadband. Thirdly, I'm using the Pioneer DDJ-RX. Fourthly, the tracks are not through software, or sorry, they're not through rekordbox software. Fifthly, I'm not using any headphones. Sixthly, you'll be hearing bits and pieces that you would normally hear on the headphones. Seventhly, this video is going out to Ryan Lewis, my son. Sort yourself out and come and see your dad. And eighthly, hello Nicole. Ninthly, I need to go to the toilet. And tenthly, let's do this video first.

Right. So, hopefully as well, YouTube won't flag this video because I'm going to be playing some commercial music. Oh my God. But this is for training purposes. I'm not here for people to download this music. If you want to download these tracks with me talking, then what a fool you are. Right. Katy Perry last Friday night. No, I'm not going to do. In fact, I'm not going to touch those pitch controls at all. So imagine you can't mix at all, but you want to try. And keep the flow of the tracks during the course of the evening. Then, first and foremost, you need to make sure that the tracks you're playing are in key or the keys that match. Secondly, you want to try and find points in the next track that follows the track that's playing. Try and find a point where you've got the beginning of a bar or a phrase. So, Katy Perry.

1:55 Towards the end of the track here

Okay. Let's go towards the end of this track.

Okay. Okay. Towards the end of the track here. There. All right. Now, let's find another track. I think I was going to do bulletproof. We'll put it on this side. Okay. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to set a cue point. Now, what I'm doing now here would be what I would do, say, on my headphones. So, the crowd would be listening to Katy Perry. I would be listening to this and I'm going to give you a sneak preview by letting you listen to it as well. Aren't I kind? Right. So, I'm going to set that cue point there. But if I was really critical, we've got up being done there. If you listen, hold on. Let's go. No, we're not going to go that critical. Okay. So, I've got two cue points and there. So, all I'm going to do now is just chop it straight in. I'm going to make sure the crossfader's engaged. Mrs. Patty Carey.

I'm going to talk over this now so YouTube... Can't all of a sudden say, look, you're playing Katy Perry and we should flag this because you're playing music that you're not allowed to. Ooh, isn't that terrible? Because people could copy this now and like play it out and have me talking all over it.

3:40 Some people would go, that wasn't really a mix

Okay. Now, some people would go, that wasn't really a mix. Well, it wasn't a mix. What it was though is keeping flow and vibe and making sure that people don't leave the dance floor. All right. So, if I was more critical and wanted to do that again... What I could do is I could bring or brought it in there. Let's just try that. So, there. Something like that. Similar bit of a chop but I'm not touching the pitch. This one here is 125.8. That's 123.5 so they would not have beat matched at all. Let's find something else here. Yeah. S&M by Rihanna. Okay. So, let's just stop.

Stop that. Have a listen. Okay. There. I'm going to hold that point. Now, what I'm thinking now as well is this time, bulletproof. That's all I'm going to do. Nothing else. That's what I'm going to do. So, that's it. That is it. Some people will be looking at this video thinking... Other people will be going, hmm, it's as simple as it looks here. It's finding a cue point in a track. And chopping it straight over. Now, there is actually with this style of cutting. There's no need for me messing around with bass, mid, treble, gains... All right. Yeah. All right. Gains to get the levels correct. But you don't have to start chopping around with the low, the mid and the high. Just chop from one to the other.

You can do it two ways. You can use the up and down evaders or you can use the crossfade. I hope that's been a help. Important factors make sure the keys match or the keys work together. And the other one is try and keep the timing. 1, 2, 3, 4. So, the track that's playing is 1, 2, 3, 4, 1. The next three coming in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 and so on. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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