Best DJ Lesson Ever Part 4 with Tutorial

0:00 This is the best DJ lesson ever, part four with a slight difference

All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is the best DJ lesson ever, part four with a slight difference. It's an actual demonstration stroke tutorial, but at the same time, it's a little bit of an insight into what goes on inside my mind. The track I'm using, by the way, is from Mr. Kenny Hectic. It's a track entitled I Don't Know. All the info on this track will be in the description along with how you can get it and how you can find out more of, well, where you can get more of the great tunes from Mr. Kenny Hectic. Right, so let's have a listen to the cut first of all. Nice chugger, very soulful, house-styling, bit of garage. Also what we've got here, which I like about this track, it's very deep, very soulful.

But at the same time, it's got that rattling good old fall to the floor. See, he's got it. He's got that nice sort of deep vibe with a bit of soul like it. I can imagine this on a rather large sound system just throbbing the dance floor. Okay, so what are we going to do in this tutorial? Well, first of all, I've got the same track on the other CDJ. I've set the tempo reset to engaged. So now... Wherever the pitch is, it doesn't matter. It's going to be the same speed. What I've done is I set hot cue at this point here. I've also set the cue to there as well. So have a listen. Of course, as you know or you don't know, but if you don't know, I'll explain. When you set the cue to a certain point, if you press your finger on the cue, not on play pause, the track will play from the cue point.

But you have to keep your finger on the cue for the track to continue playing. If you take your finger off... If you take your finger off the cue at any point while the track is playing, the track will stop, but the track will go back to the cue point. Get it? Hopefully you did. If you didn't, just rewind and have a listen.

All right, that's all well and good. But what we want to do, we want to jazz that up a little bit. So let's add an effect. So I'm using the echo. I've got the level depth to 12 o'clock. I'm going to engage the echo. The echo is now on an eighth. Have a listen.

2:44 Let's put it to a quarter so you can have a listen

Let's put it to a quarter so you can have a listen. Half, three quarters and one over one. Which isn't really that good for this demonstration. There's no point having it. You might as well do something like this.

All I'm doing there, I've just got the volume up and slowly bringing the volume down. Same with half really. Less than half. That's half with the the echo engaged. This is half with no echo with me just bringing the volume down. It's sort of the same. Right, okay, so let's play the track. I've got the effect engaged. And I'm going to go to three quarters first of all. Now what I've done there is I've crossed over to the other side and I've tried to have the three quarter but only a tiny amount of the three quarters. It's almost like I've tried to imagine dum cha, ba ba, da da. Not a one two. Almost like a ba ba which is the three quarter. What a three quarter does, it chops up the beat. Not in the correct way. So let's try that again.

4:25 Time signature is the track

Time signature is the track. We're almost chopping it up as though we're getting three quarters of the beat. Right, now have a listen here. I'm going to cross fade over a little bit more this time. Three four one two three four. Listen. And again. And again. Reverse. Okay. I've set it to reverse. Have a listen. You see? By one action you can get a completely different sound. Reverse. There I had the cue on slightly longer. So we've got a different sound. Tiny change. Again. Okay, so very simple but also exceedingly intricate. It's depending on how much you press the cue. If you just tap it, you will get the echo for a tiny amount. Have a listen. Here we go. Okay, tiny. Tiny echo. If you keep your finger on that long

Longer, you will get more of the sound echoing. Have a listen. Even more. All right. So by this one action, by this one video, you can elaborate on this immensely. Very simple. All right. But the difference between that and this is devil in the deep blue sea. All right. So let's have a little bit more of a listen to hectic himself. Okay, let's just come on. Do it properly. Sorry. Other one. Just go forward a bit. Okay, right. Let's just turn this. This is the other part of the video where we go into talking about certain things. And I do have a firm belief that the powers that be out there are trying to control you and make you do things that you don't actually want to do. Now, a good friend of mine mentioned

About food and what we eat. And it's more about the lifespan of people. Now, I'd like you to just take this on board, have a think about it. And you can decide yourself whether you think what I'm saying is correct or incorrect. Many years ago, the lifespan of people wasn't that long. It was probably an average depending on where you lived, maybe 20 years, maybe 3040. If you got up to 40 or 50 anywhere around the world, you were just really old and you'd done well. But today, people are living a lot longer. And of course, there is the thought that well, if they're pumping you with all this crap, then and you're living longer, isn't that a good thing? So by the action of them pumping you full of crap, it can't be crap because you're living for longer. Think about it. Years ago, you didn't have decent medicines or anything like that. So you didn't really live for that long. Yet today, because of good medicines, you're living longer.

But that's my point. Medicines, it all boils down to money. If you think about it, if you weren't living for a long time, then they couldn't fill you through full of medicine, which means that they wouldn't be making any money. So by the action of them feeding you full of medicine makes you live longer, which means because you're living longer, they can give you more medicine, which means they make more money. I hope that makes sense. It's one of my thoughts out of many. But anyway, enough of that. This is video number four in the best DJ lesson ever. Mr. Hectic, sir, thank you very much. These are absolute monstrous garage tunes. And if you haven't heard of Mr. Kenny Hectic, I suggest you go and check him out. Thank you. Don't forget there'll be info on this track and all the others, including links how you can get hold of them. Practice and enjoy.

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