Bhangra Bollywood DJ Tutorial adding effects DJ lesson on mixing Bhangra

0:01 In this demonstration I'm going to add two effects to a Bollywood Bang

Alright guys, in this demonstration I'm going to add two effects to a Bollywood Bangra-style tune. I'll put the name in the description. First of all, if you're not familiar with Bangra-style music, it's full of vibe, energy, loads of vocals, lots of percussion, lots of melody, there's a lot going on. Right, less is more. Full stop. Less effects, because there's too much going on with the music. It's completely different to EDM, electronic dance music, western style, because a lot of electronic music from the west, there's not much going on in a lot of the track. There may be a very long intro, a very long outro. You could have an instrumental break where there's just instruments. Quite often in lots of techno and trance.

It's very minimalistic, so it's good to add effects and add a lot of them. Of course, if put in the right place at the right time. With Bangra on the other hand, less is more. If you add too many effects, you could ruin the whole vibe of the original track, plus if you're doing Bangra-style events, people probably won't like what you're doing because they're used to the track as it is and they don't want the track being overpowered with lots of effects. So, two effects I'm going to add to this track. Slightly subtle. You'll be able to hear the difference, but at the same time, I am maybe lifting the track up a little bit. I'm not destroying it. Maybe it's a little bit like making soup. It tastes fantastic, but just to make it that little bit better, add a bit of spice. That's what we're gonna do here.

2:19 A part of the track, or when I press on-off

I'm gonna add two effects. One is the delay effect and the other one is the roll. First of all, the delay will... What will happen? It'll take a part of the track and overlap that part over the rest of the track while the effect is taking place, while the effect's happening. The roll on the other hand, what happens there, is when I start the roll, it will roll a certain amount of the track based on the timing here. So for example, if we're on one eighth, what will happen, it will roll one eighth of... A part of the track, or when I press on-off. As soon as I press that, it will start to roll one eighth of a beat. Quarter, it'll roll a quarter of a beat. Half, half, three quarters and so on. So what I'm going to do... By the way, the name of the track will be in the description.

I'll play you the beginning of the track first and then we'll go through the track and I will then play a little bit of the middle of the track. What I'm going to do at the beginning of the track, I'm going to use the delay. And then... Halfway through the track, I'll use the roll effect. So first of all, this is the beginning of the track and I've set this up on a hot cue for good reason. I'll explain in a bit. Here we go. Now, don't know if you can hear but there is almost a bit of an echo at the beginning there as well. Now what I want to do, I want to heighten that echo. I'm actually going to add almost a delay stroke echo to the echo to lift the vibe of that. Part of the track. Then later on in the track, I'm going to add a roll.

But I'm going to add an eighth or a quarter beat of the roll but only a fraction of the roll. I'm not going to go over the top because I don't want to ruin the vibe of the track. So I'm going to give you a demonstration first of me adding the delay and then I'll explain exactly what I did. So here we go.

4:18 What was happening there?

Okay, so what was happening there? What I did... I pressed a hot cue and the on-off on the effects at the same time. Then I pressed the on-off of the effects And then I pressed the hot cue again. So what was happening is as soon as I press the hot cue, the track started and I pressed the effects on off at the same time. So as soon as the track started, the effect started at the same time. While the track was playing, I then pressed the on off effect. so what I did then, I stopped the effect. So for a small amount of the time the effect was being played while the track was being played and then the effect stopped working and then I pressed the hot cue again and of course that went back to the beginning of the track

So I'll just show you again, here we go so together, effect off, together effect off, together, effect off together, effect off, together, effect off now again this is only one way of doing it. What I'm going to do now is play a little bit of the track now again if you're not familiar with Bangra style there's a lot going on the percussion is big in Bangra also what I was doing on the effects, you saw me tapping here I was tapping to the beat and that made sure that the effect then was in time with the track now I'm going to hit roll, just going to tap again I'm going to hit 1 over quarter, sorry 1 over 4 which is a quarter now I'm going to count and watch me hit the on off which will engage and disengage the effects

One two three four, one two three four, one two three four that last one may have been a little bit too much but what I was doing, I was hitting that in between the count of 4 and 1 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 again it's about timing and practice alright I hope that's been a help don't forget, you know this is just one idea this is one track, this is one mixer I could probably do a year of tutorials like this of tutorials and demonstrations on adding small effects to the likes of this track alright have fun and you give it a go practice and enjoy, thank you

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