CD Pool Dance Preview Video Aug 2009( with DJ Tutorial)

0:00 Another demo stroke tutorial for you and we're looking at new releases

Alright folks, another demo stroke tutorial for you and we're looking at new releases from CDPool. In this video we're looking at the dance releases for August 2009. Kicking off here with track number one from disc number one. First of all people are always asking me how do you cue up a track? Where's the best place to cue it up? And how do you get it perfectly in beat on the first beat? Have a listen to this. Now listen to that beat. The beat is quite a movement there. There's almost an eighth of a turn of the platter. Get it on that first tiny, tiny, tiny sound. That's where you need to cue it. First lesson, track one, disc one. As ever, these are preview videos giving you a general idea of what to expect on the Twin CD and if you want more information on this one, The Dance, issue August 2009, follow the link in the description and that will take you to CD4. I'm going to wang this one forward a bit.

1:30 The next one's gonna be track 1 from disc number 2

The next one's gonna be track 1 from disc number 2. Whang this one forward a bit. Alright, what I'm gonna do now is have a bit of a mess around with the beats. Now normally we bring in this track here in time with the bars but on the count of one. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. What I'm gonna do is like off beat. I'm gonna bring it in on the count of two but not leave it there. I'm just gonna have a mess around. So bring it in on the count of two, let it play for a couple of beats and then stop it and start it again. And I can do that by just touching the cue. Have a listen. Tiny bit, very subtle but it works. That's good. Track one, disc number two. Whinging saying, oh here he goes with another promotional video. Well guess what? I'm going to carry on doing the promotional videos but at the same time we're going to incorporate a tiny bit of tutorial in there as well.

5:46 Track number four, disc number one

Number two, we'll wang this one forward a bit. And as usual, you know, if you like a certain tune, give us a shout, let us know, stick it in a comment. Is it good? Is it bad? Is it indifferent? Or maybe you prefer to have your eyes pulled out with toothpicks. Not a good idea. At the moment, I'm just using the up-faders. I'm now going to switch this guy over here so we can use a crossfade. That side now, that channel, that on that channel. Have a listen. I'm going to do exactly the same thing as I did earlier on with the offbeats, but use a crossfade. One then, dun-dun-dun-dun. Track number four, disc number one. Have a nice transition from one track to the other. Two things to bear in mind. One is beatmatching and the other one, try and get the keys perfectly matched. If you want the next track to lift the whole mix, then go slightly higher in key. If you want it to drop down, then you go deeper, then lower it in key. Just very slightly. Transition here. This went forward a bit. Probably went a bit too far.

7:44 Taking the bass out on that one

I'm too close to the end of this one. Yeah it is, I'm gonna go back a bit, hold on, or yeah, back a bit. Taking the bass out on that one. This one's in, straight in. So, I don't know if you noticed there, I just wanged it back a little bit. But what I did, I worked on the principle of the timing and it worked. Hopefully anyone out there could tell that that wasn't meant to be. It was meant to be, it just happened. I just chucked it back, sort of hoped for the best but I worked On the principle of counting the bars. Remember the timing. This one, it sounds to me like you might lift a mix very slow. It's track number seven from disc number one. I'm going to wind this one forward a bit. Seven as well from disc number two. For track number six, take it from disc number two. Don't forget, dance issue, August, CD pool. Go and check out their website. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much. Slightly slower this one. 120 BPM as opposed to 129. Could have beatmatched it if I wanted to, I suppose.

Just make sure the master tempos are on so the key stays the same, but with the master tempo on, yeah logically the key stays the same, but when you increase or decrease the speed, you can increase and decrease the speed and you won't lose that tone. I do waffles sometimes, don't I? By the way, I've actually bought a new dodgy van and hopefully in the near future we'll be able to see it. And it is dodgy because it's got a big scrape down the side. One of them. Thank you for watching!

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