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Beatmatching practice using the jog wheel
On YouTube this video is called Complete Beginner DJ Lessons Video 22 Beat Matching Practise Using the Jog Wheel
What this lesson teaches
The practical follow-up: he knows the right deck is slightly slower, so he fixes it, and then he breaks it on purpose.
Nudging it forward
The right side is slow, so it falls behind. To catch up, nudge it clockwise - forward - and hold the nudge until the two come together.
While you do it, listen to the phasing change as the hands slide back over each other.
The cars
His analogy again, and the version worth remembering: two cars set off nose to nose, one travelling slightly slower than the other. Give it long enough and the slower one is a long way behind - not because anything changed, but because a small difference in speed accumulates into a large difference in position.
Leave two tracks a tenth of a BPM apart for long enough and they end up audibly, hopelessly off.
Then he does it wrong
This is the part to pay attention to. Having got them together, he moves the jog wheel the other way and exaggerates it, so the phasing disappears entirely and you are left with a clear, ugly echo.
His words: that is the sound you do not want.
And that is a genuinely good teaching decision. Most lessons only ever demonstrate the target, which leaves a beginner able to recognise success and not failure. You need both, because in practice you will spend far more time hearing the wrong sound than the right one, and you need to know instantly which of the two you have got.
What to practise
Both directions, deliberately. Push it together, then push it apart. Then together again.
You are training your ear to map a sound onto a hand movement, and that only comes from doing it in both directions enough times that the connection stops needing thought.
Contents of the video
0:01 Big shout out Lenny Fontana
Right guys, video 22. Now again, I'm using Lenny Fontana track entitled True House Stories and this is from Karmic Power Records. So big shout out Lenny Fontana. Thank you very much my man. On the right side, I have decreased the BPM very slightly. Left hand side is the same BPM. So what we're going to do in this demo, I'd love you to practice this, is just practice using, sorry, practice in using the jog wheel. Now, I know that the right hand side is slower than the left hand side. So if you've looked at a previous video, you should know by now that... To nudge the track forward, I need to move the jog wheel clockwise. So I'll give a demo first, then I'll explain what was going on and why I was indeed moving the jog wheel. Here we go.
0:55 The right hand side is an Audi, the left hand side is a BMW
Okay, so as in previous video or previous video, I think it was 20, I showed you and demonstrated that phasing sound. So what was happening is the right hand side, because the BPM is lower, it was of course slowing down. So if you imagine... So the right hand side is an Audi, the left hand side is a BMW. And you know, all of a sudden their nose to nose as they start, which they were indeed when I press play. Because, and let's imagine as well, they can go from zero to the speed they want to go in an instant. Then the Audi, let's say was going 49 miles an hour, and the BMW was going 30. So over time, sure enough, the Audi... The Audi will cover less distance than the BMW. If you leave it for long enough, then of course, the Audi is going to be way behind the BMW. So if I'd have left these two tracks for long enough, you would have heard them go definitely off beat.
But what I was doing is I was moving the jog wheel clockwise just to nudge it forward. And you should have heard the phasing sound. Now the phasing sound was changing. That's because like my hands, the one hand is slowly starting to move to show the other one underneath. What I'm going to do now is I'm now going to move the jog wheel on the right hand side in the opposite direction. So if you imagine clockwise is speed it up, anti-clockwise is to slow it down. Now what I'm going to do now is over exaggerate the echo sound or the phasing sound will completely disappear very quickly.
And go into an echo. Here we go. There you go. That's the sound you don't want. Give that a practice, practice and enjoy. Thank you.
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