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0:00 Video number two for you on where to put tracks in the mix

Right folks, video number two for you on where to put tracks in the mix. In other words, I did one this morning, I classed as a slightly more advanced tutorial. Basically if you think about it, generally a mix is you play one track and at the end of that track you bring the next one in, so at the end of the second track you bring the third one in, the end of the third track you bring the fourth one in. Now again, my first thought is this is slightly more advanced. But in a sense I suppose it isn't, because even if you are a new DJ, this is the way of looking at it, if you're a new DJ and you stick to the formula of play one track, wait till it finishes, play the next one, wait till that finishes, play the next, then fair enough you may get a good set. But if maybe you try to look inside each individual track and maybe find a place in that track that is suitable to mix in the next track into, in other words, halfway through the first one...

And maybe start the second one halfway through. Or maybe even, yeah, you know, you're within say 16 bars of the first one and there comes a point you think, wow, I know a track that would work really well at that point. Then maybe you can start to form an even more interesting set. Now, by the way, look in the description to the side of the video for the names of the tracks. We'll class this as track 1, class this one as track 2. What I'm going to do first is play you the end of this track. By itself, then I'm going to play the end of that track and mix in the beginning of this track, which is theoretically a stereotypical way of doing a set, like I said earlier. What I want you to do as well is comment on which mix you think was the best. Was it crap? Was it a waste of time? Was it good? Was it average? Did you prefer mix say number one, number two, number three? Because what I'm going to do, play that one like I said first, the end of that one, and then I'm going to play the end of that one and bring in the beginning of that one.

1:52 Just chop and change but I'll explain what I'm doing as well

Then the next mix, I may say, play this one halfway through and start this one at the beginning. Then maybe I could start this one, have this playing towards the end and bring this one in halfway through. Just chop and change but I'll explain what I'm doing as well. So first of all let's listen to the end of this track, here we go. Very good transition between the one and the other. Okay so we'll bring this one back, here we go. Right, is this going to be mix number one?

He beats one off a little bit. Right, this time what I'm going to do, we're going to go halfway through this track and then I'm going to bring in the beginning of that track. Right, let's try something different. Keep in mind as well, this track is relatively similar all the way through. So again, what you may have to take into consideration is the track you want to mix in is completely different all the way through. Now I'm going to bring it, I'm going to bring it in that direction. That was mix number two. Mix number three, I'm going to go into the centre of this track and I'm going to bring in the centre of this track, which is this part here. Here we go.

Uplifting. What I could do, if I was looking at the crowd and I think they need an uplifting part right now, I could bring that in. Bosch. Family's band. Three mixes, all slightly different but it just shows you, you don't just have to end beginning, end beginning. Have a go, comment, see what you think. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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