Demonstration, tutorial Mixing Acapelas and using cue points

0:01 Acapellas and mixing acapellas in

Alright folks, now this particular video, bit of a demo, bit of a tutorial, whatever really, take it how you like. Now we're going to look at acapellas and mixing acapellas in with other tracks. Now first of all, what is an acapella? Because loads of people probably don't know. Well if you imagine some really dodgy pop song and you've got loads of things going on, you've got some wacky woman or bloke or cat, dog, animal, budgie just singing along. And all of a sudden you take away all the music, well you're just left with the budgie. Just being silly. The person singing, well that or in a sense as well the person rapping, MC, that kind of thing, well that's the acapella. In other words, no music, just some person talking or singing, that's it. What you can actually do is you can incorporate the likes of an acapella in with another piece of music. Alright, they've got to be the same BPM, they've got to sound well together, but...

1:21 Hot cues on here where I

It sounds good if you do it correctly. Now what you can do then is take it to the next level, whereby you use hot cues. Now if you've got hot cues on your player, you can take the acapella as it stands, chop it up and mix it about and mash it up, add some potato and tomato sauce and some avocados and... No, don't really want to do that. And you can make it sound a little bit better to the next level. Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to put the names of the tracks. That direction, but the one you should know is Madonna. This one here you probably won't know. You'll have to excuse me, my nose is runny. God knows why. Anyway, right, so what I'll do, I'll play this track here. Of course what I've had to do, I've had to make sure that the two tracks are near enough the same sort of BPM and I'll show you the hot cues on here where I set them, but let's just have a listen to the track first that I'm going to mix the acapella into.

Right, there you go. Now what I'll do is I'll put the camera there so it's a bit closer to that area there. Let's have a listen to the hot cues. First of all I'm going to press cue. Now by the way, on these players... If I just press cue, keep my finger on the cue button, the music will carry on playing. As soon as I take my finger off, it stops playing. I'll just show you. See? But if I press play pause, the music will carry on playing. Press that, cue. Now what I've done, I've got A, B and C. Excuse me, hot cues. The first A is near enough to the beginning of the track. Let's have a listen. B and C. Now also, what I can do, I could do something like this. Now did you hear that? Every little time. Now watch this, volume.

3:08 In other words, every little time, volume up and down

So in other words, every little time, volume up and down. Now I have done this. Hold on, let me try it again. Here we go. So in other words, what I've done, I've almost started to edit the track every little time. See? You can have so much fun. Now what I'm going to try and do is make a fool of myself as usual, but I don't care. I'm going to put that one over there, or sorry, the acapella into this one. So here we go. Oh, wrong one. Again, loads of people, what they tend to do with acapellas, they'll play the entire thing which probably will sound very good but sometimes less is more. That's what my missus says. Right, so I hope that's been a help. Bit of a demo, bit of a tutorial and maybe I've just wasted a few minutes of your life. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. Where's the off button?

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