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DJ a Simple Way on How to Add NRG to a Mix Urban CD Pool April 2018

Lesson Intermediate Stage 5: Musical Craft November 2018

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0:00 More new releases from CDPool Urban Style April 2018

Right guys, more new releases from CDPool Urban Style April 2018. A couple of things though, you'll see a few pieces of vinyl in front of you, I'll be reviewing them very soon. They're from a company called White Noise, it's the White Noise EP, Da Bomb EP over there, and White Noise EP, if you're into hardstyle, go and check those out very soon. And also, right in the centre, yes, I have got a little bit of what's known as the mini-rig. Now, believe it or not... That is a powered bass cab and that is a powered speaker. Now you can use the mini-mini rig just by itself. Alternatively, you can use it in conjunction with a bass cab. Now this is self-powered and if you charge them fully and you play them all day they're going to last.

I think it's around about 12 hours, maybe even 24 hours. So what you're about to hear now is the sound from the mini rig. All right, so I'm going to go to track... I think it was track four because I've had to listen to these and there are quite a few tracks I like. If you want any info on these tracks, please check out the link in the description to CDPore if you're in... To your R&B, your soul, your hip-hop and also your underground two-step, sort of 4x4 house music, then look no further. Towards the end of this video I will be giving you a demonstration and a good way of mixing and cutting two tracks in together. This one here is a track entitled Done For Me. Alright, let's skip it forward a bit. Now that's a nice full sound. I'm having to shout a little bit.

The bass cab is facing you. And there's the mid to top cab. Again, with the urban releases, you know, you've got all kinds of sort of, you know, a bit of deep kind of soulful R&B, more melodic, maybe a little bit more underground. You have got the likes of Jay-Z on there, DJ Khaled, Cleek, Conductor, DJ Snake. It's not just like, oh my goodness, I've never heard of that artist before. There are very, very well-known artists on this compilation. Alright, I'm going to go to number six. This one here is entitled Only You. You see, they give you an idea of the style. Some very mellow, some a little bit more deep, in your face, and as I said, some with explicit lyrics that we won't play today. This one here is Go Freddy Go. One of my favourite tunes on it...

3:17 Track number 14 because I'm going

Is this one here? Make me feel. It's explicit, but I'm not going to play the naughty words part. Have a listen. This is really, really weird, but I like it a lot. Very experimental, but this just drops, you know? Love it! What a tune! By the way, she said share carpet there. Okay, so what I'm going to do now, I'm going to go to track number 14 because I'm going to show you something how we can cut from one track to the other. Now, again, what I'm trying to do with these videos is not only preview the tracks but also give some demonstrations and tutorials as well. This one here, I love this track. This is entitled Pieces and it's just got a nice kind of vibe, very uplifting, but the bassline is to die for, big time. It's a similar move when it just drops. This is the radio version by the way. Oh! Man, that is just bad.

At the moment now I have got both sides set. The pitch is set to plus or minus 10%. So what that means, to make it very easy for everyone to understand, let's imagine I had a track at 100 BPM. In other words in every minute you would hear 100 beats. At 10% you can increase or decrease the speed by 10%, so up to 110 or down to 90 BPM. Now I'm now going to put the tempo to plus and minus 16. I'm going to increase the speed quite dramatically. Now let's spin it back a little bit. Now what I've done, I've given a track that's already got a shitload of energy even more. I'm keeping the master tempo on so the tone, the key of the track stays the same. The only difference is it's now a lot faster. Here we go.

5:59 On the right hand side now bump and grind

Let's give it so much more energy. Let's put it back. Okay, alright on the right hand side now bump and grind. Right, first of all what I want to do is get these two the same BPM. Alright, so listen. The B in big is on the count of one in a bar. So what I want to do here is, and I'd like you to practice this, is where we're cutting the tracks in and out. So big bad bassline song. So left side is on and I'm going to flick over using the crossfade both up faders all the way up and I'm going to press The track plays off, the track goes back to here. Listen. Now, so what I can do, I can edit that track in over the other one. I'll give you a demonstration. Here we go. Let's go back. I'm slightly off there. Thank you very much. Don't forget to check out the link in the description. All I did at the end is I changed the vinyl speed adjust. So when I press play pause...

Get a hold of me. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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