DJ Advise Helping You Sort out Your Music in to Folders BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 To a few people who used

Right guys, back home and my first video is helping you how to put all of your tracks together. How to make sure you've got them in the right crates, in the right folders, enabling you to get to them more quicker. First of all as well, I'd like to explain to a few people who used to say I wouldn't get anywhere doing these video tutorials. But anyway, on a lighter note, first of all, have a look at this. One easy way of starting off your folders. We have house, we have pop and we have old. You could put another one there being R&B or soul, you could have of course another one. Hip hop, you could have another one. Rock, heavy metal, it depends how far you want to go but this is a very basic idea. So I don't know if you can see that.

We have for example house. Now in that folder you can have subfolders, for example you could have techno, trance, you could have electro house, pop, popular music, new and old, very simple, all the stuff that was in the top 40. Let's imagine we're looking at say UK top 40 but it can be the popular music in your country as well. Now I would class new music as being the tracks, let's say from the past month or two months. Anything after that, maybe you want to slip them into the old folder. Now again I'm thinking out loud there is another folder that is great to have and that will be the top tracks of today. So what they're playing on the radio, what people want. So a good idea to have a folder top tracks.

2:04 Give yourself a rule, maybe only 150 or 100 tracks in the top folder

Now that folder could chop and change quite often. The last thing you want to do, this is where it starts, where you start confusing yourself and me, of course because I get confused all the time. Is when you start putting lots of tracks into the latest folder like the stuff you have to play. It gets to the stage where it's so full it gets confusing again and you're back to square one. So give yourself a rule, maybe only 150 or 100 tracks in the top folder. So when you put one in, sorry but one has got to go, boot it out. All right. The other one then is old 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. You could also you could have the likes of say old school disco in there as well and old school reggae. All right. Let's look at the sub folders.

So pop again, you have new and you have old. You have say dance tracks from pop. You have rock, you have R&B. You could have country in there. Then we look at the likes of old so old we have 90s. We have pop from the 90s, dance music from the 90s, hip hop from the 90s. Don't forget you have 60s so you could have near enough the same. You could have dance tracks from the 60s. You could have hip hop, well not hip hop, hip hop from the 60s. Well it's one for the money, two for the show, three to go, sorry and dance as well. Mind you there were a couple of sort of dance-y kind of tracks but it was more on the lines of soul style hip hop. Oh look, you know what I'm on about so shut up. Calm down. All right. Sub crates here, you could put them into key and also BPM.

4:05 Maybe 110 to 115 is more your charty kind of popular songs

Now what I want you to do with this video is just get ideas. Don't follow this step by step. Get ideas. BPM. So for example, you could have a whole bunch of hip hop tracks or a whole bunch of say old school pop tracks that are more slow BPM now. Or BPM. Also short for beats per minute. The likes of hip hop, around about 90 to 100 and 304 BPM. So maybe 110 to 115 is more your charty kind of popular songs. Female vocals, cheesy intro, cheesy outro and lasts about three seconds. If you want to put them in key go and check out the Camelot wheel. You have B and A major and minor keys. So I hope that's been a help now again. It's about working out your tracks. Also, what you could do is you could have once you've done all of that,

You could then put all of those folders into two folders that are very important. One is stuff that you always play and the other one is stuff maybe that you don't. Now, this video is about giving you ideas. It's entirely up to you how you sort your tracks out. But one major point, and this this is something that you'll probably scratch your head afterwards and go, I get it. Try not to confuse yourself with thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of songs because you may think the more tracks I've got, wow, look at all these songs. Isn't it wonderful? I've got millions of them. But you may confuse yourself because you may not be able to find them. Of course, there is software out there. For example, the likes of Serato, Traktor, Virtual DJ.

We just have to type a little bit of the track, the name, the artist. And that will come up. But if you haven't got that, then of course, if you're digging through files and folders, it may take forever. So word of advice here, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, chart, pop, dance, whatever. Go through them all and be honest with yourself. How often have you played that track? Never? Then get rid of it. Don't chuck it away, burn it or delete it. Just put it somewhere like the never used folder. You know, cobwebs on it. All right. I hope that's been a help. Any more information? Chuck it down there and practice and enjoy. I do. Thank you.

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