DJ demo, going from 1 genre to another, how to do it.

0:00 This video is all about changing from one genre of music to the other

Right folks, Jonathan here. This video is all about changing from one genre of music to the other. We could have lots of situations where this would happen. For example, let's say you're doing a mobile gig and you're playing some house and all of a sudden someone wants some 60s. Well you can't really, well you can mix house into 60s logically if it's the same key and the same BPM. But if it's a different BPM then it's going to be very difficult. Also, let's say you're playing your set After the other DJ and he or she happens to be playing hip-hop and maybe you want to play some house music. So how can you change genres but at the same time, which is very important, try and keep the continuity of the music? That basically is the key word. It's the music. It's the actual tone, the key, the feel of the track. Now this is basically a demonstration.

1:20 You want to start doing

But, let's say for example, I don't know, we were going to mix, we were going to say play some soul. And all of a sudden, we wanted to play some house. So of course the trouble is, soul music is very slow. You know, you're looking around about 100 BPM, 100 beats per minute, 100 BPM. House music, you're looking more so, I don't know, 120, up to 130, maybe even 135 BPM. So there's one heck of a difference. The last thing you want to start doing is wanging the old pitch control on the R&B or the soul like that and the house and try messing about. The best way of doing it is just chop, bang from one straight through to the other and then you can go straight into the other genre. Alternatively what you do find some DJs they will have the turntable playing, you can do exactly the same with the CDJ turntable and they'll press a couple of buttons so it just goes

2:19 Track

Dead stop, gap, silence. So the public know there is a break and then bang, straight in with the next genre. But of course when you're in a mobile situation, you can't really do that. So mainly that idea is for let's say if you're doing a set next to someone or after someone else's set. So I've got a bit of a demonstration for you here. Look to the side of the video for the tracks. But this track here is Space Brothers, Heaven Will Come. What I've done, I've got it set up, so it starts like so and then we've got this track here. So I'll give you a sort of idea how we can go bang, bang, straight from one style, straight through to the other. The track on the actual Vestac CD player is some breakbeat and then we're going to go into like this Euro house style. So let's see what happens, here we go. Say for example, this track here now is the last track

From the other DJ, and I'm about to start, I'm going to wang this one in. We can do it quite a few ways. I was listening to the bars, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. I listened to the timing and I wang that one straight in. Now alright, we may get a few people looking thinking what the heck's going on, but the whole idea is to keep the continuity going where the music is concerned. Now, if you've got any other ideas and you have any other ways of changing from one genre to the other, bung them underneath. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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