DJ Get the Drop Back in Time After a Spin Back Tutorial

0:00 The tune I'm using is by Fred vs Graphics from Hospitality Records

Right guys, the tune I'm using is by Fred vs Graphics from Hospitality Records. It's a track entitled Cinematic Party Music. There will be information on the LP right down there, courtesy of course of Hospital Records. Hospitality Styli, thank you very much. Very quickly as well, if you're not doing anything on the 7th of October 2017 and you're in and around Aberystwyth then... Go to the Arts Centre because the hospitality crew will be there playing some rather nice tunes along with loads of other sound systems, including my own, The Secret Disco. I'll be there with a couple of mates playing some house music. See you there. Right, so I have here cinematic party music. I'm going to play you a hot cue. Have a listen. Right, okay, so... Actually, let's get back to the basics and let's get to the...

Tutorial now first of all a little bit about this album this album has got a lot of euphoria there's a lot feel there's a lot vibe lot of energy with it and a lot of that is down to the tracks being in the major key so if you're playing a set and it's a bit low and dreary and the people aren't doing much then stick a couple of tunes on in the major key and i promise you you'll notice a difference so this album is very good because what it It gives me the energy as though I want to play the tunes at the last track in the set. So just as people are really getting down, they're enjoying their night, they've had a wonderful set, they've had a lovely experience, put on a tune from this LP and check out first to make sure it's in key, it matches and so on. And if it's one of the tracks in the major keys, then you'll find...

The night will finish with a bang because it's got that hands-in-the-air euphoria. Right, so what I'm about to show you now is how we can just bring back in the drop. Have you ever been in a position where you've played the drop and people are going like, rewind, rewind, and you've heard the DJ go, do something like this. So let's imagine you're listening now. Alright, hold on. Here's the drop. Here's the drop. Rewind, rewind.

2:50 The dancers don't know where they are in a phrase

Now the dancers don't know where they are in a phrase. They're like, oh here it is, and then they get going. Wouldn't it be better to play the drop again in time? Let me show you. So, let's go back. We're coming up to the drop. Okay, let's get slightly more technical now. A lot of spinbacks and how you spinback and what the spinback will do is based on the jog adjust. At the moment I've got mine on about 9.30, which is quite light, which means that a small move on the jog wheel will move it back quite a distance, instead of let's say having it on heavy where a small move pretty much won't move it at all. Now you do have to be careful here because if you're on heavy and you spin it back very slightly and you hit the hot cue,

4:52 Heavy And I tap the hot

Which it should do, snap back into time. I will demonstrate. I'll also demonstrate when you've got it on light and you spin it back and then you hit the hot cue, it won't engage. The hot cue will not engage. So let me show you this. So we'll go to heavy and go to the cue point. Listen. One more time. I spin it back too much. There. There. There you go. So this is of course where skill comes in and of course light of hand, touch and feely. You've got to start understanding how the piece of kit works and using it based on the settings of the kit. So in other words if I go to heavy And I tap the hot cue, it should just snap in straight away. Now on the other hand, there is the third dimension, the middle bit, where you have to, I've got it on 12 o'clock now, where you have to physically stop the turntable and then press hot cue. So what you're doing, you're stopping the music, you're giving the software in there time to go, OK, you've stopped me, where do you want me to start again? At the cue point. So here we go.

Now over time and practice you'll start to understand different kinds of spin backs like a 1, 2, 3, 4, or a 1, 2, 3, 4, a 4 and 1. So what I'm doing just before the count of... One, I am stopping the turntable and then on the count of one I'm hitting hot cue. Now have you been in a position where you've watched a DJ, you've watched numerous sets and all you can see is some guy doing this. You have no idea what they're playing with, you have no idea what they're doing. For all you know they could be just on Facebook chatting to their mates and making eggs or something, cooking eggs. Isn't it lovely to physically see a DJ do things? So that's why I like to see a DJ... So, what I'm about to show you now is slightly more visual and this is what I want you to do. Try and be a little bit more visual in the work that you do. Now I've used one turntable. How about we do two? Can you imagine what it would be like if we had two turntables? So let's imagine first of all we have a track playing on the left hand side.

7:26 In other words, the left side's playing

I'm now going to, with the headphones, let's say get a cue point with the right side. So, in other words, the left side's playing. With your headphones you set a cue point on the drop which I've done here. There, okay. So then you, like I said, you have the left hand play, you start mixing in the right hand side. Once the right hand side has mixed in, that then gives you the opportunity then To get the same track from the right, bring it on the left and set the same cue point. So you can either set it or if you've got turntables like these, you press the button just above bank, the hot cue that's already in the right hand side will flash, press down and that has recorded the same hot cue. So let's go back to our right hand deck. The right hand deck is now playing. You've got the left hand set up. Your mixer should be exactly the same.

9:21 Unless you've stopped that deck, which you can do

Levels, the bass, mid, treble and saucepans should be all in the middle exactly the same. And then as soon as you get to that drop and people say, hopefully they will, rewind, rewind, you can do something like this. So it's... I'm not going to do this again. I missed the hot cue. Okay, now you'll notice as well what I did is I was moving the up-fader very fast. Now this is something that is slightly more technical and a little bit more difficult. Now what I should have done there... is move the to jog adjust to light when they're all the way to light what it means is that the turntable and i will give a demonstration again hopefully you get it right this time it means that the actual turntable itself will spin quite a great deal and it will spin for a long amount of time which gives you the opportunity to use the up fader and go up and down now of course you can't use the crossfade then because

The deck on the left hand side or the opposite side is still playing. Unless you've stopped that deck, which you can do. Because even though it's stopped, as soon as you hit the hot cue, guess what? It'll carry on playing. So let's try and give a demonstration there. So here we go. Okay, so a slight variation of spinbacks. So think of this video as in... It's visual. It's spinbacks. It's drop. It's rewind and it's like I said with the visual, it's you giving some life into your mix, not just standing there and there's nothing worse than this. Let me show you something that you should never ever do in a million years. I'm going to put the camera right bang close. Right so let's just put the camera there like that and put that there.

Right, I want you to listen and watch the mixer. Watch this. What am I doing? I'm moving the bass mid and treble a little bit. And I'm doing bugger all to the music. In other words, I'm wasting time and doing nothing. Don't be a DJ that does that. He makes music and has fun. Do that and not this, alright? This is a bit of a tune. Fred and graphics, cinematic party mix, practice and enjoy. Music, cinematic party music. Practice and enjoy, nice one, thank you.

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