Dj help Mix lesson 4, Remember the beat will go off!!

0:00 I want you to listen, okay?

Alright folks, I'm going to do a bit of a mix for you here using two records. What I want you to do, I want you to watch what my fingers are doing, okay? I want you to listen, okay? And I want you to take note of when the beats sink, okay? First time I do it, I will put my hand over the record when the beats sink, but after that point they will go off again, okay? Then what I will do, I will do it again, okay? And the second time I will actually start to increase the speed Therefore, keeping them in beat. Okay? Just watch a second. Right, we'll put this one on. We'll put it about there. And then we've got this guy over here. Now as soon as I start to play this, this one's going to be too fast. These two records are roughly the same speed anyway. There. Now they've gone off again. Okay.

1:38 What happened there, as you could see, the record caught up

What we'll do, we'll just wing this one back. Okay, why did I do that? Okay, now then if you think about it, the principle with the cars, okay, you've got one car say for example going at 30, the other one at 35. The one at 35 is going too fast, the one at 30 has got to catch it up, okay? So the one at 30, if they both go off at the same time, what I was on about in a lesson quite a while ago, and that is the one that's going at 30 has got to go to 40 or 45. Now while it's actually... Driving at that speed, there's going to come a point when it's going to meet that car. It's going to actually meet it. Now at that precise point, it can't, cannot, it's physically impossible for that car to all of a sudden go from 45 to 30 like that. It's actually got to slow down. Now what happened there, as you could see, the record caught up. It actually caught up, the beat caught up and for a split second they were together.

Okay, but because I left it, it just went off. It went off and it didn't keep in beat, okay? So what I'm going to do now, the reason, okay, we're going to start bringing the pitch control back up again, that's the point at which the car is slowing down. It's slowing down and it's catching up to stay at level beat, okay? Right, so we'll do it again, okay? So that's there, that's in the same place. So what we will do... So we'll bring this one back up. Okay, and we'll do it again. Picks in beat. See I've got it now. Okay, we've virtually got it. Okay, now that is the most intricate, And most, finest point of actual beatmixing. This is where so many DJs fall flat on their arse. It's because the two points there, if you noticed, twice I got that record in beat. Okay? This is where a lot of DJs, beginners or whatever, what they do, they think they've actually got the record in beat. They have for a split second. But then again it will go off again. If you think about it like two clocks, they go tick-tock, tick-tock. Eventually...

3:44 Speed

They will tick together and talk together, but because they're not identically the same beat, eventually they'll go off. So what did I do? The first time, I lowered the speed until it matched beat and left it, and it carried on going off. In other words, the two cars, the one, if you think about it, 30, the one at 35, the one at 30 has got to catch up. And it catches up at that point, if it's going at 35, but then it just continues going, OK? To reach the same speed is to slow down again, and that's what I did. It reached the same speed on the turntable the second time, and then I started on this incident, I started to speed it up, and then it caught up, okay? Sorry, I hope I'm pointing it in the right direction. It caught up, okay? If that doesn't sound logical to you, then please let me know, because I could have made a few slows and ups and downs quite incorrectly, but...

It's easy for me to work it out, but sometimes it's actually quite difficult to explain it. If I have made any explanations wrong, I do apologise. And if you do need any more information on this, this is quite an intricate one here, then send me an email or give me a comment and I'll get back to you. Thank you for listening. Bye bye.

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