DJ How to Change the Style of Music During the Night

0:00 Maybe they're playing like funky soul music and you're playing Gabba T

All right, so you've got a gig in a nightclub and the DJ before you is playing a completely different genre to what you're playing. Well, how can you mix it in? How can you beatmatch it? How can you make sure that there's some kind of flow? Now, let's imagine the DJ before you is playing hip-hop and you're playing house, or the guy before you is playing drum and bass and you're playing techno. Well, maybe they're playing like funky soul music and you're playing Gabba Techno. How on earth do you mix them? You can't, can you? Well, you sort of can. It's very difficult to beatmatch them because you're going to have different BPMs. But using this kind of technique or hopefully something like this will help you in a little way.

You'll be able to understand more how you can get a good kind of transition. So, two tracks I've got. On this side, it's Urban Dawn and Krakota, a track and title Focus Shift from Hospital Records. And on the right-hand side, we have Disco and Philip Ramirez, a track and title I Want to Fly. So, let's have a listen to a little bit of the Focus Shift. What sort of stuff have you got in your room?

1:20 Let's have a listen to the I Want to Fly

Yeah, kids.

OK, let's have a listen to the I Want to Fly. It starts off like this.

OK, it's quite a long introduction to this one. It's sort of like very mellow. So, we're going to chop this up a little bit. Let's have a listen to the track itself if I skip it forward.

Oh, oh, come on! I'm feeling that. So, let's try and mix these two in. Just not going to happen, is it? It's not going to happen unless you do something like this. Let's go towards the end now of the Focus Shift. So, the guy before you is playing a completely different genre to what you're playing. Now, what I'm going to be doing here is, and this is very important, the first track you play in your set, whether it be house, hip-hop, drum and bass, techno, trance, it doesn't matter. Try and make sure it's a track that's got a mix of both. It's a mellow kind of intro which is just instruments. There's no beat, all right? We don't want any timing. We don't want the listeners to think, ah, here's the timing.

One, two, three, four. You don't want to start with a kick. You don't want to start with a hi-hat. You don't want to start with any sort of percussion. Just a sound, really. I thought you meant sounds. So, let's just... Do it again. Oh, shit, sorry. Set a cue point there.

So, this is the guy that was on before you. You're going to change the genre.

3:42 Where was the beat mashing?

Bang! Where was the beat mashing? Didn't exist. Where was the transition? It was in the music, the vibe, the energy. So, that's really what brought the two genres together. I hope that's been a help. There will be info on these two tracks in the description. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

Actually, this is the instrumental version.

The vocal version is even more sexy. Baby.

I want to play.

Hallelujah. Nice to meet you. Brothers. We're the winners.

Loving it. Practicing and enjoy. Thank you. Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo.

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