DJ How to Find an Acapella in the Music You Have

0:00 Always getting people asking me where do I get acapellas from?

Right guys, always getting people asking me where do I get acapellas from? Where can I get acapellas from? Well, I'll be honest with you, they're probably right under your nose. In fact, you've got some acapellas in your collection as we speak. Your answer is probably no I haven't. Will you have? You may not have an entire acapella from start to finish, but you will, unless you just play minimal house music with no vocals. You should have some form of acapella in one or two of your songs. So what you need to do first is find your tracks where there's a lot of vocals. Make sure you try and find the extended version, and then go to a break in that track. Now if you have vocals jammed, then it's very likely that you won't have a bass line. You may not have a melody. You may have a very slight drum pattern and some vocals. Now believe it or not, even if that only lasts for four or eight bars, you can loop it, and that in a way is an acapella because an acapella is part of the track where a lot of the musical elements have been stripped away, leaving you just the vocals. For example, this here. This is Studio Acapella.

So you can do it Ojele, O-J-E-L-A-Y, spelt O-J-E-L-A-Y. I'm dyslexic, sorry. Entitled Want Your Number. And on the other side I have Public Invasion Project, which is called Teseo. T-E-S-A-O. Teseo. Okay. Anyway, right, okay. Very quickly as well.

The date of its upload tonight at 8 p.m roughly UK GMT I'm going to be doing a live mix via my Facebook page the link will be down there and I'll be playing this kind of music so if you're into your house music come along also if you're not doing anything on the 7th of October 2017 and you're in or around the Aberystwyth area for that matter even in West Wales and you like dance music then come along to Black House that is a dance event taking place in the Arts Centre in Aberystwyth and we have hospitality records there as well as other sound systems so there will be drum and bass there will more likely be dubstep bit of dubstep bit of house music bit of techno bit of trance bit of goodness knows everything I will be there

As well this crazy guy known as Ella Skins with my little secret disco along with a couple of other DJs playing the more twisted bendy side of disco house music so hope to see you soon. there right now I'm going to reduce no I'm not going to do that let's have a listen to the want your number track now I've queued it up at a point where we've got a bit of vocals have a listen now you can hear we've got a drum pattern but we've got a kind of tiny little bit of vocals there there's no melody no bass line and that's what we need that's what we're looking for that's what you should be looking for I'm gonna reduce the base of it now again even if the vocal part of the track only lasts for two or four bars or eight bars you can always loop it again

4:51 Track, acapella part, next

It's about using the kit you have and not abusing it so let's go to get a track I'm gonna go back a little bit to where the bass line was might be nice to bring it in around here by itself okay now my ears are telling me those two quite complemented each other quite nicely because we had a nice sort of rolling bass line along with an acapella or part of the track that can be classed as the acapella part of the track now this I say this many times you know we are so lucky with today's technology because there is so much we can do you go back 20 or so years and you had a couple of vinyl turntables you still could do something like that but you'd have to be very quick about it. so for example right let's look at this as though we're gonna mix the two tracks

I have set a cue point at the beginning of the acapella part of the track I can mix that part in at any time during this track so long as it's in time in phrase and in key what I could also do is set another cue point or even just rewind the track don't even have to rewind it to just press track search back to the beginning of the track press play and then I'm going to go back to where I was and I can start that track wherever I want if I'm using rekordbox software of course I can set cue points and I can set loops as well so it's not about the tracks saying we just want you to start and stop us here it's about you opening your mind looking at the software and the controller or the kit you have and taking it to the next level all right now I hope that's been a help look forward

To the next video and I'll see you in the next one bye for now

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