DJ Lesson and CD Pool New Releases Club and Dance April 2013

0:00 Some more new releases for you from CDPool

Alright ladies and gentlemen, some more new releases for you from CDPool. In this video we're going to be looking at the club and dance releases. This is track one, this one from dance releases April 2013. If you want any more information on these videos, check out the link in the description. It will take you directly to your next door neighbour. You can knock on the door and slap them with a wet piece of card and go, oi! No, no, it will take you to the CDPool website of course. Now in these videos as well I... Give a few tips and tricks etc. which I will be doing right now. Right, here it is. This is... Yeah, I did say now, didn't I? Actually, when I said now there was a tiny gap in between now and then actually doing it. There's more of a gap than when I talk so I better do it quickly otherwise I wouldn't have done it now because there'd be such an enormous gap the talking would increase the gap dramatically which means that when I said now it would be like well it was four minutes later.

Here is the first tip. Now, on a lot of mixers you have the level depth dial. What that is there for is to increase or decrease the amount of the effect that's over the mix or over the track you're playing. So let me show you this. Again, track one, disc one. This one here is David Guetta featuring Knee, Yo and Akon. Play hard. And also... Better off alone ring a bell? Right, so what I'm going to do now, I'm using the DJM2000 and I'm going to press the button here that says 2, which of course then will let me use channel 2. So if I use any effect, the effect will be on channel 2. I'm going to use the echo and we'll go a little way through the track. So we can hear that effect. Watch this. Okay, what was I doing? I was using the effect.

2:17 I brought the volume down and we had the echo in the background

But I have the level depth set to 12 o'clock. Now, I brought the volume down and we had the echo in the background. Even though the volume was down, we had remnants of that track at the point at which we started the echo. What I did though, by turning the level depth down to the 7 o'clock position meant that I could cut out that echo completely before... The Echo actually finished. Right, so I hope you bear that in mind. This one here, track 1 from disc number 1. Let's choose another one from disc number 2. Just shut this one in! Comments, you know, tell us what tracks you like, what tracks you don't like. Very, very random demonstrations and tutorials here. Now when you start learning how to mix in key, there are many ways of learning to mix in key. But there are three...

7:06 We're using is track number 7

Of the biggest ways of mixing in key. Actually there's four really. The first one is when you mix a track that is the same key, the flow, the vibe, the feel of the mix will somehow feel the same. When you mix in a higher key, of course a key that works into the key that you're playing, then what you find is the vibe, the feel of the room starts to lift. If you mix in a lower key... ...that matches again, then the vibe will seem to sort of drop slightly. But if you mix in the wrong key, it'll just sound awful, of course. Lungs, tongues, heart, liver, kidneys, awful. Right, so in this one what I'm going to do, I'm pretty sure it's a key that will lift the mix, the next one. So the next one we're using is track number 7 from disc number 2, which is Mike Jolly and Soy Vivan.

In between, the mic jerk mix. Of course I can't see all the readout so we'll carry on playing this but I'll play this towards the end and we'll mix this one in. Hell of a good tune this. Alright, I'll just try that point. Test number two, what I do while I'm talking All the time when they're using the microphone, so they don't talk over

9:48 I'm going to find a point

There you go. This is pretty much a key that's identical and I'm pretty sure I could probably do a mashup with these two tracks. But again, very difficult there because we've got vocals over vocals. Even though they're the same key, it would clash immensely so I need to find a point in this track where there's no vocals, bring the other one in. Headphones now. I'm going to find a point. Alright, again, what we would have done is we would have already constructed our mix. Now also what a lot of people do is they will think in advance. You don't just think, okay, what am I going to bring in to the track that's playing? You want to start thinking ahead. What track am I going to bring in four tracks ahead of the one I'm playing? That makes you a good DJ. Right, so let's play this again. See, I could have brought it in. So what I could do there is just chop it in.

11:57 Slight drop, but then I'm pretty sure it would work

Right. Slight drop, but then I'm pretty sure it would work. Slight change there, so maybe a good option for me there would have just gone, bang that one out and chuck it in. This one here is track number six from disc number one. This is Swiss Lips. Releases this track into the last one. I would automatically feel a lift in the vibe. Actually, it's just really weird. On occasion, I do some random things in my videos. Well, it's about having a little bit of fun. And if you can't appreciate that, then... Go and watch something else. Did you realise that every single minute there is 70 hours of video footage put on YouTube? So if you're not happy with what I do, then go and watch the other 69 hours and so many minutes. I'm going to do a mix now where we're going to have the latter part of track 9 from disc number 2.

Katarina, Ready to Love, the Seamus Haji Club mix. Oh, Haji Club, thank you very much. And I'm going to mix in track one from the club releases which is Rex the Dog. Is it? Yeah, Rex the Dog, Do You Feel What I Feel, the Giorgio Klosman remix. It's on Southern Fried Chicken, just kidding about the chicken, May the 13th, it's released May. Yes, actually it is May the 13th, or yeah, sorry, May 13th, as in 2013. Okay, so... Cue point on one of the beats and just tap the hot cues, and again if you're using software, I'm pretty sure you could do that as well. Well, in fact you can virtually any software now.

17:27 I'm only going to play a tiny bit

I'm only going to play a tiny bit. If you want any more of that tune, go to the cdpool.com website. What I will say though is that is the sort of track that's the anthem style end of the night or halfway through your set where you just really, you want people to like just take their clothes off and go, I feel free and alive! Oh my God! Oh dear, sorry about that. You know, you want them to go, yes, come on! You want them to have organisms where they're standing and...

18:34 To do a mix, what would

Take that thought out of your mind, please, because that's very rude. Sorry about that. So that is the sort of... Yeah, right, that's the sort of track. Now this one here is a little bit more twisted. Again! Track number one from disc number two. Club releases! Rehab, Nari in Milan and the MYNC. Seriously, I do apologise sometimes but I'm actually dyslexic and I do find it really difficult to read. Being truthful there. It was a dark and stormy night. If I was to say there are two ways of doing a mix, or if someone was to ask me if you could choose, only had to choose two ways of how to explain to do a mix, what would they be? Very simple. Well, it's not simple because there's millions of ways.

But the two main ways, the first way is of course to beatmatch something in at the end of a track and then let that play to the end and beatmatch something else in at the end of that second track and so on. The other one is to choose points in the song where you feel it would be fantastic to bring the other track in. Now this sorts the wheat from the chaff. This makes you become a very, very good DJ. This is where construction of tunes, sets and styles and keys really start working well with each other. So by all means just mix one track at the end and the beginning and end, beginning and end, but try and be a little bit more constructive because this is where the mix works. I'm going to try that now and if people think I have all these done, he's written down what track to wear and what to say and do, nope, this is completely random-o-ish.

21:28 I don't know how long this will take but we'll see

I'm going to try it with this one here. What I'm going to do, I'm going to try it with this track here and I'm going to try and find a tune from disc number two and I'm going to try and make them mix musically so not only will this one be halfway through but maybe this other track will be halfway through and try and do some form of mix. So let's give it a go. I don't know how long this will take but we'll see. Six from disc number two.

25:55 I'm going to cut that in during the course of this track

I'm going to cut that in during the course of this track. And I do that by having the volume up on that side, the volume up on that side and using the crossfade. Here we go. Now a couple of things happen there. One is... Stop. One is when I started the track I moved the crossfade straight over exactly at the point where I started the track which meant you got the whole of that... The other thing I did is that I started this track but I didn't bring the crossfader fade over until that cha, so we only got half of the beat. Now this is so subtle, it's like adding that tiny extra little bit of salt and pepper to make your food taste beautiful. How long have I got? Right, I've got another 19 minutes. Sorry, actually this video has gone on for quite a while, I do apologise. So we'll try again in... If you enjoyed it, I'm going to enjoy it as well, and I do.

That's the part of enjoy, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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