DJ Lesson Be Unique, Take Your Mix a Little Higher, Using an Acap Ella Skins

0:01 Another random demonstration straight tutorial

Alright ladies and gentlemen, another random demonstration straight tutorial. This time we're going to do a shitload of stuff. How can I explain? Right, get a piece of paper and a pen. Go on, if you go. Hurry up. Okay, right, make notes. Okay, got it? Good. I'm going to have an acapella. I'm going to put that acapella over a track. Now, the track I'm going to put the acapella over... It's normally associated with some of the vocals. I will explain because I'll show you. So, what the crowd will expect is they will expect to have the track that they're used to. They will not expect to have the track with different acapellas. Not only that, they won't expect to have the track with anything at all and also

They will expect to hear all the track, but then you'll go into another track. Confusing? I'll show you. First of all, we have this acapella here, which is an absolute classic Kathy Brown, Turn Me Out. There you go. Now the first thing with this particular acapella is it doesn't start on the count of one. One, two, three. You're on my one, two, three. You're on my one, two, three. You're on my... You're on my... One, two, three. You're on my... One, two, three, four. You're on my one, two, three, four. You're on my... Like so. We're going to be bringing in... A track called Float My Boat. Now, if you're not familiar with this, I suggest you become familiar with it because it's the 2-1-2. Alright, so here we go. Now again, hopefully, or really what should be happening is DJs should be watching this video and then you should be taking this to the crowd and the crowd should be going, that was shit hot. Okay? We don't really want the crowd watching this because we want you to show the crowd. So, this is the Float My Boat.

2:45 Roll feature, go to channel number

Now of course what we can do, and if you have a mixer where you can form a loop, put that loop onto another channel, then we can just go ape with this. So for example let's press play here, DJ 900 Nexus, what I'm going to do is go to the roll feature, go to channel number 3, tap on here, put it 1 over 1, get a 4 over 1, and then do something like this. That was a bit of a mess around. Now, what I would be doing before I maybe took this out there is to try and get some form of structure. Now, what I don't want you to do is to copy all of this and think this is how it should be done. No. This is not how it should be done. It should be done how you do it because you are the person who will be doing it. Not me. It's you. So you need to take it to the next level.

4:50 Again, I'm having a bit of a feel for what I want to do

Take notes, watch what I do and go, yeah, yeah, no, maybe, definitely not, that's a possibility. I'm going to do that because I like that bit. I'm definitely not going to do that and I'm not going to pick my nose. Right, so again, I'm having a bit of a feel for what I want to do. Sorry. Right, so I've got a sort of a general idea. So what I'm going to do here now, we've got the acapella. Now what I'm feeling here is play the acapella, bring in the float my boat, let the float my boat do a bit of a loop and then bring in Azealia Banks over the loop and over the acapella and then we have Azealia Banks playing. Take the acapella out before the vocals of Azealia Banks comes in. Flip to another track and bring in another track over the Azalea Banks. I hope I can remember that. Okay, so... In fact, I'll tell you what we'll do. Let's imagine we're sort of like halfway through the track. In other words, we've mixed in. So we've gone from a track here and we've mixed this one in. Okay, so back to three.

6:29 We need to keep rolling here, come on, let's do this

We'll start that again because there was a bit of a mess up there so we need to make sure we've got some form of continuity. We need to keep rolling here, come on, let's do this. There was a lot going on there, I wasn't using my headphones but what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to do shit, not just stand there and go one end to the other. I'm using every single, well actually every single brain cell, how many brain cells have I got? Oh, lost one yesterday. Shit. Can I have it back please? No. I'm trying to use as much brain power as I can to try and take it to the next level, which is what it's all about. Now, I want you to look at what I've done here and hopefully you did get that little piece of paper and make notes. That was terrible, that was terrible, that was terrible, that was terrible. That wasn't too bad. That was the ending.

And formulate your own ideas. Let's get something good out there. Let's try and take what you do, not to this level, but take it up there. I always say, try not to copy me or other DJs. Try and take tips and tricks and then do your own thing. Now on Facebook, there is a page known as the SoundCloud Massive. I'll put a link in the description. It's a place where people can go And they put links to their mixes, their videos, etc. Now watch them because you could get a tip from one mix, a tip from the other. There's a tit over there and there's a tit over there. And feel the tits. And just feel, feel it and get the vibe for those tits, tips. And you never know, you could get slapped across the face because they don't like you feeling them.

But you will get good quality advice from other people's mixes, alright? So again, this is a very random kind of video. If anything, hopefully what you would have learnt from this video is E equals MC squared and don't forget, don't eat too much ice cream because you'll be sick. Except if it's Haagen-Dazs because that's really weird. Chocolate hug. Chocolate Haagen-Dazs. No! Please, be yourself and practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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