DJ Lesson, CD Pool New Releases. Dance and Club Feb 2013

0:01 Another new release is for you from CDpool

Alright ladies and gentlemen, another new release is for you from CDpool. Let's put track 1 on. This one here is track 1 from disc number 1 from the club releases February 2013. In this video also we'll be doing a bit of a random tutorial, a random lesson. This one is all about taking your skills of mixing to the next level. To try and take you to the next level. To try and stretch you to the very limit. What am I on about? This is where we... Right, we'll cover that, cover the screen and also I'm going to cover the screen there as well. Now, your senses, touch, smell, your hearing, your sight, what we're doing is we're taking away sight because we can't see the other tracks coming in. We don't know where they start, how they start and also we don't know what they sound like

Because we're not going to use headphones either. So what we're doing is hopefully there'll be a part of your brain that will have to work overtime to compensate for what you can't do here. So I've got track one here from disc number one, I'm now going to try and find another track from disc number two that will work well with track one. Not only that, I can't cue it up, I don't know what it's going to sound like, and also I don't know if it beat matches, so I've got to do all that manually. What we'll do, I'm going to close my eyes, turn that dial there and press down there and we'll cue that one. Let's have a listen. Don't know about that, it's a bit low. So what I'll do is I'll move it forward a bit. We can get a general idea of what it sounds like in the middle. Right now I've found a point where I reckon it'll work. Okay, very random.

2:26 Believe me, this is completely random

And this one here is track number eight, CD4 February 2013. And this one here is Fred Conti featuring Sara Grinaldi. All right, we're gonna do exactly the same thing again. Believe me, this is completely random. I've got that covered over there, all right? So I'm gonna focus what's going on and I'm gonna turn that dial that way and that way and that way. I'm not gonna look there, that way. And I'm gonna press down. I've now chosen a completely random track. With this kind of dance music, it's very generic, lots of similarities and also you can pretty much rest assured that the BPM is going to be relatively the same. Right, I'm going to press down there. Alright, hopefully we've got a different track then. Let's have a listen. Yeah, a different track. Very random. What I'm going to do is random to the extreme. I'm going to choose a track from here.

4:59 I will tend to play around with this so

And I'm going to choose a part of the track that works, maybe halfway through. Very important, always you have to make sure it's in BPM, it's got to be the same speed, otherwise if you try and beatmatch it, it'll sound atrocious, even atrocious. And also they've got to be in key, they've got to have keys that work well together. So just do a bit of that, press down there. I'm going to try and do this kind of thing quite often. What I try and do is when I have some new tracks, They're completely new to me, so I don't really know what they even sound like. I will tend to play around with this sort of idea because you don't really know what tracks sound like, you don't know what to expect, so you're not used to those tracks and you don't... You know... Oh God, I'm confusing myself. It's almost as though you're delving into a new town, a new city.

7:04 We've had a bit of a mess around here

You're more open to what's going on, what's around you, instead of going to your local supermarket and knowing that there's gonna be the meat counter on the right and there's gonna be the veg counter on the left. You're interested, you're more interested and focused in what's going on around you which is exactly what's going on here. Alright, we've had a bit of a mess around here. The other part of this demo stroke tutorial is gonna be using the microphone. I want you to pay more attention not to what I'm saying But to how I use the volume, so we'll try and find another track from this number one, and then we'll start using the microphone. So again, I'm not using any headphones. The tempo reset off. I also know you can set it to 12 o'clock. If you haven't got low or high, and you've just got a tone control, set it to about 12 o'clock. Now my volume control is set to zero. I'll explain. What I'm going to do is I've got the microphone on, and now I'm going to talk to it once

9:39 How are you feeling out there?

1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, like that. That's a good audio sound for you. That's a good volume. The reason I had the volume down is because if I had the volume all the way up or halfway up and then turned the microphone on, I may get some feedback because the microphone volume would have been set according to my last levels, the last levels of the venue. So we always need to be very wary and careful. If the volume was too high, we'd have had loads of feedback. And you could damage your hearing and also you could damage your speakers as well. So, now I know, one two, one two, one two, one two. How are you feeling out there? My name's Jonathan, and we're gonna have some fun today, tonight, tomorrow, last week, this week, and also the week before. All right, there. What I was doing, two things, two things. One is just before I started to talk

12:27 Avicii, spot on Visa

I brought the volume down. Then I talked, and then as soon as I finished talking, volume straight back up. So it's... How you feeling, Laura? Swift movements, not like this. How are you feeling? Are you alright? That doesn't work, because what you're doing is you're talking while the music's still on. The other one is timing. Listen to the music. Try and talk. Try and think of something to say. Try and be constructive. I must admit though, the Elitchi track, I could be the one. When I first heard that, I thought, oh my god, it's absolutely shit. It's absolutely effing pants. But you know what? I do like it now. It's not one of those that I've played, I've heard it so many times on the radio I thought I like it. I actually do like it because it's really, it's very commercial but at the same time it's really well put together. So, very good track. Avicii, spot on Visa. Track 1 from CD4 Dance February 2013. We'll take this one out. Right, what I'm going to do now with the next track so you can see here, if you're using the like of CDJ.

14:40 Move the jog wheel and also the jog adjust

It's a great way of doing the spin back and going straight back to the point at which you started the spin back. Very simple and easy move to do. If it's done correctly, it sounds fantastic. Track one, right at the end of this track. What I'm going to do, this one here by the way is track number three from disc number two. What I'm going to do is set a cue point, correct time signature, replacing the track. Again, it's about how much you... Move the jog wheel and also the jog adjust. So there's a difference there between spinning too much and when you hit the cue, you're trying to get to that point. And also not enough when you don't get enough of a spin forward or in this case now spin back. Just about to pull that one off. Back into three here. Just into two. We'll find one over on this side. What time we're on? Sometimes when you have new tunes, just mess around with them. Get to know them.

16:11 Practice and enjoy, have some fun

Practice and enjoy, have some fun. I'll put a link in the description and take you to the CB4 website. Have a good one.

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