DJ LESSON How to do a VERY quick mix! by ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:01 Readout here, also the BPM

All right ladies and gentlemen, in this demonstration we're getting very intimate with the CD player. We're using three hot cues and I have for this demonstration got a whole bunch of tracks in key to show you. More importantly I'd like you to look at the readout here, also the BPM. Now you'll notice that the BPM will fluctuate quite drastically from one track to the other but A it will be in time, B it will be in key and C it will be in time. And C it will sound as though we have some continuity. Now a lot of mobile DJs will use this sort of technique. They won't chop from one track to the other sort of three quarters of the way through or as much as this but a lot of mobile DJs, not all of them, but a lot of mobile DJs will tend to use the three and a half minute track you'd normally hear on the radio. You haven't got much of an intro, you haven't got much of an outro so it's very difficult to beatmatch in time the two tracks.

1:29 Dylan Rhymes 130 and 127.2

You've got to be either very clever, find the precise point or loop let's say the end of the track giving you time then to bring the next track in but even then maybe you have to loop the third track. Right we have Disclosure, we have Dylan Rhymes and we have a track by Prada and if we have a listen, that's one, Dylan Rhymes, there you go. I don't know why that one isn't coming up, Disclosure, but oh there you go 127.4 BPM. Dylan Rhymes 130 and 127.2. Now if I was to try and beatmatch those three tracks at those speeds I wouldn't be able to because they are not in time. What they are though is in key so using this kind of technique what we can do is we can go from one track to the other quite simply and quite easily.

2:35 For example this one's playing, there you go

Of course major points to look at here is to make sure they're in key and also good points where to chop them in. So if you were doing say for example a long mashup what you could do is you could, especially with this player, you'd have three cue points. If you're using PC programs quite often you'll have more cue points I believe some controllers have a lot more cue points than just three so you could get eight tracks or however many cue points you've got get them at good points in the track and then chop them in. So for example this one's playing, there you go. I hope that's been a help but again just take this think about it and take it to the next level. Practice and enjoy!

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