DJ Lesson How to mix different music styles into your DJ set by the DJ Tutor

0:01 It's a bit of a strange angle, but it's fun

All right, sorry about that.

Oh God. Sorry about that. It's a bit of a strange angle, but it's fun. Strange angles. Right, this demonstration tutorial is all about doing things that you think you can't do or you're told that you can't do. Well, you actually can. Now, many people say, can I mix a hip-hop track with a house track? Can I mix techno track with a house track? Can I make a drum and bass track with a house track? Well, you can. Now, you might not be able to mix it BPM-wise. They may not be able to work together. As in, one track could be 120, the other one could be 47 and three quarters. Very slow. That probably wouldn't mix very well. But you can mix them in musically. So what I'm going to do here, I'm going to play a house track and mix in sort of another housey track,

But a little bit more hip-hoppy, vibey kind of thing. Probably could mix in there right about. Same BPM anyway, but it's going to give you a general idea. Also this particular video is for people out there who can't mix BPM beat mix mash to save their life. All right? So you can mix tracks in that are different genres.

You can, you can mix tracks in with different genres. Okay, I'll show you, right? We've got two tracks here. The first one is taken from the dance releases August 2013 from CD Paul and it is track number seven, Mike Magoo. The show, go and check out the link in the description. It will take you to the CD Paul website please. Right this one here, I love this one because it's got really nice deep soulful bass line slamming. This one here by the way is track one from the urban releases. Just make sure I get the right. Yeah, it is scruff fizzer, scruff fizzer, track entitled kick it.

Hold on.

Okay, sorry, right? And it's like, sounds a little bit like this at the beginning. Wanted to, I could every time about every time a one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one. Have a listen to it a bit more.

2:45 This is about just blending these in musically

Okay, that's what this isn't about. This is about just blending these in musically. So beginning of the track now where I'm going to bring this one in is halfway through the Mike Magoo track. But I want to play the whole of the Mike Magoo track. So how on earth am I going to play the whole of the track? Mike, I'm getting Confucius now and I can't feel so say go come how the hell how the heck sorry how am I going to play the entire track but then mix this one in halfway through that one when I want to play the entire track I want to play all of this how am I going to do it very simple it's called a cue point so here we go imagine we're on the headphones a track here is playing it's not really useful.

Yeah, it's playing. It's not really just kidding track over here is playing and I've got this on the headphones. So what you're about to hear, you'll be hearing on your headphones have a listen. So I'm doing this set of cue point.

3:59 It's playing bringing this one in

Okay, so that's my cue point. That tracks still playing over there. So it's playing bringing this one in. Don't don't don't don't want a good mix. Don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't play the track. Very little point here is your timing your bars. Start on the echo. I'm going to press play on gives you the general idea. All right, no beat matching nothing at all. I just boned it in approve a point. Right? I'm going to speed that up quite considerably. That's a lot faster. Let's do exactly the same thing on the track coming out. That's very fast. Okay practice and enjoy and don't forget to practice practice practice practice practice practice practice get pissed off. No enjoy. Thank you.

I do.

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