DJ LESSON Mobile DJ Mixing Techniques...4...The talk over

0:00 Hats, people, wacky

Alright guys, video number four on learning how to mix if you're a mobile DJ or mixing for a mobile DJ. I would say the most important part is unless you're in a club environment and you're a mobile DJ who works in different clubs then you do probably have to mix but of course that's depending on if the club requests that. If they don't then the most important part about mixing for a mobile DJ is probably when you get home at night and you fancy doing a cake for your missus. Because I'll be honest with you, there are still a lot of mobile DJs who will do mixing but it's not the end of the world. It's not do or die. You don't have to sit there and beatmatch everything. If you think you do then I suggest you take up flower arranging.

In this video I'm going to give you a couple of demonstrations of how not to mix but how still to keep the vibe going. Now something as well, when I started doing these videos on the web many many years ago I started wearing just hats, baseball caps and what not. And then the hats became a little bit more wacky and eccentric until eventually I'm normal. But people remember the wacky hats. In fact I do get people coming up to me going I love your hats. Why aren't you wearing a hat today? Or where are your crazy hats? So people have remembered something about me. Now again, let's take this next further. Look at Deadmau5. Big head, big ears. There's a couple of guys out there who wear cassettes on their heads.

People remember. So why don't you think of something that makes you stand out from every single other mobile DJ? This is one of the keys, big key. Fair enough if you're doing a wedding you do have to be relatively smartly dressed. Suit if you haven't got a suit, a shirt maybe a tie, black trousers. You need to be in keeping with the overall look of the night. You don't want to go to a wedding function and turn up in a t-shirt. You don't want to dress all night in jeans when everyone else is with a full whistle on. Sorry that's whistle and flute which is short for swoop. Alright geezer, thank you. No I said ball and chalk. How are you aren't you Mabel? Anyway right. So you need to be dressed smart. But at the same time if you're doing an 18th birthday party or it's a little bit more wacky then go wacky.

2:48 You need to talk to people

Because as soon as you walk behind the decks people are going to go oh I like that. They'll probably like you before you put your first t-shirt on. Now as well, I'm doing a lot of this. I'm moving around a bit. Don't do this. People like to see you move. You are an entertainer. So entertain. Right so when is a mix not a mix? It's when it's a blend. When is a blend not a blend? It's when you use the microphone. Why do you use the microphone? Because you need to communicate. You need to talk to people. You need to explain to them that you're not an iPod. You are a real person. You're not a video. It's about mixing, excuse me, a transition between different genres. Completely different genres. Completely different styles and completely different eras.

I'm going to do this in a couple of ways. First of all let's play this one here. This by the way is David Guetta featuring Tatria just one last time. And this one here is Spandau Ballet and gold. I mean you know one's like relatively modern. Depends when you're watching this video. You could be watching it ten years time. Which means if we say go on your blue football tracks. You'll be saying oh my god. I've got to get out of here. I've got to get out of here. And that's even older. Now if you are watching this in ten years time. God that was old and it's even older. But at the moment that one is quite new. This one is old. Right pay attention. Well newish sorry. So that's that. And then what's happened there? Oh sorry just something appeared on the camera.

It's like a long way over there. And then this is this one.

So I can do this transition in many ways. I can do some sort of blend. I'm going to give you a couple of examples. So we've got this playing.

Sort of a blend. The next one if you're not happy with doing something like that. Then try this. This is where this thing comes in very handy. In fact. This is possibly for a mobile DJ. Yes. One of the most important appliances out there.

It's called a microphone. And it makes you rather louder. And if you haven't got a very loud voice. You probably won't need one. And you will need one because it's great to have. So let's do the same thing.

5:25 I never knew exactly how to pronounce his name

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. That's David Guetta. I never knew exactly how to pronounce his name. Is it Gwitta? Whatta? I don't really know. A lot of people have been requesting very slow smoochy music from a couple of lovers out there. So guess what? We're going to play this one for you. The title of the tune. Entitled Gone.

Now a lot of things happened there. One is that of course the track finished. I tried to bring in the other one. But there was almost a transition. The mix was me talking. Also if you listen to a lot of radio stations you will hear the DJs talking over the music. But what they very very very rarely do is talk over the introduction of a track. When the vocals start. It's almost like the intro. I forget the exact way they explain it. But you may have the beginning of a track and then the DJ will talk and as soon as they finish talking the vocals come in. Well that's a bit of an art but once you get the hang of that it sounds great because there's always something going on. There's never some form of voice in the background.

And again when you're a mobile DJ a lot of mobile DJs out there will do the 3 1⁄2 minute thing and that is you don't really play full length mixes unless it's a big dance hit and people want that. What you do find is a mobile DJ will generally play 3 1⁄2 minutes, 3 1⁄2 minutes 3 1⁄2 minutes. So you haven't got much time to mess around and go and pee and you haven't then just like that. No, we don't really want to do that actually that could look really rude. So you don't want to do that. Right so that's another one. Let me think. Here's another one. Why not use an effect? My goodness my brain is ticking. Right here we go.

Again not the best example but it doesn't matter. And also again I'm moving. I'm having fun. I'm making use of the area where I am. I'm trying to make this little area seem a bit more interesting because you're an act. You are an entertainer. Entertain. This is video number 4 Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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