DJ Lesson on Chopping a New Tune in and Adding an Acapella over the Top

0:00 In this video we're going to do a transition using an acapella

Right ladies and gentlemen, in this video we're going to do a transition using an acapella. There's not going to be no beat matching at all. It's just going to be using an acapella for the mix. So here's one track, here's the other track and that's how they're going to join. They're just it's going to be snapped from one straight into the other but the mix helping to stick the two together is going to be the acapella. It's a little bit like Having a sticky bit there and a sticky bit there and just sort of getting some glue and gluing them in the centre. Well, of course, what happens? It's probably easily snapped. But if you had a piece on the top and glue that, then you've got extra stability and you've got something that's going to hold it a lot better together. Two tracks we're using is Avicii Silhouettes. We've also got Michael Jackson Bad. It's the... Let's just check, make sure we've got the...

It's the Afrojack remix and this one here, which is Beach and Tia. It's my legs, my arms and my elbows and that kind of thing. Have a listen. What I've done with this as well is I've formed two hot cues. So... Done that for a reason because the first word, my... Have a listen. Is not in on the count of one, it's my one. Legs is the count of one, so you've got to be either very quick or as I'm doing here, I'm just making sure for backup purposes. I've got that set, the first kick of the count of one which is legs. So, let's play Avicii. Now this is the point where I want to start do or sum of the transition but I'm going to go to the end of the track and also if we have a listen to the acapella

2:31 What we've done is we've made the acapella bigger

There's a little bit of reverb there, but what I want to try and do is try and make the sound bigger. And we can do that by adding some more effects. So using the Nexus 900, I'm going to use some echo, make sure I'm on channel 3. If I just tap in time, I'm going to go to a quarter. I don't want to use the word suntan, I just want to use the first part. Okay, so what we've done is we've made the acapella bigger. So let's go back to Avicii and to the latter part of it. Done correctly, fantastic. A few points here for the Michael Jackson. Have a listen. We had one for Avicii. Now you don't have to follow this video to a T. In other words, follow every single move. But what you can do is look at certain points and think, yeah, we can add this to this, this to that and so on. What I've tried to do is I've tried to use cue points, hot cue points. I've tried to think of an acapella that can somehow blend a cut together because this is all that's happening. If we took away the acapella, this is pretty much all that would be happening. We'd have... That's pretty much it.

By just having that, you're just chopping. What you're doing is you're almost covering up the chops by adding a bit of acapella to overlay the whole mix. I hope that's been helpful. Practice and enjoy. If you want any more information as well about the Dubai DJ Academy, check it out in the description. Thank you.

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