DJ Lesson on Forming a Long Loop over the Mix BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:01 Do you like the hands bit?

All right ladies and gentlemen in this particular tutorial what we're going to do is we are going to, well I've already actually done it, a bit of cheating going on here but I've tried to save time. The idea behind this video is to add a loop over a track in the mix. Sounds very simple but there's a slight difference because what we're doing here we're adding a very long loop. Do you like the hands bit? Now you're probably wondering why would you do this? Well what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to have almost like a bass to my mix. So if you imagine we're playing a track here, we bring a loop in, we keep the loop playing for quite a bit of the time that the track over here is playing for and then what we can do, we can then bring this particular

Track out, carry on playing that loop and bring another track in. So what's happening, well actually there's a lot going on here, it's a hell of a lot so you need to expand on this yourself. You are in a way, you're quite possibly remixing the track because you're giving it another dimension, you're giving it more depth. You're also holding almost like you're holding the mix together instead of one track into another, you've sort of got your one track into another but you've got something happening underneath all the time. So anything can happen and if again you need to look at these particular videos and expand on them yourselves. Okay the tune, make sure I get the wording right here, the tune on the left here is Liana Louie's Save Your Heart,

It's the Kenny Hectic remix and over here one of my favourites at the moment Lenny Fontana, everybody put your hands up. So the Lenny Fontana track, all I've done is I have formed a loop of I think roughly about the first 16 bars so there.

2:04 Pioneer website and you can download

Right, straight in. Now this particular loop isn't quantised, it may be off very slightly but of course if you use the Rekordbox software which is free, go to the Pioneer website and you can download the Rekordbox software even if you haven't got Pioneer kit, it's there and it's free. You can quantise your loops using the software so they are pretty much bang on perfect. I'm not saying 100% because someone will go no it's like 98% but it's like 1.47362% really on bang on, ugh, ugh. Okay so right, play you first of all a little bit of the Kenny Hectic track, I will put information in the description where you can get more sort of, I don't know, biogs and info on Kenny Hectic and of course Lenny Fontana

As well. Now you see this track is very nice, it's got that beautiful garage feel, very mellow. And you can play in the middle of let's say a garage set, you know maybe you want to bring people down, you're ready to take them back up again. So another way of looking at this particular tutorial by adding something behind this track, you will then lift this cut, you'll lift the Liane Louise tune, sorry I'm dyslexic. Right what I'm going to do now is I'm going to start to slowly bring people down. Okay so I've got my guitar here, I've got my piano here, I've got my bass here, I've got my bass, I've got my guitar. So I'm going to start to slowly bring the loop in in the background. Again we can slowly bring it in, alternatively we could just put it straight into the mix, volume up. If you

Do something like that you've got to make sure that it's in beats perfectly from the first kick. If it's slightly off it's going to sound terrible. So my advice if you're going to do this safe for your training, your practicing is use your headphones, volume down, headphones get it perfectly in time by using the jog wheel pitch and then slowly bring it in. Here we go. Just watch and listen. See we've got that in the background. Let's take it away, hear the difference, break now. Alright now if you are very clever like I said think in advance about what you're doing. Take this information in but use it of course don't abuse it but add your bits in as well. So for example while that was in the mix I was thinking what we could do is we could

5:35 We've just got that beat haven't we?

Using the hot cues if you have got the capability of hot cues all you've got to do is bring it in. Put that loop into one of the hot cues and then you can then add maybe a shorter loop into a hot cue and a shorter one again into a hot cue. I'll give you an example, the reason I've just thought of that is simply this if we have a listen to the beginning of the Lenny Fontana tune. Have a listen. We've just got that beat haven't we? That's it. In fact I'm going to do it now. So that's our first hot cue. There. Right so we've now, I've now put that loop in the middle of the hot cue and you always know when it's a loop because it will be amber not red and not green. So what I'm going to do now is just get out that loop. Now listen. There. I'm going to

Form that loop now where we start getting that the high hat. Let's have a listen. That's not too bad there's a little bit off. So what I'm going to do, so right do you get the idea? So now I am now in complete control of the beat. Right. I'm in complete control of two loops and I can if I want to add that high hat which gives me more scope for adding, adding a bass to the track over here. So let's start the Kenny Hectic again. Here we go. Effect. Just go to town. Enough. Listen. Hopefully your head is boiling by now thinking that's a good idea right now. This and that. That's what it's about. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much once again. Big shout out. Kenny Hectic in the house. Thank you very much.

And of course Mr Lenny Fontana. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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