DJ Lesson on Mixing Bhangra Tutorial 4 BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 This is video number four on learning how to mix Bangra

All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is video number four on learning how to mix Bangra. In video number four, what we're going to do, we're going to use the hot cues to record some loops. The track I'm playing is a very good Bangra track. If you want any info on it, check out in the description, I'll give you the name of the title and the artist. Let's have a listen to the track first. Reminds me a little bit of an Inicomo's The Hot Stepper. Okay, so of course what we need to do, we need to form some loops. Bearing in mind everything I do now, you could be doing on the fly, on your headphones while the crowd are listening to the other track. So what you need to do, you need to maybe try and find parts of the track where you feel it would be interesting to form a loop.

1:47 One, two, three, four

So, now I'm thinking right at the beginning of the track, why don't we start to form a loop at the beginning. If you do form a loop at the beginning of the track, there's no need to press the in. All you have to do is press the out. That's of course dependent and you need to make sure that when you do this from the beginning of the track, that the beginning of the track starts at the count of one. So, you've got a good loop in time and in time when you're counting bars. And of course a bar is the count of one, two, three, four. Here we go. Three, four. One, two, three, four. Two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Now we've got our loop, but of course we need to record that. So making sure that the hot cues are highlighted in red, I can press now either A, B or C.

3:40 At the moment I'm just skipping through the track

We'll press A. If I now press record call, that is now highlighted in amber which tells me I've formed a loop. I've recorded a loop onto hot cue A. Press record call again. We're now back into red so I can now record two more loops. So let's... Listen to the track. Let's try that. Okay, let's find another one. At the moment I'm just skipping through the track. Okay, so what we've done now, I've recorded three loops. So if we have a listen... It's a great way of, let's say, making a track that's only one or two minutes long and lengthening it. Making or giving you the opportunity to have almost an extended version of the track you're playing which in turn gives you the opportunity of forming a longer transition from one track into the other.

Hope that's been a help, practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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