DJ Lesson on Mixing Cutting Pop Songs for the Mobile Road Show DJ

0:00 Track here entitled Higher

Okay, demonstration first with a little bit of the explanation during the demonstration and then after the demonstration and a little bit of explanation we'll go into a full explanation. So, track here entitled Higher. Okay. So we had F for you as well. Disclosure, this one here, Thrifty Shop. This is the explicit edit so don't really want to go any further. Also I haven't played much of the tracks because I don't want to get a slap wrist from YouTube even though I'm using small amounts. The speaker is over there and if you really wanted to sample that cut, the cuts then you're a bit silly really. So okay what was going on? What is this video all about? It's showing you how to edit in What I would class as commercial pop songs without having to mix them. First and foremost, what you need to do is make sure you have tracks that work well together. If you're going to be mixing pop songs then make sure they are relatively popular. These are popular-ish. They're not old now but let's say they're not in the top 40 at the moment but they were in the top 40.

2:23 Using this kind of technique you don't have to beatmatch them

So, using this kind of technique you don't have to beatmatch them. You can pretty much just chop from one to the other. So what was I doing? I was making sure A, I was finding tracks that worked well together, same kind of feel, same kind of buzz, same kind of energy, same kind of vibe, even though the third track was a lot slower, I will explain. So, second track into first track, what did I do? Let's have a listen to a few. That's where I brought it in. Now, I could have brought it in. I'm just going to set a hot cue there. Right, OK. Let's go back to the beginning of the track. This is the beginning of the track. Let's go back to higher. So if I did the same thing from the beginning of the track... There. I mean, that is boring. If you were playing that to a full downslot, people would be looking at you as if to say, well...

You know, you've had a full-on track there and you've gone into the beginning of another track. We don't even know what it is, what's going on. Even there, even that point, you know, it's not good enough. In my eyes, that's not good enough. Listen. It's a lot better than the first one. It's still not good enough. What we need to do, what this tutorial is about, is getting the parts of the track A, that people know, and it's almost that point of the track where... bang it's in there's the energy there's the vocals there's the melody there's there's the hook of the track i think that's the key here the hook of the track that will let people know not only yes they understand and can recognize what's coming in but you're keeping the flow the energy the vibe of the mix so if we go to point a again now you notice as well that's not on the count of one

5:09 Our third track

The I've been in da, da-da-da-da is the count of one. So da-da-da-bam, there. So if I wanted to, I could bring it in there, but it just sounds better. It sounds a lot better if you can bring in all of the vocals because you don't want to edit those vocals out. That is the point of the track where people will recognise it a lot better and it sounds better in the mix. I'll give you a demo now. We'll do the two. Let's go back to around about the same point here. Just set up. Hot cue there. Two, three, four. You see that to me isn't as good as... There, much better. Okay, play this one. Okay, so we'll go to our third track now. 50 shot. Let's try from the beginning. Forward. Just set a quick hot cue there so I can go back to that.

Nah, that's not happening. That's just not happening. And also, that sound there is not the count of one. There, that's the count of one. So, I could if I wanted to just start it there. There, so, excuse me, let's go back to our just random hot cue. There, bang! So we're not beatmatching. All we're doing is we're chopping. We're editing in one track into the other at the correct point, keeping the vibe, keeping the energy and keeping the flow continuity of the music. Hope that's been a help. Practice and enjoy. By the way don't forget check out the link down there to the Wonderbugs page where you can get a rather Thanks for watching.

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