DJ Lesson on Mixing Deep House and Adding Some Natural Effects BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 It's the original mix

Alright guys, got two tunes here by Mr. Lenny Fontana. The track you're listening to at the moment is called I Get A Good Feeling. It's the original mix. We're going to be chucking it in to Realize, the Fracture remix. I will put a link in the description that will take you to the Karmic Records label where you can get more info on these two tracks and all of the other slamming house tunes from Mr. Lenny Fontana, from his stable. What he does, he brings together a whole bunch Ellaskins is one of the top-notch producers and brings us some good, solid, soulful house music. So before we go into the tutorial, I want to give you a bit of advice here. There's three ways of living your life. Number one is the boring way. That's the normal run-of-the-mill, do your thing, get on with it and have blinkers on. That's number one.

1:59 I will talk more about it in future videos but it can be done

I need you to live in number two, which is thinking outside of the box, on the edge, on that tightrope. Always thinking something different. Trying to look at a job and changing it. Trying to walk in a new direction. Thinking you don't want to do that, you want to do something else. Imagining what you can do and then implementing that imagination into something that will happen. Get it out there. Do it. Go for it. Have fun. If you wake up on a Saturday morning and it's always doing that, do this. Drink tea not coffee. Drink hot coffee not tea. Alright, yeah. It's up to you. But it's about thinking outside the box. If there is something you've always wanted to do, do it. If you're a little bit scared or anxious about approaching someone because you want to talk to them about something, just do it. Because the only thing stopping you is you. I will talk more about it in future videos but it can be done. Alright, so in this video what we're going to do, we've got a very nice uplifting sort of soulful tune

We're going to knock into a deep track, so what we're going to do here is we're going from a nice happy vibe into more of a deep house vibe. But what I want to do, I want to keep elements of this happy song in the next track. And we can do that by just using the echo and just bringing tiny parts of this track. Now, I want to go to sort of there. I got a feeling it is not on the one. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Okay, so that's all I'm going to do. That's it. So, the next thing of course we need to make sure that the track we're going to bring in is in time, it's in key, it's in phrase, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

No, right okay so we do that by of course counting our bars and phrases making sure that when we bring the next track in it is at the end of and the beginning of a phrase. So there's a point during this track where... Right beginning of a phrase now I'm just going to have a listen to this track here I'm gonna decide where to bring it in maybe at the beginning maybe 16 bars in 32 bars in maybe even at the break so play it Alright, I'm just going to start counting from there to make sure that's the beginning end of a phrase. 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, no it's probably there actually. Yeah, it is probably there. 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6, Okay, so we have that magical number. We're looking for the magic numbers which are sometimes it's four...

5:44 Those are the magic numbers

More than likely it's 8, 16, 32. Those are the magic numbers. If you can get those inside your mind then everything else will fit into place. The structure of music is a bit like a jigsaw but it's not sort of pieces that are very random. The pieces are structured. It's almost like a pie chart cut into sections. Some will be that big, others will be double the size, others will be quarter the size If you find one and you think it's a lot bigger than the other two, it's highly likely the other two will fit into that one because the big one could be 32 and the other two could be 16. So just get on with it. Right, OK, so we've got that point there and we've got this point here. I'm just going to try it. May work, may not. We'll see. OK, that sort of didn't because that phrase was 8.

7:08 We start it on the next bar

This is 16, so what do we do? Correct. Let's count 8 from here. So 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6, 1, 2, 3, 7, 1, 2, 3, 8, 1, 2, 3. There. Now this is very important. We do not start that on the 8. We start it on the next bar. Very important. OK, so... That's slightly off. There. Just pause that. Put it there. There. OK, so... So let's try that again. What I want to do now, I want to carry on adding tiny elements of this track. Now, I've set that sound there, that little sample, So I'm now going to go to channel two, because this is on channel two. We're on echo and I'm now gonna tap in time with this track. Two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Now what I'm going to do also, I'm gonna go three quarters, because three quarters adds extra layers as a new element to the echo. It's not just da-da-da-da-da or should I listen? Da-da-da-da. It's da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

9:02 Inside a tutorial here, how do we get a skip?

Oh dear. Inside a tutorial here, how do we get a skip? Have a listen. You're hitting them very quickly. You need to imagine the sound. So your da-dum is just that da is the high and the dum is the low. And if you wanted to get it perfectly in time, in phrase, what you would do is prior to doing your da-dum, Where the track should naturally come into play anyway. So if we go to, let's say, the end of that phrase. Let's go here. No, there. If we go to the break. Or maybe not there actually because that would be a bit too much because all of a sudden it would just go dead. It's a little bit more advanced but... It's practice, isn't it? So I'm going to finish off practice and enjoy. Check out Mr. Karmic Power Records himself, Lenny Fontana in the house. Love you dude. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. Yeah.

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