DJ Lesson on Mixing in Phrase to Get a Better Transition

0:00 Just finished a Skype lesson

Alright guys, just finished a Skype lesson. I think it's really important to show how important it is to mix in phrase. Two tracks I'm using, Avon Stringer on the left hand side and this one on the right is DJ Punch. I will put the names of the tracks and artists in the description. Mixing in phrase is really important. If you don't do that then it's going to be slightly off. So what I'll do, I'll give you a quick demonstration and then an explanation.

1:01 The beginning of a phrase is the end of the last phrase of course

Another demonstration. Okay, two mixes, pretty much identical except for the first time I mixed in phrase, the second time I mixed out of phrase. Now to hear a phrase in a track, the beginning and or end of, and when I say beginning and or end, it's very simple. The beginning of a phrase is the end of the last phrase of course. That's just so long as the track's carrying on playing or the track carries on playing should I say. The track stops, it's the end of the track and you might as well go and shoot yourself. So if we have a listen, my first hot cue here, C, was just me counting in, giving myself a little bit of time. Now let's have a listen. Very subtle change but there is a change. And there. It was a slight change in the drum pattern but that was the beginning and end of a phrase. Have a listen again.

3:07 Bass treble, three, eight

So let's count from that point. Step. 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 5, 1, 2, 3, 7, 1, 2, 3, 8! This is the bass line of the melody, gone. Right, down to the beginning of this track. 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 4 . three five one two three six one two three seven one two three bananas one two three right so let's take the turntables away let's take the music away and let's imagine we've got two handfuls of beans you've got eight you've got eight you've got the same amount if you play them both together by the time you count through eight on both in both hands you're going to end up with nothing in each hand but let's imagine you start counting eight here and then after two you start counting eight here or by the time these finish on the left you're gonna have two left that's

Exactly what's going on that is as simple as i can make it mixing in phrase is very important let's do it one more time correctly here we go notice i haven't used bass mid treble i haven't used bass mid treble here we go notice i haven't used bass mid treble nothing like that straightforward rough and ready mix nothing like that straightforward rough and ready mix practice and enjoy thank you

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