DJ Lesson on Three Turntable Mixing Stretching You to the Limits!

0:00 Demonstration stroke tutorial on 3-deck mixing

Alright ladies and gentlemen, demonstration stroke tutorial on 3-deck mixing. More importantly, this is a test for you. This tests you to see if you can do 3-deck mixing, if you're capable of doing 3-deck mixing and also it makes you hopefully better at 3-deck mixing. I have 3 turntables ready, I have thumb drives ready. I'm going to turn them on, I'm going to form a loop with this deck, I'm going to bring in another track on this deck and then the third one over there I'm going to bring an acapella. But the idea behind this test is to see if your brain can do 2 things at once because that's pretty much what you're going to have to do. Simple 2-deck, you've got to concentrate on 1 mix. With 3-deck mixing you've got to concentrate on 3.

With 4 even more. Maybe you should use the sync but what I'm going to do here, form a loop, bring a mix in but then while I'm trying to concentrate on keeping this mix together I'm then going to have to go over here, find a folder, dig into that folder, find a file, start that file up and mix that file in. The third file is going to be an acapella so what we'll do, we'll turn them on and put this one in first, second. And even while that one's gone in I'm straight away going to USB, saving myself time waiting, USB and USB and let's have a look, all on tempo and just move all those around so you can't think that I've been setting the pitches so we'll start. We've got a loop and we're going to find something else.

2:07 I haven't got the volume that loud

I haven't got the volume that loud. I don't really want it loud because I want to hear what's going on. I know you can hear what's going on when it's loud anyway but when it's too loud the volume tends to get higher and higher and higher and higher so what I'm doing now with my left hand is keeping that in beat so the idea here is to get 2 decks going and then while you're keeping those going then you're concentrating or you're trying to concentrate on bringing a third one in. Bring something else in. Okay went a bit over the top there but okay in a nutshell this video is about getting two tracks going together, keeping them going together, keeping your mind active on making sure they stay together but at the same time while you're doing that you're going to your third deck, you're finding another file so again it's the emphasis here of trying to find the other file first.

You're looking, you're concentrating on something else as well as concentrating on the mix and bringing that other whatever in. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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