DJ Lesson on Three Turntable Mixing Test Your Self

0:00 This is a video helping you to learn how to mix on three turntables

All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is a video helping you to learn how to mix on three turntables. This is a lesson for you to do at home while you're by yourself with no one around. You do not need loud volume, you will need three decks, and you've got to match three beats. Get them in time, keep them in time, whether it be one second, two, ten seconds or for the rest of your life. Doesn't matter. You may look and think, well, yeah, you've got the readouts, you can see the BPM, and you could use the sync button. You've got some headphones. Well, this is where the test is. This is where you have to train your ears. Firstly what I'm going to do is I'm going to cover those. You may be thinking as well, ah, well he's already set the pitch. Well, I'll show you that I haven't in a bit. I'm going to cover those.

1:14 Sounds like mayhem out there

The next thing is I'm not going to use any headphones, and we're going to move the pitches around like that and like that. So if we have them all set up, we're going to move them around. So if we have them all together, I'm going to press two at the same time and then that one over there shortly after in time. Well, time-ish because they're going to be off beat anyway. And we'll see what happens. Absolutely terrible. Right, so we'll start off with this one here. We'll mix that one in and then that one over there. Oops. Sounds like mayhem out there. Well, you know, it's feeding time at the zoo, isn't it? All hell breaks loose. I'm surprised the house hasn't fallen down by now. Can you hear? You've got my thing.

3:53 This particular video is in many parts and with all my

You've got my thing. Now, because I turned it that way, the ga-dunk, ga-dunk is bigger. There's more of a gap which means I spun it the wrong way around. I had to turn it the other way. And by doing that now, I need to slow this one down. Anyway, this particular video... It's amazing what you can do with a tickling stick. This particular video is in many parts and with all my... Fair enough. At least they're not crying. That's the main thing. You know, there's many things you can take from my particular videos. But one thing that just came quite apparent while I was doing the mix is keeping it there. Maybe taking one of the decks out and having a listen. Is that one that you took out, the one that was out...

Was that the one that was in to the one you're listening to? I was actually listening to one of the tracks. So you take one out, you bring one in. You bring maybe two out. Bring one back in and then the other one. Again, it's about experimentation but this is a very, very good way of learning how to beat mix. Believe me, it is because you're not listening through your headphones. You haven't got the beauty about listening to a separate sound source in one ear and the rest of the system from the speakers. So you're testing yourself to the very limit. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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