DJ Lesson Taking You Through a Mix Transition EDM Electronic Dance Music

0:01 Track, bars, break

Alright ladies and gentlemen, a lot going on in this video. It's about a transition, it's about a mix, in key, in time, bringing one track, the beginning of one track, or sort of the beginning, I've gone a little bit of the way through, into the end of another one. The track I'm going to be bringing in is My Love Is Free 2010, it's the Lazy Rich remix into 4th of July Fireworks Calvin Harris remix. Now, what I've done is I've worked out towards the latter part of this particular track, the 4th of July, a point where there are 8 bars, sorry 16 bars, I beg your pardon, 16 bars, and then the tune changes slightly from having this sort of weird sound in it to just a beat. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to hit cue point C so you can have a listen, you can hear that sort of weird sound.

Alright, and then if we move the track forward a bit, there, we've just got the beat.

Now, if we listen to My Love Is Free, I'm going to zip this forward a bit because you'll hear it anyway very soon, but we have that, and then we have a break. But the break starts, and then a couple of bars into the break we get the vocals, and... Now the reason, the main reason, one of the main reasons I'm doing this tutorial is some people think that as soon as you... have a break come in, that it's got to be like on the 4th, the 8th or the 16th bar. Not always. Sometimes they will do that to almost try and emphasise even more when the vocals come in. So there's two mixes I'm going to do. One is I'm going to start at cue point C here, so we have 16 bars of that funny sound, and then we just have the beat,

2:56 Which one's going up and

And the beat then will come in as soon as the vocals come in. On My Love Is Free, what I'm going to do then is I've gone back another 16 bars to point, cue point, hot cue, sorry, B. What happens there, we have more of this track, so we'll actually have that sound come over more of the vocals, but what will happen is this track here, the 4th of July, will pretty much stay all the way through the break, and then My Love Is Free, bang, comes straight in. Now at the end of 4th of July, there is a part at the end of the track where you just have hi-hat and snare, so if we have a listen, I'll just C again, move forward a bit. Oops, sorry, bang camera.

OK, so without further ado-do's, what I will do, I'll hit the cue point C's, hot cue, I keep on saying cue point, hot cue C, and we'll have a listen. I'm not going to do any sort of effects, just bring the up faders up and down and I'll explain which one's going up and which one's going down, so here we go.

That's the two together, My Love Is Free is going down now, back up, 4th of July going down, back up, both together.

What I want you to do, concentrate on that for a bit of sound, listen, and you'll notice when that finishes, vocals come in and My Love Is Free. My Love Is Free going down, 4th of July going down. If you see here, this track's pretty much finishing.

That's finished. We've still got this playing.

Now don't get me wrong, that's not the wrong way to do it, there are many ways of doing this kind of mix, but it's one way of doing it. Another way would be to bring it in at cue point B. Sorry. I'm going to get myself a poker and stick it with a Kazi's. Rock, shine, stuff. Remind me. Not a good idea. Here we go.

5:02 Decks, look at the crowd

At this point we could be doing a few effects etc. We could be jumping around and pretending we're doing lots of stuff, waving our hands at the air in the crowd, holding a drink or something like that. But if you are doing this kind of mix, you know it's going to work, then don't just look at the decks, look at the crowd.

You can see the break pretty much finishing there, coming to the end of the track there. Finish off now with a bit of a spin back.

Boom, straight in.

Okay, another way of doing a good smooth transition. The main thing with this particular video, it's all about timing is the key. Practising as well, thank you.

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