DJ LESSONS FOR Super Pink Zebra Girl PART 2

0:00 Hi guys, Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor

Hi guys, Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor. It's blocking my face! Get out of here! Stop it! This is video number two, teaching Sophia, my ten-year-old stepdaughter, how to DJ. It's blocking your face. Just say a little bit about yourself. What do you do? You've got your own YouTube channel and stuff, haven't you? Yes. Yeah, come on, explain then. I like zebras. Yeah, what's the YouTube channel called? Super Pig Zebra Girl. And there'll be a link in the description. There will also be a link in the description to this track here from Mr Lenny Fontana featuring D-Train. Okay, so Sophia, in this video what we're going to do is look at low, bless you, mid and high, also known as bass, mid and treble. At the moment they're at the 7 o'clock position which is off. I want you to start turning them to the 12 o'clock position.

But all of them? One at a time, two together, three together. And tell me what you're hearing. Explain to me what you're listening to.

You explain to me what you can hear.

1:46 We can increase all of the frequencies

A thuddy sound. Thuddy sound. That's a good way of explaining it. That's like the bass. That's a thuddy sound. It's good. Okay, next one up. Is that like a hollow sound? Like as though it's someone's talking in a tin can kind of thing, yeah? Okay, next one up. The next one. Like a tinny kind of sound, isn't it? So this one here is the treble which is like the high sound. This one's the mid, like your guitars, your keyboards. This one here is the bass. So by messing around with these three we're able to make the sound big, small, flumptuous. We can increase all of the frequencies. We can increase the sound to make it big or small, okay? So if we turn the mid up all at 12 o'clock we get the full spectrum of sound that the producer's made

By having the EQ, bass, mid and treble all at 12 o'clock. But then if we start to reduce those, of course anti-clockwise, we reduce that sound. Okay, what Sophia's done now is put them all at 9 o'clock. So you've reduced them all at the same place which means it's still a full sound because you've reduced them all the same. But if we start reducing the mid more than the others or increasing the mid more than the others we know they're highlighted, the mid, which is more of the vocals, the melody, the keyboards, etc. Okay, so again have another little mess around. Okay, do you want to do something a little bit more exciting now? Yes. Right, okay. Now first of all, do you remember in our first lesson we worked out how to count a bar?

Do you remember what that was?

3:26 Three four, four three, bass

Well, we can count 1-2-3-4-2-2-3-4-3-2-3-4-4-2 or 1-1-2-3-2-1-2-3-3-1-2-3-4-1-2-3. For this demonstration I just want you to count like this. Listen. 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4 Okay? So what I want you to do is I want you to move one of these three dials in time so with your counting so for example, bass off and 1-2-3-4 out 2-3-4 bass back in 2-3-4 bass out 2-3-4 1-2-3-4 2-3-4 What this is teaching her now is how to bring bass in and out in time with in time with a bar okay two three four back in right put it to 12 o'clock now do the mid out two three four two three four two three four two three four now the treble put the mid up to 12 o'clock as well that's it so now treble out two three okay slightly more difficult I want you to do this now watch one two three four one so now

What I'm doing is I'm taking the bass out bringing the treble in and then same move taking the treble out bringing the bass in look look you're getting bored aren't you okay that's all right go on then two at the same time two three four three four one two okay three four one two three four one two three okay that's cool all right now these videos for Sophia very simple very step by step but what we're doing is I'm slowly teaching her it's almost like the back door of DJing not here's how to mix this is what you do before you do anything like that you know a person being taught needs to be taught the very basics a very simple way of just slowly bringing in the art of DJing would you like to finish off with practice and enjoy practice

And enjoy it suckers what a polite young child she is

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