DJ Mixing Help with Mixing Breakbeat into House Music

0:00 Some more new releases from CDPool

Right guys, some more new releases from CDPool. In this video we're looking at the underground releases for December 2016. Also, it's a definite DJ lesson. So, we've got house tune over here and we've got a breakbeat tune over here by Subfocus. So, breakbeat is completely different to house. House is 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. Breakbeat is breakbeat. Breakbeat. Let's have a look and let's try and work out what that means. Breakbeat. Break is sort of broken. Smashed. Buggered. Destroyed. Beat. As in the beat. So, you break the beat. You break it up. You've broken the beat up. So that's what breakbeat is. It's like a broken kind of beat. It's not your steady 1, 2, 3, 4. It's almost like a fast version of hip hop.

It's like long beats. Lots of percussion. Now, let's have a listen. Subfocus here. Track in title Love Divine which is taken from the underground releases CDPool track 3 disc number 1. Volume up. How on earth do we count that? How the heck do you count something like that when you've got something like this? This is track 2 from disc 2. Have a listen. Okay, we have a steady 4-4 there. 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2. That's relatively simple. But then something like this.

2:11 It almost like starts and stops if you listen

It almost like starts and stops if you listen. So where do you start? You see, how can we find the timing in that track? How can we find the bar? What do we do? What do we look for? What do we listen for? Now again. This is not with every single track. Okay? Don't say that, you know, don't shout at me saying, oh well I've listened to a track and I started counting on the first sound and it wasn't the one. Some tracks, some dance tracks will not start on the count of 1. There may be a magical kind of musical introduction or there could be a lady going, well I was in... And then it starts there. So. I would say most dance tracks, modern day dance tracks will start on the count of 1. So the software you're using on your laptop

With your controller, with your CDJ what it will do, it will go, oh there's right at the beginning I'm going to pause there, cue it up there and more often than not definitely more often than not it will cue it up on the one for you.

Now that is the one. So, what I'm listening for is I'm trying to listen for a definite kind of structure. A definite kind of... It's the way that almost the beat is put together. Is it stretched out? Is it different? Or is there some form of structure? Is it quite similar in how it's put together? Let's have a listen.

4:16 There is, it's Did you hear that?

Now there is, it's Did you hear that? Listen.

Starts again and again and again I'm going to try and count, well I'm not going to try I'm going to count a bar from the first kick that first sound 1, 2, 3, 4 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 4 Now then with rock and beat stuff like this hip hop R&B drum and bass those sorts of styles you need to concentrate on the 2 and the 4 in a bar 1, 2, 3, 4 so 2, 4 2, 4 Why? Well that is the sound made by the snare. Hold on one second Yvette! Can you get that? Cheers Someone at the door That's the sound It's a house Shit happens That's the sound made by the snare 1, 2, 3 Listen 2, 4 2, 4 2, 4

6:42 Tracks gone, these tracks

Now it may take the beginner a little bit of time to work it out but it's like anything in life The more you do it the better you get So we are going to mix this breakbeat track into that house track so of course we need to make sure it's the same BPM Now you can look at your software if you want to and there are many levels of beat matching The easiest thing to do in the world is to press that button called sync By all means do it if you want to but you're losing you're losing the roots of DJing how it started how it originated mixing originated by DJs matching the beats using these little things that are holes sticking out of the side of your head They're called ears The other way which isn't as bad is when you look and say right I'm going to move

10:24 Tune tune, next week, link description

That to 120 whatever and I'm going to move that one and then I'm going to mix it by using my ears Now even though you may have set it at the same BPM on the readout that doesn't mean to say it will be perfectly in time Again there are a lot of softwares out there a lot of programs that agreed will be perfect but if with the likes of say at the moment I'm using mp3s it hasn't these tracks have not gone through sorry mp3s CDs These tracks haven't gone through Rekordbox The BPM can fluctuate I'm sure you've seen it sometimes if you're using CDJs like this maybe using CDs or mp3s you haven't got to put them through Rekordbox and you'll see oh you've got to put them through the correct program so the next level of course is using the BPM as just a reference really The other one

Is when we do something like this I'm now going to cover that over there and some people have said oh yeah well there's a BPM on the mixer there we go I've put them somewhere alright so I'm going to press play on the house tune this is track two from disc number two put it there hold on so I'm counting that pressing it a couple of times I'm doing it in time but also I'm listening to the music so I'm going to put that in there right hopefully you can see that 126.7 126.7 and let's go practice and enjoy okay check out the link in the description to CD pool and also the link in the description to CD pool sorry breakbeat styles being pronounced there's lots of other different ways of doing it but this is one tune man what tune tune absolute tune love that there'll be lots of fun and probably be giving away something

Like this hold on some of those alright these are forza they are in ear headphones and someone could have those all right they will be given away next week so until next week bye

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