DJ Mixing Lesson Going from House to Old School 70's Style Music

0:01 Hopefully this tutorial will be sort of somewhere in the middle

Alright guys, demonstration stroke tutorial on mixing an old school tune into a modern day dance track. There's going to be a lot going on here and this particular tutorial is not for the faint hearted. If you can't do this correctly, don't bother doing it. If it's done well, it sounds genius. If it's done incorrectly, it sounds terrible. Hopefully this tutorial will be sort of somewhere in the middle. First of all, you need to find a track. A track that was made, of course, years ago. But that track has been incorporated into a modern day dance music track. Why? Well, when you do mix this correctly, people will think it is the track that they've heard recently. They won't think that it's the original from years and years ago.

So finally, when you do take out the house, the house beat from it, I'll give a demonstration. They would have already got used to listening to the track. So as soon as the house beat comes out, they're more likely to stay on the dance floor, which then gives you the opportunity to completely change genres and go with the flow. So what we're going to be doing here is we're going to actually be playing a track that's up-to-date. It's from CDPool Club Issues. It's track two from disc number one, Shifty K3Y, Make It Good. It's the original mix. And we're going to be mixing it into a Chicago tune. Yep, I'll tell you the exact name. It is Chicago Street Player. Now some of you may be going, ah, don't drop down there.

2:04 For example we've got a track over here playing

Quite a few of you will be going, what the heck's he on about? So what can be going on? I'll play a little bit of this cut here, play some of that. I'll give you an idea of how we construct this sort of mix. Take you through steps. Do loops, do links. And then do what you want then. Also I'll explain, well you can do this on the fly as well. You can do this while you're in the mix. So for example we've got a track over here playing. We mix in this track but prior to mixing it in we get it ready. We form a loop. We set the loop onto a hot cue. So we know that at any time we can press that hot cue and we can have our loop playing. So again think about it, track playing over here. Get this track ready even before we've mixed this track in.

Set cue points, loops etc. Then we bring this track in. Then we get our old school track ready. And then when we're good to go we can then press the hot cue. Start our loop. Bring the old school track in. Keep headphones on. Make sure we're in beat with the old school track. And then slowly bring out the loop. And then we're left with an old school track that people are still dancing to going... But I thought it's alright, I might as well carry on. Which gives you then the opportunity to just go full on with like some 70s and stuff. OK. So let's just forget about playing this track. And mixing this one in. I'll play this track for you anyway. Nice sort of piano beginning. And what I'm going to do now... Imagine now, like I said earlier, we have the track over here that's playing.

So what I'm about to do now I would be doing on the headphones.

3:56 I mean it's full on

I mean it's full on. It's a very good tune. So what I'm gonna do now is just form some sort of a loop. Just listen to that again. This is on the fly. That's not bad. OK. So we've got that track playing. So we'll go into our old school tune. Right, I brought it out at that point because there was too much going on. If I hadn't have brought it out then it probably would have sounded terrible. But have a listen. Buckethead's the bomb. So another way of bringing in old school. Now the reason I've done this is because we have this track. You know... I would say there is a very good percentage of the people who you're going to be playing to will know the Buckethead's the bomb. There's maybe a certain amount who might remember the Chicago tune

But it doesn't really matter. The main thing is you've gone from one genre to the other which is exactly what this tutorial's about. Have fun. As I said, I'll put the names of the tracks in the description and practice and enjoy. There we go.

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