DJ Mixing Lesson on a Transition in the Middle of a Track

0:00 First of all the demonstration

Alright guys, demonstration stroke tutorial. First of all the demonstration. We have Funky One on the left and we have on the right hand side Mark Tosayo. I think that's how you pronounce it. First of all the demonstration then the explanation. Okay so, give you a good idea of how the two tracks sound. Not using headphones for this demonstration as well okay. Okay you saw me messing around first of all. Well that was just to get... Now, again, it's always a great idea, not all the time, sometimes it's entirely up to you, to do a mix inside the track, not beginning and end all the time. So what I try to do is find a part, the beginning of a phrase in Funky One that matched the other track. This is a very quick transition. We didn't fade the right hand track in, we didn't do much really. What we did do though is we took the bass out on the left hand side. Now even though we were at the break, let's have a listen to Funky 1 from point A. I've just spun it back prior to the beginning of the break.

Now even though we've got the bass line still going, the beat stopped. What I wanted to do, I wanted to get all of the bass sounds out of that track. So listen to it first of all with the EQ all at 12 o'clock. Now I'm going to play from pretty much the same point but this time I'm going to take the low away as soon as we get... To that transition point, the beginning end of a phrase. All right we've got remnants of the bass in the background but it's more like a mid sound because what I did I took away the low. Now this is what the other track sounds like from my hot cue point. Now let's go back a little bit and see what it sounds like prior to that. Okay so pretty much all I'm doing I am taking elements of one track

And swapping them for the elements of the other. So on the Mark Tosayo track, we have beat and bass line with a bit of melody at this point here, there. And on the Funky One track from here. If I take away the bass, all we've got left pretty much is some form of vocals.

4:36 One, two, three, four

Okay, let's do that transition again. One, two, three, four. Very little bit, but I try to experiment. Hope you get the general idea. Check out the link in the description to Karmic Power Records, practice and enjoy. A bit of a tune this one. By the way, what are you doing very soon in September? 13th, 14th, I think it's 13th, 14th, no 11th, 12th and 13th, sorry, of September 2016. Come and check. The BPM show in the NEC in Birmingham. There will be a link in the description to the BPM website as well. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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