DJ Mixing Lesson on Adding a Loop to Compliment a Mix & Info on CDJ2000 Nexus 2

0:00 First of all a demonstration, then an explanation

Alright guys, first of all a demonstration, then an explanation. At the end of the demonstration I'll be talking a little bit about the new Pioneer kit, more importantly, the Nexus No. 2. Tracks I'm using are from Karmic Power Records. Bear with me as well because I'll be skipping through the tracks. So imagine we've played a track on this side and we're bringing in this track here, we've brought in this track and the crowd are jumping around enjoying themselves and I'm going to skip towards the latter part of this track now because this is where we're really going to concentrate on the demonstration stroke tutorial. So we're going to go towards the end of the track.

1:52 You want to hear instrumental music

You have a secret to tell you tonight, I have a secret to tell you tonight. You want to hear instrumental music.

Quite a bit that was going on there and hopefully I'll be able to explain it. Now first of all what I did, now let's imagine we had a track playing on the left hand side. Now while that track was playing, I would have, which is the first track you heard, formed a loop towards the end of the track, set that on hot cue. Which I did. So we have a track playing, sorry, we're playing this track, okay? We're coming towards the end of this track and then we bring in the hot cue which is a loop. Now the whole idea of that is to tie in the next track so we played that loop, we brought in another track on this side. Now again you've got to think in advance. While this track is playing, you've already got that loop, I also then formed a hot cue on that track.

4:59 We're almost trying to let that loop be a bit like the glue

I will show you that in a little bit. So while this loop was playing, I brought in this track here over that loop and then I brought in that hot cue that jumped the break. Let that track play, brought in the loop again on the first track and then brought in another track. So. We're almost trying to let that loop be a bit like the glue. It's a bit like having two slices of bread and that loop is the sandwich. Now we could have let that loop go on for as long as we wanted. And depending on how quick you are, you can bring in the next track as quick as you want over the loop. So I don't know if you've heard but quite a few tracks sometimes that you think, do you know, I know that song. They used to do this quite a lot in the late 80s, early 90s where they'd have a track playing

7:26 See how it sort of gels it together

And they would just add a drum loop over the top of that track and class it as a remix. It wasn't really. It was just a track with a drum loop over the top. That's pretty much it. So if I just go back to. That's pretty much it. Now if I wanted to we could do something like this. Let's go back to the beginning of the track. So they're just playing together. Now have a listen without loop. With. It's giving it another dimension. Filter it out. Add it back in. All I'm doing there on the mixer is watch here. See how it sort of gels it together. What's happening is that loop is gelling two tracks together. Okay, so I hope that has been a help and what it should do or hopefully will do is give you a little bit of more of an inspiration into adding another dimension to your mixes.

Okay, so I'll let that play in the background. This one here is nothing but the extended mix. Check it out from Karmic Power Records. The link will be down there. Thank you very much to, of course, Seleni Fontana for letting me use his tunes on YouTube. Okay, so Pioneer have brought out, they released, I think it was yesterday, an exclusive about the new Pioneer Nexus Number 2. Now if you're not familiar with the Nexus series then you must be either, well, you must be from another planet or maybe you've just been born and all of a sudden you've got loads of brains and you can understand what I'm saying. But two, actually no, I'll talk about one really good feature with the Nexus Number 2 is banks of hot cues.

Two lots of four banks of hot cues. Which is a wondrous, it's a joyous thing. I mean, I have wanted that for so many years. The original CDJ Mark, CDJ-1000 had three. Then it did the 2000 that had three. The Nexus had three. Now the Nexus Mark 2 has got two sets. So you've got eight hot cues. So imagine the fun. Also small point as well, reverse and forward. There's a little bit in between where it can sit, where you can go into slip mode and have some serious fun with that as well. Now something I need to talk about which is very important and could potentially save you a lot of money and also a lot of sleepless nights. There will always be new kit out. Now what I want you to do is I want you to relate to the time

10:40 This kit here is exceptionally good quality

When you possibly bought your CDJ-2000 and the Nexus came out. Especially if you bought them a week or two weeks prior to the Nexus coming out. You probably were kicking yourself like that. But think about the people now who possibly have bought the Nexus two, three weeks ago and now are kicking themselves because they should have waited for the Nexus Mark 2. You're going to go out some of you and go and buy the Nexus Mark 2 and also the new DJM-900. But you have to remember that there will undoubtedly in the future be more new kit from Pioneer and the other companies. So what do you do? Do you go home and cry and shoot yourself or do you think well I bought it, put up with it. This kit here is exceptionally good quality.

I'm sure the Nexus 2 is exceptionally good quality but a year or two years from now there will be a Nexus 3 or there will be a CDJ-3000. It is inevitable and it's the same with any piece of kit or software or hardware or whatever out there. There will always be the next iPhone 7. You've got to check that video out. Anyone out there who complained about it look at the description if it's got nothing to do with DJing and it's from me and you're only into DJing then you're the one who will press play, not me. So if you only want DJing stuff then I suggest you only watch my DJing stuff. I will be putting random videos out there comedy videos and talking about loads of crap. So practice and enjoy and thank you very much to Mr Lenny Fontana

From Karmic Power Records also Manuel, sorry Manuel I think how you pronounce it all the way, I believe he's in Germany. I look forward to seeing you all I look forward to seeing you guys in hopefully Vegas in March at the Mobile Beat Show it's the 25th year I'll be representing V-Moda and I'll finish off here with practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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