DJ Mixing Lesson on Chopping from One Tune to the Other No Need to Beat Mix

0:00 This video is all about chopping from one tune to the other

Alright guys, this video is all about chopping from one tune to the other. We're going to do two chops from three tracks. Now if you're not very good at beatmixing or beatmatching and doing smooth transitions, using this kind of style it's very easy to get a good smooth mix but at the same time not having to do a mix. All you're doing is you're chopping from one track to the other. What you will need to do though is find the correct points in a track to chop from one to the other. So we've got here the Beat Freaks, a track entitled Someone's Watching Me. Now that is playing, that's happily playing away so if we were let's say in a working environment you wouldn't be able to stop and start that kind of track or that track.

So if we now play Captain Jack, it's a track entitled Give It Up, the 2013 Clean Extended. Press play. What I'm going to do is I need to find a point in this track where I can have a smooth transition or a smooth cut from one track to the other and keep the flow, the vibe, the continuity and the timing. Now you'll notice as well it's very similar to the next track I'm going to be playing which is Good Feelings so again I'm trying to think in advance. What I'm going to do is set a hot cue in a little bit. Have a listen. 1, 2, 3, 4. Counting 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. I'm using the DDJ-SX by the way from Kyno, that's the hardware, software, virtual DJ, the pro version. 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. There. 2, 3, 4. You'll notice as well I hit hot cue on the count of one. Now that is my point where I'm going to be playing.

2:06 We'll go back to Beat Fruits

I'm going to go from one track to the other. We'll go back to Beat Fruits. Again what I'm going to do here, I'm going to try and listen to a good point where I can bring in the next track maybe at the end of a verse, the end of a chorus, maybe at the end of an instrumental break. Not half way through. For example not somewhere like here. I could if I wanted to but let's wait for the end of the chorus. There. Much better. Much better. Alright. So we'll bring that one down. That was playing quite happily. I'm now going to go to Flowrider, Good Feeling and I'm going to do exactly the same with this. So that track's playing so we're doing this in real time now. So this is what I would be listening for and doing on my headphones.

4:13 Bang straight into the next one

Let's have a listen. 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. Okay so we've got another hot cue there. We'll go back over to Captain Jack. Right I'm going to wang this forward a little bit because this track here is the extended version so let's go towards the end of it. This is what the end sounds like. That's the end chorus there. Where it goes that end there, the end of the chorus, there's probably a good point to bring it in. Listen. So I need to bounce. 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. There you go. Bang straight into the next one. Now you'll notice or you should have noticed I didn't touch the pitch. Nothing like that. I haven't got, I don't think I've got sync on there.

No I haven't. But, oh maybe I have. And I didn't mean to but there you go. Alright well anyway I didn't touch the pitch. I didn't see if there was sync on there but The whole emphasis here is just to show you that you don't have to concentrate on beat matching or anything like that. If you can't do it, don't worry about it. The main point is timing. It's making sure that the tracks work also. It's making sure that you bring the next track in at a good point and also when you bring the next track in you don't leave the other track playing. It's switch, bang, bang straight from one to the other. Hope it's been a help. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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