DJ Mixing Lesson on Finding a Tune to Change or Keep the Vibe

0:00 Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor

Alright guys, Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor. First of all, if you're interested in having a Stormtrooper hat like this, handmade by my partner Yvette Brooks, then check out the link in the description. It'll take you to her Facebook page known as Wonderbugs, where she could potentially send one to you anywhere around the world and each one is handmade. There it is. May the 4th be with you. Alright, in this video what I'm going to do, we have a track here by Boris Douglas, a track entitled Keep On Pushing. I'm going to select different tracks on this side that will give the mix a different feel. It will give the mix a constant kind of feel where the vibe is the same. We may have a mix where the vibe will be lifted slightly or the vibe will drop. Let's have a look, let's have a feel.

And I want you as well to put in a comment how you think the mix made you feel. Now this is important because this does involve you big time. It involves you because when you're constructing your mix, you may want the crowd to be uplifted. So you need to find a tune that will uplift them. You may want them to just stay on that sort of vibe that they're on, which means of course you try and find another tune that will keep them at that vibe. You may want them to go a bit deeper. We may want them to go happy and euphoric. So this demonstration is about doing just that. Now, let's just leave that there. Okay, let's have a listen to a few more tracks and see what we can come up with. Okay, so you see, right, you see that, right? The Boris Douglas tune is it's got that nice kind of bass line.

2:37 Form loop

And this one here, this is the electric wiggle original mix. It's very, it's much more deeper and soulful and mellow and laid back. So I'm sure if I did a transition from Boris to the wiggle tune, it would be the mix would take the people down a few pegs. So let's so let's try that. Now, I would also be inclined as well. It's not just easy as up chuck it together. I'd also be inclined to mix this one in towards the end of the song. boris de gluche so the idea there is to let the people have the vibe of borish and it's sort of the vibes sort of going towards the end of the tune and you know they're starting to feel what's happening what's gonna what is the dj gonna bring to the table next which is

Of course a more deeper soulful vibe so let's try that so i'm gonna wang towards the end yeah there so keep pushing the volume decrease quite a bit put the trim up slightly compensate for that now what i could do here link now i'll tell you what i'm going to listen this is where it gets so interesting and it's so much fun doing a mix because i'm going to form a loop now i haven't got record box these files are just bungled in a folder here we go so i'm going to form a loop because i reckon a loop of that tiny bit of drum loop uh drum sample should i say or the the drums at the end of keep pushing would work really well if we could just carry that on a little bit more in the mix so let's go back to where i started the mix

Okay

Still got the bass line in the background there all right listen all right this this again is a demonstration all right i'm using the rx and because i haven't used record box of course the loops aren't going to be perfect but what i want you to imagine visualize is that loop just going on in the background that would work really well over the eric eric dyslexia is flipping terrible some some tims um electric wiggle so let's carry on playing this a little bit so you get the idea the vibe tune okay let's go back to keep pushing and no we're gonna go back to keep pushing okay all right we've gone to some completely different okay so we know that tune all right let's find something else now let's see if we can find another tune

Uh that will take the mix on a different vibe you see to me now this tune here this is going to make people sort of wake up a little bit so like oh we've got something it's almost like that seriously this is sometimes how i i listen to a track and it it brings up new feels new vibes it like this to me is like spiky boop boops it is it is like someone prodding you with sort of like nothing spiky but just sort of like sponges and you know sort of cushions but it's not like i'm prodding you like that sorry no i'm not on drugs okay but where do we bring it in the mix not there definitely that's too much that would be too uh in your face too abrupt all right how does this track actually start okay so let's go towards the last break

More bouncy instead of like the last one which is a little bit more deep okay let's go back to keep on pushing there we're playing that let's have a listen see what else we've got here

No you see to me now that it's just no it's just no sorry no okay disco-y kind of thing um

Maybe but i i wouldn't personally not say you wouldn't

Similar mix

It's almost like we'll be getting onto the same feel but then slightly more soulful

Okay but let's try something else just try something uh we might have the correct amount of bars from the beginning to the first drop the same amount of bars on the second from last phrase with keep pushing where the bass line stops and you just get that break down so i'll just show you that point there so this is the

The set block cue there let's try this one okay

Last break again magical one minute roughly in the last 32 bars roughly

Definitely this kind of mix we've gone from something nice and smooth to just like yes but what i tried to do there because we've gone from one track that's you know it's got a nice sort of vibe to it to something that's sort of a little bit more dynamic than the original music but that's that's sort of full on energy wise keep pushing five to six uh waiting for the esquire house life remix is more like a seven to eight the last thing you want to do is have an abrupt change from one straight to the other because your energy levels are just going to go straight through the roof we've just because we've had that loop and we've made the transition longer the transition has given the energy level more time to change now that is important right i hope that's been a help

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