DJ Mixing Lesson on the Drop and Adding a Loop CD Pool Dance April 2017

0:00 Got some more new releases for you from CDPool

Alright guys, got some more new releases for you from CDPool. We're looking at the dance releases for April 2017. Also, I don't know, a few tips and tricks here. Now very quickly as well, I'm using the XDJ-RX. I'm not using CD, so I'm just going to give you the names of the tracks. I know I rant on about this, but it is a very good controller. So, if you're thinking of investing in a controller, then maybe look at the RX. Why? Well, a lot of controllers out there, first of all, you can only use a laptop and if your laptop stops working or all of a sudden decides to update or something like that, you're buggered. But, with the RX, you don't have that problem. Let's imagine... You are using a laptop. So, you've got your laptop plugged in and you're only using files from a laptop.

If that starts updating or the laptop stops working, then so long as you've got a USB with a few tunes on, you can just swap straight over to USB. Alternatively, if you've got a CD player plugged in, you can switch to CD. Alternatively again, you can switch to a vinyl turntable. Now, not only that... But... Let's imagine that you're halfway through your set and you want to use a piece of vinyl. Well, you can. You don't have to stop and go, excuse me members of the public, I'm just going to unplug cables and start pissing around with no volume. You can go from one format to the other live during a set and not have to worry about problems with volume dipping in and out and cables all over the place. So, this is a great feature about it.

Also, you can record on the right-hand side. Not only that, but if you use the Rekordbox software and you've got a couple of USBs in... I don't know, 32, 64 gig. You don't really have to have anything else. You don't need a laptop. You don't need vinyl turntables. You don't need CD players. You just turn up with your USBs, a controller like this and away you go. No need for a laptop. Love it! This one here is for a day. The extended mix from the dance releases April 2017. Now, what I've done here is I've set a loop. I want for you... It's the Ben Pierce remix. Have a listen. Okay, so what I'm going to do here is close to the beginning of For A Day. There's a bit of a break. So, I'll go to that point now. There.

Alright, so let's mess around here now. I've got a loop. What I'm going to do, I'm going to turn the filter to around about the 3 o'clock position. Let's have a listen to our loop. Okay, that doesn't sound too bad. I'm going to press play. Tap in time. Let's add a bit of an echo. Okay, so we can have the echo there as well. So, I'm going to press play again on For A Day.

3:41 This is what it sounds like with no loop added

All I did there, I added a loop from one track over the break of the other to give it another kind of layer. Now let's go back to that break. Now this is what it sounds like with no loop added. Now I'm going to add it.

Okay, so what I was doing, I was almost adding the melody of one track to the other. Now this is the very, very important part here. The melody is paramount. If the melodies don't work, don't do it. Okay, so For A Day, let's go out to that loop and I Wait For You, the Ben Pearce remix. Let's just go a little bit forward. Go towards the end of this.

6:16 Going to bring in uber extended mix

Going to bring in uber extended mix. A bit of gate on there. New feel, new vibe. Now what I like about the gate effect is it's exactly like a gate. The more the gates open, the more can come through it. The less the gate is open, the less that can go through it. So you imagine two fields. One full of sheep, the other one empty. Open that gate, all the sheep pass through quite easily. Start to close it and they all get stuck. In other words, you can only let a few in. Okay. Let's take it a little bit. Just so you're safe, I don't need a birth certificate. And you're my size and you an idiot. You can't be stepping to this one when that's deliberate. But come down and let's just see. When I'm free with the friends and the VIP.

I'm on the flex on the ground with the man in the hand. But at the end of the night she want to come with me. I said, mmm, come to the hotel. I've got a few ideas I could use her. She don't want to ride around in a black car. She want to get picked up in a uber. Come to the hotel. I've got a few ideas I could use her. She don't uber. Okay. It's the original mix. And by the way, as well, I don't know if I mentioned that I downloaded these from the CD4 website. So you don't just have to get the CDs. You can get the download version of the new releases per month as well. Okay. Again, a very quick and simple drop in time and in phrase. Bearing in mind as well that the track I'm playing now, chained to the rhythm, is on a one beat.

Okay. So I'm playing it on a two, three point four BPM. And Take The World was on one, two, five. Sorry. Yeah. One, two, five point two BPM. So I would not have been able to beat match those. But so long as I chop from one to the other straight away, it's going to work. Even if, I mean you can do this kind of chop. Even with say from 100 BPM to 160 BPM. As long as you, you know your chop is in time with a phrase. That's very important. I mean alright you can chop anywhere during the track. But it may sound a little bit messy and haphazard. So for example the track on the right hand side. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Left one. One, two, three, four. You don't want to do something like this. Right hand side.

One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. And then left hand side. Three, four. One, two, three, four. Very important. Always try and bring your next cut in on the one. Okay finish off with this one. Change to the rhythm. Don't forget there will be info in the description on the CDpool website. And all being well I'm going to be doing a live mix via my Facebook page on the XDJ-RX live stream this evening. So I'll put a link down below. A link to my Facebook page. And hopefully if I do get a few friend requests they won't be from ladies with big boobies. I'm getting loads of those at the moment and it's all spam. Anyone who actually befriends any of these women who've got rather large boobies

You're a nutcase because it's all spam. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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