DJ Mixing Lesson on Three Turntables BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor No SYNC!

0:00 I'm going to give you a demonstration of 3-deck mixing

Alright guys, I'm going to give you a demonstration of 3-deck mixing. What we've got, we've got a track on the right hand side, a track on the far left hand side, and what in the middle is an acapella. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the acapella as the cement, or the jam in the sandwich. It's going to bring the two together. So the objective here is we've got a mix, a beatmatched mix going with the two tracks. One on the right, one on the left. One on the right is playing at the moment now. I'm going to bring towards the end of the one on the right and the one on the left. And then the one in the middle here, we're going to bring the acapella in during the mix. Now, when you're doing 3 or 4-deck mixing, it's very, very important to make sure that the track is in the middle.

The tracks are relatively minimalistic, because if you've got a big tune on deck 1, a big tune on deck 2, and a big tune on deck 3, they're big tunes. You put three big tunes together and you're just going to have a mishmash of god knows what. So try and find tracks that are, let's say they've got all the elements of a good tune, but if you added another track on top, the one wouldn't overpower the other track. And again, if you think about adding a third one, you're adding more elements again, so you don't want to overdo it. So let's have a listen to the acapella. I had the acapella on my headphones as well then. Okay, let's just have a listen to the end of this track. Alright, so this is slightly more difficult than meets the eye gulp, because the acapella doesn't start on the 1.

2, 3, 4, 1. So it actually starts the bar before. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. So in a way that's, it's good and bad. It's bad because you've got to make sure you bring it at the right time. It's good because it means I can start that off and let it play for one bar and then bring the next track in. So again, there could be some mistakes here, but this is the sort of thing you would do like I am now at home practising with, the image there on the wall of the camera. So let's try this out. Let's just go back a little bit.

4:03 I pressed the wrong button

I did actually want to press that. I pressed the wrong button. Bang, bring it out. It's a demonstration. That's what this is. But by adding an acapella, I almost tried to gel the two tracks together. In a way, I covered over the mix. So the mix is there. But the acapella seems to disguise the mix. Right, I hope that's been a help and I'll finish off as ever with practice and enjoy. Thank you. Demarcus Lewis, Electric. And what you did here on this side was Dave Meyer and Husky featuring Erin Marshall, We Rise Together. That was Booty Love, Some Kind of Rush.

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