DJ Mixing Tutorial House CD Pool September 2021

0:01 In a future video, but it's

Right guys, a couple of tunes here from CDPool. These are the house releases. Also, it's a slight change now with CDPool. I will explain in a future video, but it's all good. So some of these tunes could be from the mid to latter part of August, some from September 2021. But again, the way I see it now with modern day dance music is we could have a track that's released today and you could pick it up two years from now and think it's amazing, play it to a crowd of people and they'll just go bonkers. Unbeknown to them, it's two years old. It's the same really with most dance music now. I'm sure, like me, I could find a tune from the 90s and go, wow, this sounds amazing. And yeah, find out. It's from like 2001.

It's from like 25 years ago or something ridiculous. So really, a lot of dance music now doesn't have a pigeonhole where you can say, oh, it's from 91, 92, 93. There are certain sounds where you can hear that they are from a certain era, but good producers will just bring their own sound in and make it so you can't pigeonhole what decade it's from. Anyway, track I've got here is Bronx Cheer Stripes. It's a track that I'm going to play for you tomorrow. So I'll give you a demo of what I'm going to do, then explain. Pretty simple. And it is. It is simple. One. Okay, so what we've got here again, you always have to think outside of the box. Now, everything I've shown you here, you can do on practically any controller out there.

So what I've got is the same track. Now, when you're using the same track on a controller like this, the same file, everything, what happens on the left should happen on the right. Now, again, I'm using... I'm using my phone. So if you're looking at this the wrong way around, I do apologise. But anyway, that's by the by. Okay, so what I've done, I've got a couple of hot cues here. Now, again, you can do this in the mix. So for example, I just accidentally touched that. You've got a track playing on the right. You bring in the track on the left and then you... No, actually, let's start again. You've got a track playing on the right. You get the track ready on the left. You set your hot cues, important, on the track on the left.

3:13 I'm letting the track play

Then while that's playing, you then load exactly the same file. That's important. Not the same track, the same file, which is, of course, the same track. You load that on the other side and then so long as you press the right buttons, you should be able to load up the identical hot cues that you've got from the one side onto the other. So basically what I'm doing here is... I'm letting the track play. I've set dial here to get one and I've got an echo channel up on that side, engage, bang, straight over the other side. Okay, so what I did there is, again, it's a really simple kind of move. This isn't rocket science. This isn't something for intermediate or advanced. Anyone can do this so long as you take your time

And just practice it, okay, and enjoy. Right, so again, we've got the left hand side. I've engaged the crossfade. All I'm going to do is hit the echo on the other side. So what I'm doing, if I can explain, is I am letting the one side play. I'm making sure I have the echo engaged on that side. I am starting the echo two, three, maybe on the four or maybe on the three, two, three, four. Let the echo play, bam, bam, you know, maybe twice, three times, four times. It depends on how much of an echo you've got. I will explain that very shortly and then in time you then just move the crossfade over and on the count of one start the other side. So this is quite well it is and it isn't simple. But if we take it to the next level, what we can do is then we can go from

Different hot cues from the track or inside the track. So, for example, let's say I had hot cue one at the beginning, hot cue two, 16 bars in, hot cue three, 32 bars in, hot cue four, 64 bars in and so on. I hope you get the idea there. Same on the other side. I could maybe use the echo from eight bars in on the one side, crossover and then hit a hot cue that will take me to 64 bars into the track and so on. Now, you just see me do it on the one side. We can do it on the other side as well. So here we go.

5:45 Another track

Okay, so I hope that's a help.

Let's have a look at another track here. This one here is Show Me The Night, the original mix by DJ 3J and Patrick Wayne. What a mouthful. Progressive feel to this tune, liking it, skip it forward a bit again with a lot of my videos sometimes there's a demo, there's a tutorial, but quite like to do is play some good old funky tunes and this is, this is a quite nice funky house tune and what does bring out the funk in a house tune is when you've got that really nice, funky appeal with the bass line.

7:07 Liking it, liking it, in a bit either one bar loop

Liking it, liking it, in a bit either one bar loop.

Let's imagine you don't know where to bring in the next track or you're a little bit concerned that you're going to be too late, too early and you're like, you're ready on the, on the cue button or the play pause to press play and you're like duh I'm too late or I'm too early. And the track's already started and by the time you've got it back and you've rewound it or you've cued up again, or you've poked your nose or you've, I don't know, chucked a brick through the next door neighbour's window, don't poke your nose. You realise that it's too late. Well, by doing, sorry, by doing the one bar loop means that so long as you start the track on the one, your loop. Anywhere inside the other one and you get out of that loop as soon

As you bring the track in, it's a no brainer. So if we listen here, nope, that was two beats. One, two, three, four.

9:15 Let's just put this back on, go back again to find something else

You see there's my loop. So let's just put this back on, go back again to find something else.

Okay. Um, I'm going to be at the BPM show that is in October. It's happening now. It's happening now. It's happening very soon, the next sort of two or three weeks, uh, I'll be helping out on the CD pool stand. Uh, also just doing my random kind of shit. So check out, I'll put a link in the description to the CD pool web, sorry, CD pool website as well as the BPM show. And it'd be great to see you there. It's all things DJ related. So it'd be nice to see you and I'll leave it with this. What a nice tune. My destiny, very good. Happy filter this practice and enjoy.

Thank you.

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