DJ Phrase Mixing and Hyping up the Vibe Club August 2018

0:01 Some more CDPool stuff here

Alright guys, some more CDPool stuff here. We've got the Club August 2018 tracks. Now, the tracks I've got here are in alphabetical order, so at the moment I've got track 1 in alphabetical order, which is Deep In Your Heart, it's the VIP extended mix. If you want any information on any of these tracks, don't hesitate, go to cdpool.com, go to the page, Club August 2018, they're all there. Not only these tracks as well, you get soundbites of all of the other tracks, so you can have a little skip through all of them, not just the ones I'm playing. Okay, so let's do a beginning and end mix here, but in phrase. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to go towards the end of Deep In Your Heart. Now first of all for the beginner, what is a phrase?

Well a phrase is a section of a particular track. Now a phrase is an amount of bars, a bar is the count of 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. So, a phrase isn't a random amount of bars, as in it could be 3 here and 7 there and 2 there and 8 there and 9 there and 1 there. In dance music, 99.999% of the time a phrase is 4s, sometimes 2 if let's say it's a radio version. More than likely, if it's the extended, it's going to be 8, 16, sometimes 24, sometimes 32. And those are the magic numbers. If you can get those numbers inside your head, you can't go wrong. Okay. Okay, let's go. Which way do we get change?

Drum pattern.

3:14 I'm going to find something else now

Okay, this one's Slip. I'm going to find something else now. Let's go all the way to the bottom.

Quite a nice airy fairy kind of tune here. I'm going to bring this one in anyway. I'm going to pull that down. The reason very simply is it's one of those tunes that's quite big at the moment and it's rather good. It's very funky. It's very soulful, but at the same time, it's just got that push, that really good vibe. It's move time to get loose now in brackets what I like about a lot of house and club and dance music at the moment is a lot of the producers are now incorporating old school South soul samples yet again, giving it a good old disco vibe. Okay, this one, no exception.

4:49 84 BPM speed up all

I split forward a bit at the moment. I'm on plus and minus 16%. So what that means is, let's imagine there was a track I was playing the track at 100 BPM and I slowed it all the way down. I'd slow it down 16% so we go to 84 BPM speed up all the way. It would go to 116 BPM. Now this track sounds great. It's at its original speed, but here's a tip for you if you want to give your tracks more vibe, firstly, make sure you have master tempo or key lock engaged. If you don't, then it's not only going to Well, it will change the track immensely. All right, and you don't want that to happen, but with master tempo key lock engaged, what you can do is some tracks speed up quite a bit and you just give it one hell of a lot more energy.

Just listen to the difference. Normal speed, pause it, speed it up now. Listen so much better, but listen when I take off master tempo, you have to be so careful if you're going to disengage master tempo. But again, what you can do. For another level of mixing is let's imagine you have a track in a certain key and you have another track in a different key, but those keys won't match, believe it or not. But if you take away master tempo off one of them and you speed one slow one down or speed the other one up, you're able to match them by key, even though they're not in key to begin with a lot more technical, but it is possible. So let's continue with move on. We'll find. Something else on the other side.

Okay, I'm going to bring this one forward a bit.

I'm not gonna play that one.

Let's drop this next one in. It's you don't believe in love.

8:13 A nice kind of happy, uplifting vibe here

A nice kind of happy, uplifting vibe here. The piano riffs sometimes in tracks just give it that sort of smiley energy. This one here, no exception. Now looking at this track, this is four minutes and three seconds long, so this is on the verge of being. Whoops! Sorry. Knocking the camera. This is on the verge of being a radio edit. Now what you've got to be careful of with shorter tracks is that the phrasing will also be shorter, so the phrasing generally in an extended mix of a track and again we've got move is four minutes 38 generally radio tracks. The phrasing will be two bars and four bars extended more like 816 2432, so always be wary of that because what you'll find is. Your transition points will appear a lot quicker than, let's say the extended version.

Let's go back to you don't believe in love.

Now again with a lot of tracks as you're playing, well not all of them actually, as you're playing them, you're messing around in your room or wherever, have a listen to them. What sort of energy do they give you? Do they give you like this kind of that needs to be at the beginning of the set or maybe they give you an energy like, you know, that's the middle of the set or maybe the end. Now this one here. To me, this sort of track you play, especially the beginning of it. It sounds like, you know, you've taken the people down there on that little journey and all of a sudden you want to bring them back up again. Bang. This one would work. Definitely has changed the field completely going to finish off the last track which is entitled All Night The Metric Remix, but I can't take your wake up and make you feel brand new.

Very interesting. Again. Another. The four minute track. So the phrasing is going to be a lot smaller.

Once again, don't forget, check out the link in the description to CD4.com and these are the club releases for August 2018. All of the tracks will be on that page and you get sound bites from every single one of them. Practice and enjoy.

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