DJ Phrase Mixing Lesson and CD Pool New Releases Global July 2016

0:00 In the background we have a tune from cdpool.com from The Global Relea

Right guys, in the background we have a tune from cdpool.com from The Global Releases. You are listening to The Global Releases for July 2016. A bit of a demo of the tunes and also it's a tutorial on learning how to work out phrasing in a track relatively simply. Now I'm going to go back, let's all go back to when you were at school and you were messing around with pens and paper. The teacher would give you a piece of paper, loads of pens and say draw something. Now of course you drew a tree, a house, a lorry, a duck, amphibious landing craft, doesn't matter. But what you were doing, you were subconsciously having that image in your mind and putting that image down onto paper. I'm now going to show you how you can do exactly that.

But doing it in a way that will make it more easy and more pleasurable for you. Of course learning how to mix. Mixing in Phrase, this one here is track 1 from disc 1. I'm going to be bringing in track number 3 from disc number 2.

Let's go to about sort of there-ish. Now I'm not mixing in phrase now. Todd, Terry and Gypsy Men, this one here is track number 3 from disc number 2. That was track number 1 from disc number 1. Okay so mixing in phrase.

1:50 What I'm going to do, I'm going to draw you a picture

Right what I'm going to do, I'm going to draw you a picture. And this picture... I need you to have in your mind, keep it in your mind. It's a really easy picture to remember. It is very simple. That's it. That is it. Okay. Now let's have a listen to the track. Let's listen to a point where there's a definite change in the track. Listen. Okay here we go. 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4 Alright let's turn that down. time I seem to go up and down there was like a little change in the music something different happened now in phrase mixing we are counting of course one two three four what we're also counting is groups of

Four now we're not just counting like I don't know random pick a number like the producers say go I'll have three over there will have seven over there will have two there one there and then Oh bunging 13 over there music 99.99% of dance music or in fact most modern-day tracks are structured fours eight 16s and 32s so let's have a look at my sort of step here now for the partially sighted what I have drawn is almost like steps now again if you're partially sighted imagine walking up steps but also at the same time imagine only walking up one two three four now first of all as well I need to make it quite clear I'm not starting from the bottom I'm starting from the first step that's quite important of course we could start from the bottom

5:14 Four three, three four, three disc

But in this picture I've started to count from the first step so of course for the partially sighted when you're on that first step that first step is the count of one the next one to the next one three the next one four , and then when we get to the top what we're doing is we're not going to number five we're actually going on the same step but moving over that step so five is the same step as four but then six is down one seven is down one and eight is down one and then we carry on again so what you have to do you have to picture in your mind steps one two three four the same and then down down and down so one two three four. three four five six seven eight if you picture in your mind groups of steps like that and relate that counting to the music you will find that there will

Be changes sometimes they're very subtle it could be like a ch or a pfff or a ring or a pfff but it's going to there is going to be a change alright so we've had track three from disc number two I'm going to do a random flick to track number three from disc one and let's have a listen let me try with this track okay okay where that there we go where we had that brass starting I'm going to start counting from there so here's my picture track three disc number one William Rosario taking over my soul okay so one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four

One two three four one two three four one two three four taking over my soul there you go.

There was a change there it was it wasn't subtle subtle from a scale of 1 to 10 that was about a 5 okay the subtle ones is where it's a 1 or a 2 where it's just like a pshh wang or as I showed you earlier on okay track number 3 from dis number one sorry let's get a track number five here from dis number two this one's entitled Saboroso the mixer this one is track number five from dis number one antihistamines but it's not doing anything keep on saying to me you should have antihistamines it'll stop you having a runny nose and my argument is this happens maybe five times a year and you know I don't just want to take antihistamines all the time for the hell of it and if I knew I was gonna have something like this happen I'd take it in the morning which I did

10:18 Link description, phrase mixing, anything

But it was too late because I was already sniffing okay so again phrase mixing if you can picture in your mind this step up and step down try and get it in your mind get it get this image into your mind and it will help you to try or it'll help you remember phrase mixing it's about listening as well as seeing so you see in your mind and you listen through your ears okay I 'm gonna finish off with track number two from dis number two Brian Power presents Lloyd Wade okay so don't forget check out the link in the description to cdpool.com now also the global releases are targeted for the DJs who like your soulful garagey mellow four to the floor vibe okay and also if you're not doing anything in September come and check out cdpool.com at the BPM show in the NEC I

Believe it's the 11th 12th and 13th of September I will put a link in the description as well to the BPM show it's anything and everything to do with DJs you know if you like kit if you like lighting if you like PA you're like productions music anything to do with DJing then be there a lot of top producers and also top DJs go there as well practice and enjoy thank you

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