DJ Random Mixing Lesson with Arabic Dance Music BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:01 In this video we're going to do random sort of mix with Arabic music

Alright guys, in this video we're going to do random sort of mix with Arabic music. The LP I'm using is the Arabian Club Night No. 2, this video is going out to Lee Mills as well as the Dubai DJ Academy. If you want to go and be inspired and have some lessons, then follow the link in the description. Go and check them out, I'm going to be there next week, teaching people in Dubai how to become a DJ. So there is the CD, let's have a listen to track number 3, One Night in Tunis, which is number 3, it's CD 1, Antonio Carmani and Ray Campbell. As presents, Karayak, One Night in Tunis.

2:29 It's weighing forward a little bit

You see we can have so much fun with this sort of music. We've got also track 4 here from disc number 2 which is Jerome Hicks' track entitled Shake. So for example, start playing this, and I can if I want to maybe add more with this track. So we could... I sort of thought about this video earlier, could have added an acapella over the top of this. It's weighing forward a little bit. Let's bring this one back in because the next tune I'm going to bring in is from disc 1 again. Flavour going and this sort of vibe, it's almost like tribal in a way. I like it, I do like it. We've got a break coming there, so let's try and bring it over the break. Arabian Sensationist, we're going to practice with this. For the beginning I'm just going to turn the volume down off.

It was on, it was in time but it wasn't in the right phrase. So let's just cue that up. Let's have a listen to the beginning of this and let's work out the structure of the tune. You see we've got two bars. Now in normal dance music or in most modern day dance music it's 4, 8, 16. Here we've got 2 so I have to work out the right point to bring that in to have it in time from the... where the structure's concerned, not just in time BPM. I've got to try and bring it in so it works with the overall structure of this track. So let's have a listen to this track here. First of all we need to... All the time while I'm doing a mix I'm thinking, I'm trying to imagine what's going to happen in the track because a lot of tracks, most tracks are pretty much the same the way they're constructed

But sometimes, like over there, slightly different. So let's have a listen to this.

Now that could be the beginning of... It's definitely the beginning of a bar but it could be the beginning of a phrase, it could be the middle of a phrase. So let's start counting from there.

8:01 We've got 2 there, we've got 4 there

So we have 4 bars then we have another like that. So we've got 2 there, we've got 4 there. Work that one out sucker. Divide it by 7 minus 6 subtract 8. Fish, start off with a tin of Coca-Cola, divide it by 7. BMW, Audi, Quattro. Take away potatoes, add 3 eggs. It's 2 in it, alright. So, get a piece of paper. Think of something. When you do something else and you go what the hell was it I did? Write it down and remember. Also write down the track names, the album, the point at which it happened as well so then you can refer back to what you've written. Practice and enjoy.

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