DJ Tutorial Counting Drum n Bass ( counting fast!)

0:00 In this video we're going to count drum and bass

Alright guys, in this video we're going to count drum and bass. We're going to mix that track in with that one, but counting. Now normally you count 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4 as in a bar, but using this particular technique you can do that a lot quicker. You don't just have to count a bar and put a line for one bar. It does take a bit of practice, but if you use your ears and listen to the change in the music, you will be able to count. Now instead of me doing... 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, like so. I'm going to count groups of bars. Now first of all, I'm going to spin this particular tune. By the way, look in the description for the name of that tune. We'll class that as tune number one and this one over here is tune number two. It will be in the description. Right, first of all, what I'm going to do, I'm going to do a spinny thing.

When I spin the record very fast, and I want you to listen to the changes in the music even when it's going exceedingly fast, like not even a 78, it's probably going a 365 and a quarter and a half speed stuff Ferrari thing. Right, so... Oh, marvellous! Hold on, have a listen. Right, I don't know if you heard, but even at that speed there were changes, slight subtle changes in the music. Now guess what? All that would have been in time with the bars, but of course, logically, if we were going to sort of... I said, but you know, people say, you always say logically. Well, do you know what? I base a lot of my stuff on logic, because that's what it's about, right? Right, we'd be there all day, wouldn't we? One, two, three, four. One, two... I mean, you know, you don't have a bath and wash under your arms by the time you come back and finish this. So...

2:01 We've got a beat

What I'm going to do now is stop it again, and I'm going to start counting. And I'm going to start putting little lines here for groups of phrases, not bars, as follows. Here we go. Thank you for watching! Right, so we've got a beat. Now how many of these have we got? Now excluding that one there because that was my jiggly bit to begin with. We had 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. I'm looking at that actually. You know what I could do? I could do a little line across there. I could do a nice tree there, fluffy tree and I could do some hills and guess what? We've got a fence. Just kidding. Right. Don't take offence. Right, okay, so we're going to do exactly the same with this one over here now, but what I'm going to do, there's the break. I don't know if you can see that nice little shiny bit. That's the break in the track, so I'm going to put that there. Do exactly the same thing. I'm going to start counting from that point, but I'm going to count exactly the same as I did with the other tune. So, here we go. Start again.

7:16 In essence, we've got 20 there and we've got 24 there

I lost it, said the bishop to the actress. DJ tutorial by Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. Oh, fuck. Oh, shit. Oh, God, I'm going to leave that in. Oh, sod it. Right. Don't normally swear. That was funny. Right, OK. So what am I going to have to do? Right, I'm going to forget the doodly-dip-jib-jibs. I'm just going to, like, point stuff. See, I'm losing it now. Right, calm down. Breathe. Ground yourself. Right, sorted. Mad, isn't it? Right, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, start again. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. So, in essence, we've got 20 there and we've got 24 there. To, right, we were going to mix this one in with that one over there, weren't we? So, in a sense, probably an ideal thing to do is, well, we could do loads of things. We could like put them underneath the grill, turn them upside down or turn them around like that and a holy bit in the middle you can make them into plant pots but it's not really a good idea. What is a good idea possibly...

Is to let this one play four, four locks of that... and then bring that one in after four, and guess what? Theoretically, as soon as we come out of the break here, which is the part where it goes bosh, that one should finish. So should we try it? OK, fine, fair enough. Right, here we go, so I'm going to put that over there, and I'm going to play this one from that particular point where it starts... But remember we're doing 4 lots of those long bits, so...

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