DJ Tutorial, Going from a minimal genre to a full on one..... sort of thing demonstration stuff!

0:00 Time for another tutorial

Alright guys, time for another tutorial. Now first of all, I have to apologise quite profoundly because at the moment my nose is running like an absolute tap. It has been running all day, I haven't got a cold, it's just that time of year when my nose says, you know what, I'm going to cause as many problems as I can for you. Yeah, two antihistamines later and yes, my nose thought, okay, okay, fine, that's enough, I'm going to run even more. Right, yeah, alright, in this tutorial what we're going to do is mix one genre into another. Now I have been asked to do this six, well six million times actually, once, no quite a few times. What we're going to do in this tutorial is go from a very minimalistic sort of vibe into more of an uplifting vibe. Now a lot of people always say you know oh you know I want to try and

Change my mix. I want to sort of take it to the next level. Now if you like, say for example, just play techno, techno, techno. Techno, techno, techno! Brilliant. But you know what? Quite often it's a good idea to twist it a little bit. Let's say, well I'm not really digressing here but I'll explain. Let's say if I'm doing a mobile gig and I'm sick and tired of playing cheesy stuff. What I'll do, I'll play three they know and then one they don't. So, part exampler. For example, I'll play three tracks everyone knows, sings along to and jumps about to, and then all of a sudden, I'll bung in something they've never heard of before. And then I'll go back to stuff they know. And before you know it, they don't even know you played something they don't know. Ah, here it is. Cheers. Excuse me. Needed that. Right, so, what's this all about? Well, let's say for example,

You know you're playing your techno tracks or you're playing your house tracks or etc etc and you just want to change it very slightly a lot of things you can do here you can play techno mix one track in slightly different go back into techno or for example let's say you are playing a very eclectic mix in other words there's all kinds of everything um again it's down to the individual and how you make the mix sound now no two mixes will ever be the same I've said this before, but let's imagine you've got 100 DJs and you give 100 DJs 10 songs and you ask those 100 DJs to mix in track 2 with track 1, track 3 and track 2, track 4 into track 3 and so on. Well guess what? I bet you virtually every single mix will be slightly different, even though they've got the same tracks, etc. That's because every single DJ is different. So when you hear someone say, oh that was a crap mix...

3:05 Maybe it wasn't brilliant, but you know what?

Maybe it wasn't brilliant, but you know what? It was your mix. That's what counts. Now, what we've got here, two tracks, completely different genres, but guess what? It works and it takes your mix. It will bounce it. It will just change it slightly. If you keep the continuity of the music and a nice flow where the beat's concerned, well, you know what? The crowd possibly, not definitely, possibly won't even know. Well, no, actually they probably will know it's happened if they just used to say techno. And cunning, what will happen is you will lift your mix very slightly. In other words, I could bung this one in for a while and then go back in sort of a minimalistic track. Or maybe I could have that on there, bring in the beginning of this one, you'll hear, leave the beginning of this one while that one's playing, and then take this one out and bung another one in. Thank you. Right, crazy day today. Right, have a listen. You'll see what I mean.

4:39 Wang wang, track number, open mind

As minimalistic as you can get. There's not a lot going on here, is there really? If you want to know the names of the tunes, I'll bung them in the description, alright? Also as well, DJ Tutor's got some merchandise now. We've got t-shirts for the ladies, lickable clink and practice and enjoy and stuff like that. So what I'll do, I will actually put a lickable clickable link in the description that will take you to the website where you can get more information on the merchandise that... You can have and stuff. Right, so that's track number 75, and this one's track number 422 and a half. Just kidding. This one's 423. Right, so, have a listen. Wrong one. Now straight away, completely different sorts of genres, but you know what?

I could do loads of things. There's a beauty about it. People say, oh, you know, I've got two tracks and I always mix them in the same places. Well, open your mind. Mess around with them. Try the B-side. Try the A on the B-side, B on the A-side. Try the C-side! It's really nice there and I'll tell you what, you get your feet wet. Don't go to the C-side when it's cold though because you know what? The water's very... Go in the summer. Lovely and warm. Mind the crabs. Right, here we go. Oh God. Calm down, okay. Right, we'll do the first mix in this one. All I'm going to do is I'm going to bring this one in, but in the background a little bit. Keep this one, bring this one in just like... Nothing else, alright? So I'll wang it on a little bit. Wang, wang, wang, wang, wang, wang, wang, wang, wang, wang. Right, here we go. You know, to a particular point I thought it's wonderful because you can just open your mind.

7:54 I was teaching you get up, stand up, strut

And do stuff while you're thinking about it. I was teaching you get up, stand up, strut. So, get, stand, strut. Simple. Right, let's try something different again. By the way, I believe I brought this one in at the wrong time. It was in time with counting, but maybe not with the structure of the phrases. It was in time on the count of one... But of course, I mean, I just put the needle anywhere there and I bunged it in. But again, I'm practicing. I'm having a mess around, which is precisely what you... Stop picking your nose. Which is precisely what you should be doing. Pick it... No, kidding. Right, okay, so let's put it on over there. Right. Again, I've got effects on this. Of course, if you had a CD player, you'd get a cue point there or pause it, press play, pause, and then cue again, you know, like that, and then

10:26 Let's just do a normal mix

You can have a mess around there. Of course, if you've got one of the CDJ players, three cue points, you know, get up, stand up, strut. In other words, one, stand, two, strut, stand, strut, strut. See what I need to do is sing outside the box because too many people go, oh, one, two, three, four. I've got to mix this one in now because I'm coming close to the break. Oh God, and if I don't mix it in close to the break, I'm going to be different and I'm going to be very different to normal DJs and no one are going to like me anymore. Do you know what? Right, so. Put this one over here. Let's just do a normal mix. Seriously, I'm going to shoot my nose. One of many, but believe me, we could have done six million things there. It's all about experimentation, someone not being like every single other DJ, and about practicing and enjoying. Yeah, practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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