DJ Tutorial, Mixing two acapelas over a tune. ( Demonstration too)

0:02 The only reason he's woken up now is because I stopped the music

Alright guys, I hope you can see me. I've got a bit of a demonstration straight tutorial here, and I've got Blaze in the mix as well, who is slowly going to sleep. The only reason he's woken up now is because I stopped the music. Right, this particular demonstration straight tutorial is about bunging in two acapellas in the mix. And bearing in mind now, these players, you can use the rekordbox software and you can quantise a loop. And if you have got these, I highly recommend using the software because it makes the players come alive. Now, this kind of mix or almost like an effect can very much enhance your set because the normal way of let's say bringing an acapella in is bring one acapella over a track and leave it at that.

But to actually bring two in... Incorporate the two and chop and change and mess around can take your mix to the next level. Many factors to take into consideration here, please read into this particular tutorial and try and understand it. And also maybe look at what I'm teaching and maybe think well you should have said this or that, or I can do better here, I can do better there, and perhaps if I'd have turned it up there it would have sounded better. Or maybe you could... Take what I'm giving you and you need to take it to the next level. The one, excuse me, one important factor I will say, and this is very important. When you mix one track into the other of course they have to sound well. The keys have to be either the same or keys that match.

When then you... When you are then bringing in an acapella... The acapella itself has to be in... Key with the track. But when you are bringing two acapellas in then really we're at a different level because let's say for example you play two tracks and they're the same key, that's fine. Or one is a different key but the keys work, that's fine. When you bring a third track or a third music source into the equation you've then got to be very careful about mixing keys. I don't know maybe there are a lot of people out there who know better than me... But can you mix a third key into a first second? In other words one key, A, B. Can you mix a C key, not as in C... Key of C but can you mix a third one? Let me know.

Excuse me. So what I'm going to do we have a track plane here which is Florence and the Machine. And then we're going to mix in that one there and if I say what it is now then you'll know. It is... Hold on. It's track nine. It's Hans Boffum... The Confusion, H-A-N-S and then B-O-U-F-F-M-Y-H-R-E. Sorry. The Confression. And it's actually spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-S-I-O-N. It's Mark Broome remix version one. So that's this track here. And then Florence and the Machine.

3:32 We will play the latter part of this track

So, again the idea of this particular mix is I will be doing the whole thing. We will play the latter part of this track. We will mix in that track. We will then form a loop of an acapella with this player over that track. Incorporate another acapella on this player. And then we will bring these two acapellas out. And then I'll bring in another track on this one. And again, I'll be doing this sort of in a short compressed amount of time. But what you can do again if you think about it... With the acapellas for example. You've got an acapella and I know this is a lot of talking but then this is me trying to explain what you can do. There is so much to even this one tutorial. You could spend a week just going over this and expanding and expanding on it.

5:15 Revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution

Remember what I said, don't go that way, go that way, 360. Open your mind 360 degrees. So for example, I could for example which I've done here, I've done a loop. I could if I wanted to, I could form a loop and two cue points. I could form three loops from that acapella. I could form three loops from this acapella. Alternatively if I wanted to and I could mix them correctly... I could maybe have three different acapellas. One, two, three from different songs, different acapellas and there. So again it's just chopping the acapellas over the tracks. So without further ado, said the actress to the bishop... I'm just going to wang this forward a bit. And let's give it a go. So we've got this one playing. Revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution.

Notice I'm not using loads of vocals. Revolution, revolution, revolution.

7:43 Let's find another track

Okay let's find another track.

Try, oh my god. Revolution.

Revolution.

So I'm going to add some echo.

Two over one.

Okay I think we've just about pulled that off. I think so anyway. Right again, so slightly intricate, three decks sort of on the go. If I had spent more time doing that then...

So I'll just check and see if it's still there. Ah, I can see it. Then it would have hopefully got a lot better. Alright I hope that's been a help. I hope you guys enjoy. Thank you.

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