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DJ Tutorial / New Releases Street CD Pool July 2009

Lesson Intermediate Stage 4: Mixing & Transitions November 2009

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0:00 Some more new releases from CDPool

Alright folks, some more new releases from CDPool. In this video I'm going to be playing street releases July 2009. A whole bunch of people have been whinging about the fact that I do more sort of demos and more new releases as opposed to tutorials. So guess what? I'm going to do a new release video and incorporate a tutorial at the same time. We're going to mess around with the crossfade here and do a bit of cutting, alright? CD Ball Street 2009, track 1 from disc number 1 that side, track 1 disc number 2 on that side over there. Whang this one forward a little bit. Right now first of all let's have a listen to this track, here we go. Right now listen to the beginning. There's a bit of like that so I'm going to set cue point there.

2:30 Quite often it's a good idea just to cut

So use the crossfade straight over, hit the cue. In the count of bars, talking about timing there. 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. But also, this guy here starts before the count of one. Give me a, like that, listen. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. So I need to bring this one in before the counter was. One, two, three, four. One, two, three. Straight in. Track number one from disc number two. Happy Christmas, happy New Year, happy Easter, happy morning. Cup of coffee here, nice one. Okay, BFL over this side, I can hear this side now on the headphones. I'm going to now choose a track sort of appropriate with bringing in with this one here. And again... With the likes of hip-hop and R&B, sometimes it's rather difficult to beatmatch simply because there's such a lot going on in a short amount of time. So quite often it's a good idea just to cut. Use crossfade. Make sure two volume controls are up like that. At this time, spin back, bring this one in. Notice when I did the spin back, I had the crossfade halfway. The reason being is I wanted to be able to hear the spin back and at the same time press play on here.

So you've got the track coming in and the spin back and then cross over straight away. There's no point having it that side, spin back, and then you've quickly got to flick it over. Ideally you want to hear the two at the same time. This one here is taken from disc number 1 and it's track number 5. I'm going to mix this one in. Beat this one up. So I've set the points where it's mixed in or theoretically where it should be beatmatched. This one...

5:11 This is track three from disc number two

And then took away the top on that one. Now we've got this guy here. It's very slow, a lot slower than it should be, so I'm going to start to speed it up very slowly. I've got master tempo on, so theoretically you shouldn't be able to hear the change in key. You may though be able to hear the change in speed as I increase the speed. This is track three from disc number two. Bring mid, top back up on this one. Let's find another track over here. PFL, here we go, on the headphones. Track here that I can sort of just chuck in. Have a listen.

Just that cut. Straight in. Taken from disc number one. Don't forget, this is the street release of July 2008. So this, right, if we listen to this guy, do it like a basketball. So, think, listen. Right? Press, do it like a basketball, but I can bring the crossfade over so we just get the basketball. Track number four, taken from disc number two. Alright, enough of these guys here. Don't forget. Follow the link in the description. That will take you to the CDBall website. I hope you like the general idea. I'm going to try and do this more when we do new releases. Practice and enjoy.

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