DJ Tutorial on Breaks, NU Funk. Mixing, timing and chat

0:01 Genre known as Breaks or New

Alright guys, in this video we're going to look at a genre known as Breaks or New Funk. I don't believe I've done any tutorials on this before. First of all, let's talk about it. Let's try and get you to realise what Breaks or New Funk is all about. If you want to know any more about New Funk or Breaks, go and check out DJ Delimentary because he is shite hot at mixing that kind of stuff. I'm not allowed to say shit hot because it's really rude, so I'll sort of just try and say it in a really cryptic way. So he's shite hot. Right, first of all, hip hop. If we listen to the beat or let's imagine how the beat in hip hop, how we would describe it. We would describe it like this, as in bum, cha, dum, dum, ch, dum, dum, ch, dum, dum, ch, dum, dum, ch, dum.

Very slow and there's a lot of emphasis on the high. And the low, bum, ch, bum, like so. If we look at drum and bass for example, drum and bass is a lot faster but then again half time it's almost the equivalent timing of hip hop. So for example, hip hop you could have a track that's 80 bpm, 80 beats in one minute. Drum and bass it could be 160, so you can actually mix hip hop with drum and bass if you do it correctly. Bear that in mind. So drum and bass.

Well, breaks is almost like if the person who designed the drum and bass track. Let's say all of a sudden they take away all the instruments and they just have the beat. All of those beats all close together inside the dum, cha, dum, ch, you know, dum, ch, cha, dum, ch, dum, ch, so all those bits inside the beat. Well, you've got lots going on. Now let's imagine that we halved the drum and bass sound. It's just dum, cha, da, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, dum, cha, da, that is the easiest way, I hope so, of describing breaks. Now the two tunes I'm going to be using is, uh, is it, uh, Cal Age?

Oh, sorry, I can't, I'm dyslexic, do apologise. Something 13, Rock the Party. And this one here, Coolio 1, 2, 3, 4, uh, something, that's what it's got there.

No. Got this particular track at a certain point where I'm pretty sure we can mix it in. Now, also, a good way of mixing breaks is to chop, bam, bam, bam, bam, and we can do this. If we listen to this Coolio track.

2:43 This is where the internal timing comes in

Now this is where the internal timing comes in. Because what I would like to do, I would like to mix it in, but at the same time try and chop it in. Now we've got perfect timing, 1, 2, 3, 4, listen. We're going to send you over first. Two things there, very important. First of all, a bar, lots of things actually, not just two. A bar is the count of four. 1, 2, 3, 4. So we can actually hear someone saying 1, 2, 3, 4. Secondly, get your woman on the floor. That's another bar. So, you know. We can have so much fun with that, you know. 1, 2, 3, 4. Get your woman on the floor. So, 1, 2, 3, 4. Get your woman on the floor. Right, if I press Q.

4:04 Hope that's been a help

See? 2, 4, on the floor. So you imagine doing something like that with a beat on top from another tune. And you can mash it up. Here we go. Just whack it forward a bit. My, my. So at any time. When I do this. When I bring the crossfade over. I know exactly where it's going to come in and what's going to be heard because I can hear it here.

Also new breaks or new, well not new break sorry, new funk. Very similar to hip hop half time of drum and bass, but it's got a little bit more to it that it hasn't really. There's more vibe in relation to let's say people who like to mix hip hop. Now try this. Why don't you? Mix some hip hop tunes in with new breaks and see what you come up with. Hope that's been a help. I will put the names of these two tracks in the description. Enjoy and practice or even practice and enjoy lickable clink. All right, take it well. Yeah, sorry. Hmm.

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