DJ Tutorial on Mixing Acapelas video 3, Using 3 turn tables

0:00 Video and then you'll know exactly

Alright folks, another video on mixing acapellas and also fantastic idea for you. If you've got like a big spot, hairy spot on the back of your neck and you love to squid you but you can't really see what you're doing, what you could actually do is video the spot so you can see it. Have a look at the video and then you'll know exactly what it looks like and where to... Anyway, never mind. In video number three what we're going to do is concentrate on three decks. Now when we mix with acapellas of course basically as I said in the other videos you haven't got much of a beat. Bassline, quite often with an acapella it's just the vocals. That's it, nothing else. Now with this particular acapella there's a sort of a hand clap in the background. Now that is sometimes very good, sometimes it's very bad. Sometimes it's very good because it helps you keep the timing. Sometimes it's very bad because if the acapella starts to go off very slightly and you've got some sort of beat

Intertwined with the acapella, then it's more easily recognisable that it's going off. So in this tutorial it's more like a demonstration. So what are we doing? Well basically what you have to do is you've got to have three decks because you've got to have the one track that's playing, you have to have the other one you're bringing in and you've got to have another one with the acapella. Now also what happens here is almost in a sense the acapella will gel the mix together. So as I've always said, one track, two tracks, the mix is like a third track in itself. So in essence you've got one track, you've got the mix which is the second track, the second track which is the third track in a sense, but almost now we've got a fourth dimension over the top of the mix itself. So in other words what we could do

2:11 I haven't got any headphones

A whole bunch of things. This is where the mind boggles. You could have, say, this track playing here by itself. You could start to bring the acapella in here. So already you've got a mix and then as the acapella's playing like so, and I'm going to do this in Lego one day. Yes. Acapella's playing and then at this point here you could start to bring the mix in so the acapella's still there and then maybe at this point here, here, you could start to take track one out. Right. Let's have a look. Right, here we go. Now I haven't got any headphones. Now basically I've got the Track 1 here, I've got the acapella on this turntable here and I've got Track 2 over there. Now there's one very important factor here that hopefully you'll understand. There's no need to have it booming loud. Main reason when you're doing something like this is because what a lot of DJs tend to do, they'll have...

This track, this level, that one, that level, another thing, a bit higher, up, up, up. Before you know it, everything's all the way up there, sky high. It's actually better to have it quite low. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to set everything just that tiny bit lower. Now also what I've done with this guy here, I've set some hot cues as well. So, two things. One, I can let this play, run all the way through. Number two, if maybe I think it's going slightly off, Even without having to move the jog wheel, if I hit one of the hot cues on beat, theoretically it should get back into beat. Thirdly what I can do is after I've had the acapella play, gone from this track, acapella in the middle over to that track, I can then just use the hot cues and have a bit of a mess around.

4:01 This guy here is going to be track number one

Something like this. This particular tutorial is just one, say, tutorial. But imagine just concentrating on this and splitting it up into different facets. You could do a million things just by messing around like this. It's all about having some fun. F-U-T-N-Y-D-R-M-Y. Anyway, right, OK, by the way, I haven't got any headphones on so if the beat does go slightly off... Sorry, the reason for no headphones is because I want to try and talk you through what I'm doing. Right, by the way, as ever, look to the side of the video for the names of the tracks. This guy here is going to be track number one. That over there is track number two. And please, if you know what the acapella is, tell me because I'm the foggiest. Right, here we go.

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