DJ VJ Tutorial on How to Mix Beat Mix a Radio Cut BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 This world the way it is at the moment, everyone's controlled

Alright guys, first of all I've got my little boy in the other room so we may hear him sort of come in and out while I'm doing this tutorial. We're going to do a tutorial on mixing with video, 7-inch versions to extend the mix, to help you extend the mix. But before we go into that, I want to tell you about control. Now, this world the way it is at the moment, everyone's controlled. Believe it or not, it's getting worse and worse and worse. The analogy I give you, it's a bit like the ice caps. North-south pole, you look at them and you think they're fine, they're not melting. But if you can actually watch them over 20 or 30 years, you'll see that they are probably reducing in size quite considerably.

So the same analogy applies to control. What the powers that be are doing is snipping away at little parts of you. You don't notice it because it's a little bit here and a little bit there. But over time, they take a lot away and they want to control you. So this video as well is about explaining how you can get... known, seen and heard more. Get out there, get people to recognise you. How do you do it without stepping over that big boundary and getting put inside in the nickel-like shot or something like that? Well, what you have to do, you have to just push very slightly. Try if you can just to be that little bit more mad... not mad and eccentric as in just there, but be different, be unique. Don't follow other people.

Don't copy other people. Take tips and tricks. For example, a chef in a restaurant, he or she could copy the same menu, the same recipe as another chef, but the good chef will take that recipe and add a little bit of extra spice to it or take away something or just chuck loads of other stuff or just take that recipe, rip it up, throw it in, use it as bog paper, chuck it in the toilet and think I'm gonna make my own whatever. That's what you've got to do. You have to be unique. You have to be different. Shout out Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bogger, blogger, bogger, pin it, ponit and whatever. Just be different, be eccentric, be wacky, but at the same time be kind and considerate to the people around you. Well, that's really very important.

Okay, in this video I'm going to try not to play too much of the tracks. I'm gonna play Taylor Swift and Jaquan Tipsy. I don't really want to play too much of them. Just in case this video gets flagged and they do me for playing copyrighted material. Yeah, right. If someone you know, I mean, oh look, there's a video there where some guys played a bit of Jaquan. Why don't we use the audio and play it at a gig?

2:47 Oh look, he's playing Taylor Swift

Oh look, he's playing Taylor Swift. That's really naughty. Well, hello Jaquan or Taylor Swift. Guess what? People actually watching this video may buy your tracks after watching this. Also, if you're not doing anything tonight, it's Saturday. If you do watch this video after Saturday too late tough but myself and Organixx1966 Dave will be doing a live stream on Ustream TV. The link will be in the description down there around about 8 p.m. GMT. So log in and we might give some stuff away. Might. Okay, so I have the Pioneer Wego. I have Jaquan Tipsy. Have a listen.

4:12 No vocals then loop that part of the track

Also, I've got over here at Taylor Swift. Oh, all right. So let's imagine now that we're coming towards the end of Jaquan and we want to give some sort of good introduction to Taylor Swift. So how do you do it? Because the trouble is with a lot of seven inch singles there's your limited to the beginning, the intro in the outro. So what do you do well if you can, if there are parts in the intro, intro and outro where you have even one or two bars of just a beat. Hello, Mr. No vocals then loop that part of the track. Now also what I've done, I've got the Pioneer Wego 3 here. I have virtual DJ and I actually love virtual DJ. It's a very simple program that does what it's supposed to do without frills and pops and whizzes.

I like it. Okay, I do use Traktor and Serato as well, but I prefer to use virtual DJ. End of video. End of story. Okay, so here we go. So we have Taylor Swift. All I've done is I formed a loop. The other thing I've done that I don't normally do, I have set it to sync mode. Why? Well because I don't have to worry too much about trying to keep it in time, especially with small controllers like this as well. You find that the pitch is very small, so you have to be really, really precise. You don't have to be put it in sync, whatever. Also go and check out extendermit.com. I'll put a link in the description as well because here's the deal. All right, let's say you go and buy an audio track. You play that audio track. Everyone loves it.

Great. But then that's all you've got. You've just got an audio track. Why don't you look into getting video? Because you can turn up to a normal wedding. You can play the audio. That's fine. Just play the audio through your program, but you do have the option in future to play the video as well. So you could start getting video files and carry on doing your audio sort of gigs. But then six months down the line, you've saved enough to get yourself a decent projector or a screen or something like that. And then whammo! You have got a collection of videos already that you started collecting six months ago. Think about it. It's a no brainer. Right. So here we go. Let's go towards the end of Jcorn.

6:11 Exactly what happened

Okay, so we're coming to the end of it. Reduce the bass. I'm in loop, so I'm just going to press loop and now we're out of loop. There you go. That's it. It is as simple as that. All right. It is about practice. Okay? The more practice, the better you'll get. So I'll explain exactly what happened. Now imagine Jcorn was playing. So there you go. You've got Jcorn playing and now you're able to go onto the other channel. And do whatever you want to do on headphones. You start the track off, you find a point in that track where you've got one or two bars of some form of a beat. Maybe a bit of melody in there. It doesn't matter if it's got melody, you've got to make sure it's perfectly in key. It's either the same key or a key that matches.

Otherwise it's going to sound pretty bad. So you find one or two bars, you loop those bars using your controller and then pause it. When you come back, when you come towards the end of the track that's playing, you then bring the loop in. And then, of course, when the track finishes, you exit the loop on the track that is coming in and away you go. All right. So why are we doing this? Well, if you think about it, the end of a lot of tracks finish off that there's not much of the track that's just got, say, a beat. Quite often it finishes with a melody and whatnot, which Jcorn did. But of course, the Taylor Swift track had just a beat. And I managed to find a tiny part where there wasn't much going on except that beat.

So I looped that in, finished with the Jcorn, brought in the Taylor Swift and that's it. So simple. It is so simple, yet it does work. So for anyone out there who says, I can't mix seven inch singles because there's nowhere to mix them in. Well, excuse me, look at the technology we have today. One of these, one of those, you can do it. Now, years ago, Pioneer brought out an SVM 1000 that was £6000 million. They also brought out DVJ players, which were £525 million, 47 and a half pence each. You then had to buy the DVDs, which are three and a half trillion pounds. Nowadays you can do video mixing with a couple of hundred quid. I'm going to leave it at that. Check out the link in the description. Practice. And enjoy. Thank you.

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