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DnB Drop Uplift in Music and Tempo Demonstration

Lesson Intermediate Stage 5: Musical Craft November 2023

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0:01 A couple of D&B tunes here

Right guys, a couple of D&B tunes here. Now, firstly, they are different BPM. Secondly, what I'm going to do is just a chop. We're not doing any long kind of transition. One reason is because they are different BPM. And also, I'm highlighting the fact that we're changing the music. We're going from sort of a really deep feel into something hard energy and hitting. Now, this isn't something sort of for the beginners to do. It's slightly more advanced because my cue points, the first cue point on the right hand side is not on the one. Have a listen. You see, if I count on the one here, one, two, three, it's off. The actual counting is one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. This is where you've really got to know the track.

1:41 Give you an idea of the tracks

It's almost like you've got to understand the wording and how the wording is placed inside the bars and phrases. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to play the left hand side, wait to the break, let the break play, maybe chuck in a little bit of the acapella and then bung the drop in. Now, if you look at the screen, you'll notice that there's quite a distance between the first hot cue and the second one. That's because I just want to do something like this. There. So what I'm missing is the break itself. So in a way, what will happen is the drop should take place on the left hand side, but instead the drop is going to be on the right hand side. Here we go. So let's just zip forward. So give you an idea of the tracks. Hopefully YouTube won't clobber me with playing this music. If I was honest with you, I was really, really slightly out.

Hence why this is not. Something you want to do for the lighthearted people out there. You know, it is slightly more advanced, but if you can get this nailed and on the one, it does sound good because like I said, you're lifting the energy in many ways. One of course the music. Secondly, you're just increasing that BPM dramatically. If done correctly, the crowd don't even know it's faster, but you can see by the energy from the dance floor, people go nuts. Hope that's a help practice and enjoy. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

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