Double Drop Dub Step Tutorial BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 To the complete novice beginner, it could be like rocket science

All right guys we're going to do a video on mixing dubstep but we're gonna do a video on mixing dubstep and having a double drop so what that is it's if you imagine you've got one track and it's just coming to that place where there's gonna be the biggest orgasm known to man but you don't get the orgasm from that you get it from over there analogy I'll give you is like you're just about You don't and they do. Well, they do and you don't. But anyway, right, it's all about phrasing. That's it. To the complete novice beginner, it could be like rocket science. You'd be thinking, I just don't get it. I don't understand it. How do you do it? But once you realise that 99.999% of modern day dance music

Is formatted into phrases, then you'll suss it out and you'll work it out. What I'm going to do is I'm going to put a link in the description down there, a lickable clink, on a video I did a while ago with Lego and phrasing and how to construct a track out of Lego. Now I don't want you to think that it's very intricate and I don't want you to think that you won't be able to understand it. I want you to look at it in its really simple form, like a child would, Lego bricks. Four little upy-downy bits and different colours, and then take that into tracks. Bass, excuse me a second, I'm not going to edit this. What are you doing mister? You alright? Yeah, got my little lad at home, he's a little bit pooly but he's alright, he's watching Big Hero 6 or something like that. So...

2:12 I'll put the names of the tracks in the description

What I have done, right, I'll turn the camera now at the ducks and put that there so we can see that. Okay, so I'll put the names of the tracks in the description. Now, I've set a hot cue point here. There. I love doing that. All right, let's just go from the beginning of the track. Now, there is a reason for setting that hot cue there because that's almost the introduction to the next phrase So from here, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4 and drop. There's our drop. OK, so we have four bars and then we have our drop. We have four bars from that hot cue. Let's have a listen to the other track. Discrat glitch. I will put the names in the description. By the way, both of these tracks I got from zipdj.com. So let's press play from the beginning of this one. Now this is where bringing in tracks in at the correct position into the next track is really important because we've got a bit of an introduction here but let's have a listen to how long the introduction is.

4:50 I love analogies, a bit like trying to ride a bike isn't it?

Now again, counting drum and bass, sorry, drum and bass, I beg your pardon, dubstep can be very difficult but it's about practice. If you can't do it to begin with then try again and try again and try again Or try a different track. So, for example, if the tracks you've got are maybe a little bit difficult to count, then find something that's a little bit more easy. Get used to that first. Get completely used to it so you can do it like blindfolded. Actually, you don't need to because you hear it. Never mind that. Pretty silly. So you can pretty much do it lying on your back while you're washing up while someone's massaging your feet. Actually, I don't mind washing up. Get used to the track that you really know or tracks that you know that are very simple to count the BPM and then slowly but surely your brain will sort of...

Juggle about itself and get used to stuff that you don't really know how to count or you didn't used to know how to count. I love analogies, a bit like trying to ride a bike isn't it? You get on it when you're really young, you fall off, get off it, fall on, get off it, fall on, fall off and so on until eventually you get on it and you don't really fall off again until you become a downhill mountain biker who goes about 40 mile an hour down a cliff. Not a good idea. Right, so I'm going to put the camera there. And I am now going to do not just a double drop, but we're going to do lots of double drops because we're going to let the two tracks play together. Maybe have them playing at the same time. But the thing is with a dubstep, lot going on. So more...

7:40 There's a heck of a big difference there

Chopping from one to the other instead of a slow transition or having the crossfaders up together and playing them both together. Again, we can add effects. There is so much we can do here. Believe me, I could do a thousand videos just on this one transition on two tracks. It can be done, trust me, but that would be very boring. So, go for my point A. And I can hear the beginning of this one. And so on. Again. The point I just need to clarify is about the chopping from one track to the other. Now you'll notice I went from one side to the other, but I sort of tried to do it in time with the bars. But right at the end, you saw me do a bit of a spin back. Now that was in time with the phrasing. Now there's a heck of a big difference there.

1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. Now if you break down practically any dance track, you will find that there is phrasing inside the dance track. So for example, there could be instrumental break, it could be 8 bars, there could be like with this dubstep track, there could be 4 bars and then a change, a bit of a female vocal. So what I'm trying to do there is I'm trying to imagine, I'm listening and I'm feeling the intense... Pressure of this track just building and building till eventually... Spin back. So that's why I did a spin back at that point and not halfway through a phrase. So when you're going to do a spin back, you don't have to but it's a better idea to do a spin back at the end and beginning of a phrase because remember every time there's an end of a phrase there is the beginning of the next one. The only time there is an end of a phrase...

Is when the track finishes like this video practice and enjoy thank you very much bugger off

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