How to Chop Mix the Next Track CD Pool Dance July 2019

0:00 Welcome once again to one of my random videos

Alright guys, welcome once again to one of my random videos. I do actually have a helper today which is a pussycat. Her name is Willow and she is a ginger pussy. Aren't you? Give it a good stroke on the tickle. They like it. Okay, got some dance releases from CDPool and I've said this in a couple of other CDPool videos. If you are, let's say, thinking about getting into compilations and you're trying to get that thought out of your mind, then there is a link in the description below. In the description to CDPool.com, also, there's a small code. Now, if you subscribe to their new releases, you will get a 50% reduction for your first month subscription, okay? And bearing in mind that you do have to be a working DJ and you've got to be a working DJ in the UK or in Europe as well. So it's not just United Kingdom, it's Ireland, Scotland, Channel Ireland.

France, Germany and so on. Alright? Now, these are the dance releases for July 2019. A little bit more commercial, more sort of poppy, handbaggy, euphoric, uplifting, loads of vocals, loads of melodies, sort of big room, you know, big break. When I say big breaks, not long breaks, but that sort of break leading up to a boom. Now in this video what I'm going to be doing is looking at transitions which are just chopped from one to the other. So, I've got one set up already. The tune you're listening to at the moment is Take You Home, the extended... That's gone now. It's Take You Home, just thinking about laughing. Sorry. You know me, I don't edit videos. Shit happens. Most of the time, anyway. Take You Home, the extended mix and I've got a track here entitled Rising Up. I'm just going to pause that.

So let me do a hot cue there because that's the point where I'm going to bring it in but let's just have a listen to the beginning of the next track. Which is a track entitled Rising Up, the Rockefeller extended... I think it's the Rockefeller. Yeah. Extended remix. Have a listen. So this is how it starts. Now that's where I've cued up.

2:43 Let's go back to our Take You Home tune

Old school sample.

So let's go back to our Take You Home tune.

So skip it back there. Okay, now that was a quick transition. It was in key but also I had to make sure that I didn't overlap the melodies otherwise... Because the tracks were sort of... There's a lot going on in them. There's a lot of melody, a lot of sounds going in one and same with the other. What I feel with those two tracks is if I try to form some kind of transition that was based on a long mix of the two together it may have been a little bit too messy. Too much going on. And this is something else to remember. When you've got tracks that are big, bassline, melody, vocals and goodness knows what. And you've got another track, melody, bassline, vocals you add those two or the two tracks together with all those elements

And there's gonna be too much happening. There's just gonna be... It's gonna be too full. So of course something like that where you chop from one to the other hopefully will work for a transition like this. Let's find another tune and do something similar. We're gonna do a random kind of selection here. That's the same one. I thought that sounded familiar. Not that one. Right, how does this start? No. Very typical Don Diablo sort of style here. What I'm gonna do now is just straight chop, chop

And straight in with the next one. This one here is Brave Don Diablo VIP extended mix. So there we've got a nice kind of boom straight in with something else. What the hell's going on here? Very good girl you are. Yes you are. But she's gotta be happy otherwise she'll be like I'm going, I'm leaving. Okay this one here is track number six but bearing in mind that the tracks I'm playing you are in alphabetical order. I'm not using any software I've just got the regular mp3s that I downloaded from the website and I've just put them onto a thumb drive so when you download them on mp3 they come in a zipped folder unzip and stick them on your thumb drive or of course you can put them through whatever program you're using

Traktor, Serato, Rekordbox, Virtual DJ Shopping Basket

6:21 Time, find something

Right let's do the same thing again find something else. I'm just skipping through them at the moment so this is something that would work listen in time, in phrase but this doesn't sound right that didn't sound right to me it just sounded a little bit I mean it was sort of in time, in phrase but then to me that didn't work right so I'm going to go back to Brave let's find something else no. Talk to you something as well about how you can make sure you've always got time just waiting for the as soon as that bass line finishes alright that was really a quick kind of chop now earlier on in that last track of time let me pause that for a second that's possibly one of the worst things that can happen when you're doing some kind of mix

Because if you think about it if you're running out of time you're no longer concentrating on the next track that's coming in you're more likely to be more worried about the fact that you haven't got much time left in the track that's playing therefore you're worrying so much about that, it makes it even worse because you're worrying about that it does make sense so how do we overcome that how do we make sure that we've got all the time in the world cue points it's so simple just have cue points let's say for example now we are playing this track

So this is our first track and we know what we're going to bring in is the second track so let's find something else this one here by the way is Walk Away and the one before that was Brave Don Diablo VIP Extended so let's find something else

Ok so that one's playing so what I'm going to do now I'm going to set a cue point at the beginning

What I'm doing is finding the change, a new phrase

Perhaps wait till the vocals finish

See it's difficult with a lot of tracks like this where you've got a lot of vocals chorus verse chorus verse because you don't have many points so I'm going to set a cue point with not much going on oh right there there

Ok so

Actually I don't think these two are going to work properly together anyway so what I'm going to do I'm going to put this one on now so let's start from my second hot cue which is about work the dance floor ok so in other words what we've done we've been playing that one while the crowd are listening to that on your headphones you've found your next track that you're going to bring in and you've just set a couple of hot cues on it the importance of the hot cues is so you can jump back but also make sure your hot cues are at positions that are not so much in time but in phrase with the track you don't want random oh I'll just put it there you've got to make sure that it's at the end of a phrase like for example the beginning of the chorus, the beginning of the verse

The end of the chorus, the end of the verse the beginning of the instrumental break the end of the instrumental break make sure that it's in phrase very important so just go there let's find something else on this side let's have a look

Yeah so

Ok so I don't know if you can see this but if I skip this forward now you know I'm 25 seconds left that's all I've got left and instead of me panicking what am I going to do all I need to do is hit that hot cue 2, 3, 4 there I'm back in the middle of the track and I'm also in phrase when I hit that hot cue it's in phrase with the track that's actually leaving the mix not the mix sorry the track is playing towards the end of that you've got to make sure that when you press that hot cue it's in phrase with the end of that track I hope that makes sense

Let's wait for the end of the bridge one happy cat can't you you are

This one here is I was loving you extended mix ok so we'll finish there track number 12 that's in alphabetical order and like I said if you're interested in CDpool then check out in the description there is a link to cdpool.com and also there's that code so if you're a first time user use that code and you will get 50% off your first month practice and enjoy thank you

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