How to DJ Mix in Key but Not in Beat with Drum and bass BY Ellaskins DJ Tutor

0:01 Hopefully I won't get any copyright issues

All right, ladies and gentlemen, there's my little boy Blaze. Say hello. Hello. Hello. Right. All right. Turn that off for a bit. Okay. So watch. Oh, you're going. Okay. All right. He's going. All right. Yeah. Okay. So what I'm going to do now is show you this. This is really for beginners. Also, this is a great way of forming a transition if you don't know how to beatmatch. One of the some people say one of the most difficult genres to beatmatch, which is drum and bass or any type of drum and bass. So hopefully I won't get any copyright issues. I'm using a track Nevermind Original Mix Platform Mina Fedora and Solar Wind Quantrant Iris Kid Hops. So you can see all the info there. So what I've done with the beginning of the track, I've set a hot cue at the beginning of the track. Now we can hear there's music, there's melody, but there's no beat.

1:13 We have got a bit of a beat in the background

Now this is the key here and the key being the operative word, no beat. Let's listen to the other track. Now we have got a bit of a beat in the background. We've you know, with both tracks, we've definitely got timing, you know, because we can hear that the slight kind of hi-hat sound in the background. Listen, there it is. It's really very faint, but it's in the background. So again, what I'm going to do, I'm going to sort of break this video down without having to use much of the actual content, the music content. So let's play this. Let's sort of skip it forward. All right. So let's just imagine now that the track is sort of halfway through, quarter of the way through. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to on the one in a bar.

I'm going to hit my A, which is the beginning of the track where just the melody is. And then all I'm going to do, I'm going to blend in the melody of that one. That's it. It's as simple as that. But the key here is making sure the keys are the same. So I'll talk through it as well. So hopefully we won't get any copyright issues so we can hear that there.

2:37 Listen to the melody with this one

There. That was pretty much it. Now, again, the reason. I try and keep videos like this really short with minimal music is because, you know, YouTube's like giving copyright strikes and whatnot. But let's just go back to the melody. Have a listen here. OK, we can hear that. Listen to the melody with this one.

So the transition, the mix is the melody mix. So when you're basically when you're mixing two melodies together with no beat, with no defined time signature, then you can get away with mixing them without having them in time. Now, I hope that makes sense. Leave a comment if it does. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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