How to Look for and Fine Tracks with the Same Energy to Keep the Vibe Going on the Floor

0:00 We're going to call this tutorial Catching the Right Vibe

Alright ladies and gentlemen, we're going to call this tutorial Catching the Right Vibe. Okay, first and foremost, XDJAZ and I've got some nice deep garage tracks. To make life easy, I have just made sure that they're all in the same key. But what I'm going to do is, I'm going to play you a little snippet of this track first. Okay, this is entitled Back Again, The Drummer Tricks Remix.

Now, what I want you to do is, be honest with you, chosen a track, I'm going to mix with it anyway,

Is remember the vibe and the energy that track gave you. Remember the feeling, okay? I've talked about this in numerous videos, about when you want to form a playlist of a certain type of track, imagine a picture in your mind, and when the tracks you're going through remind you, reminisce you of a picture, of a time, of a place, then put them in that folder. So, you might find over time and experience, you'll start getting groups of tracks that do indeed work really well together, because you've formed a picture, an imaginary picture around those tracks. So, what I'm going to do, we are together going to skip through some tracks, and hopefully you'll agree with me and not disagree. So, again, we'll just play this track here.

Okay, very nice, very down tempo, slightly jazzy, bit of soul in there, but a good sort of solid four to the four garage track. So, let's have a listen to perhaps this one here.

Okay, so first of all, my first thoughts on this track. It's got that kind of nice garage feel, but it's a bit too uplifting. So, if I was to bring that track into... into this, which theoretically I suppose I could do, but I don't want to. I would be almost increasing the vibe and the energy in the mix, and that's not what I want to do. I want to keep the vibe and energy at a constant. So, let's try the next track. Here we go.

Okay, so now, to me, this is a bit more deep and techy. This is, you know, if I was to form levels, the track I am playing that I want to find a track to mix into is, say, street level. The second one I played is sort of the first or second floor. That one is more like underground. It's more like the subway. It's a little bit lower. So that is a no-no for me. Let's have a listen again to the next one.

3:16 Straight away we've got more of an uplift again

All right, straight away we've got more of an uplift again. This is more vibrant. It's kind of a little bit deep, but it has got that sort of emphasis of here I am, bang! Again, theoretically, we probably could mix them together, but I don't think it would be a smooth sort of solid transition for the vibe and energy that I'm looking for. I mean, to me, it's a happy vibe. It's like, yeah, I like you. Yeah, come around to my place. Whereas this one, it's a bit like, yeah, come around to my place, mate. We'll have a couple of beers and talk about, you know, doing someone over. Sorry. Right. Okay, let's try the next one. Now again, we've gone a little bit more...

Let's try another one. I want to find something that might work. This is what I chose. Yeah, I like this. I'm not beat matching them. Listen, now these two, in my mind, were absolutely meant for each other.

5:44 The position I'm about to do, I haven't practiced

All right, let's see what we'll do.

That's where we have our new phrase. The position I'm about to do, I haven't practiced. Earlier on... Yeah, choose that Danny J Lewis track. By the way, yes. Danny J Lewis, it's a track entitled Organic. If you haven't heard of Danny J Lewis and you love your sort of deep soulful, your house vine, but then go and check him out. The guy is a genius. Okay, so let's just press play here.

6:57 I should have brought it in earlier because we've got that sort of gap

I should have brought it in earlier because we've got that sort of gap.

In fact, yeah, I'm going to do that. Okay, so now worst things you can do, but I'm sure you've been in the situation or you've heard DJs...

You've heard the track. It sounds amazing. And all of a sudden, you have the outro of that track and the intro of the next. So you've got beats over beats and that's pretty much it. So you've got like vibe and energy of one track into a beat with the overlapping beat of the next track coming in and then the vibe and energy of the next track. But you see what I'm trying to encapsulate here. What I'm trying to get is vibe and energy of one finishing and the next one coming in. So from here...

See, I want to bring that track here.

I'm going to do it a quick way. So what I'm going to do... I'm going to do something very simple.

Let's go to...

9:22 Let's have a look and then bring it in at the right time there

So what? Yeah. All right. Let's have a look and then bring it in at the right time there. Hopefully if it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. But hopefully you'll get what I'm doing again. Like I said, I am not the best DJ in the world, but who gives a monkey's egg? Right. So, right. What was I doing? One bar loop. There you go. That's my one bar loop. Now again, if I wanted to spend time with this, of course, I'd have the beat coming in over this one as well. So it wouldn't just be one bar loop bang in. It would be the beat starting at the same phrase time signature as this track. So what I mean by that is where this track breaks down and gets into the beat. Imagine there was say eight or 16 bars prior to that and a change at

The first bar of the 16th or the 8th. And then imagine this track here, the beginning say had 16 or 8 bars. Then theoretically what I could do is start this one at the point where the 16th bar begins the first bar of the 16 bars start this one. First by the 16 bars of the beat here, we have 16 bars of the melody. And then as soon as that phrase finishes, of course, the beat on this side finishes and the melody comes in there again. Really? It's just it's very basic sort of a logic with all we're dealing with here is matching numbers together. Again, if you're a complete novice DJ and you just wondering where you are in a track once you realize that everything. Is structured in pretty much for 816 sometimes 2432, you'll get the

Hang of it. So I may have come out a bit too soon there.

All right. So hope you get the idea that now a relatively simple video a relatively big explanation, but that's what I like to do try and break it down to its very very basic. So even an idiot like me can understand it. Can I thank you for watching? Don't forget practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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