How to mix Acapellas video 3, The off beat!

0:01 Always ask me what gear I'm using

Right folks, polymeries first. People always ask me what gear I'm using. So I've got an iKey monitor there. This guy here is a Cam DDX-4500 USB deck. The mixer is the Cam KCM400 Mark II mixer and the deck over there is the Cam DDX-5000. Also, thank you very much Secor for that. That's spot on. And also as well, a big shout out to DJ Louis Mix from LA. Nice one dude. Alright, video number three in a selection I'm doing on mixing acapellas. In this one, I'm going to use this guy here. It's a 12-inch old classic from 1992 by Tony Lee entitled Reach Up. It's a stonker. If you haven't heard a sample from this guy in another tune, then I'm afraid you haven't got any ears. That guy over there is Eddie Amador, a track entitled Rise. What I'm going to do now is play Eddie Amador and I'm going to bring...

Tony Lee in on the one. In other words, what I'm talking about is the count of one in a bar. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. So we'll play right and we'll bring this guy in. Start this one off at the beginning. Get this one ready. Two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Now you'd think if I brought it in at the count of one, this guy, when the beat comes in, it should be in time. But let's have a listen.

2:01 This is what you can do sometimes with acapellas

So why is it off when it was on? Well the reason being is when they made this particular track, they made it so the everybody reach should be slightly off beat. But it sounded okay. This is what you can do sometimes with acapellas. You can maybe just nick it a tiny bit off beat. So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to bring it in how it should be brought in so it will come in exactly in time. Right, let's give it another go. First of all, before I do that, let's play the track. Just listen to the acapella a little bit by itself. Also as well, if you think about it, if I count one, two, three, four. Everybody reach, reach to the top. Everybody reach up, don't stop, don't stop. Everybody reach, reach to the top. Don't stop. But you should actually bring it in like this. Two, three, four. Everybody reach, reach to the top. Everybody reach. Now there's a very, very tiny, tiny subtle difference.

But it makes hell of a difference when you bring this in. Also what you can do, which I'll do after I've played the track as it should be played, I'll show you how you can bring this in different times to get a different effect. And if you stick to this sort of policy you can do this with quite a lot of other acapellas. So I'll bring this in now as it should be brought in and then when the acapella finishes it will be in beat as it should be with the track over here. Here we go. He says...

3:42 Bearing in mind this is a tutorial but hopefully you get the idea

Okay, bearing in mind this is a tutorial but hopefully you get the idea. What I'm going to do now, put my headphones on and I'm going to bring this in in two different ways to get a different feel all together. Here we go. We'll start this one off. So basically what we're looking at there is from the count of one. One, two, three, four. Everybody reach, reach to the top. Everybody reach up, don't stop, don't stop. Everybody reach. The DJ Tutor shows you how to play acapellas in a simple way. You've got an acapella from one track and you're mixing it in with a completely different track over there. Practice and enjoy. I've got pauses now.

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