How to Mix Drum & Bass with Hip-Hop Video 1

0:00 Jonathan here, also known as the DJ Tutor

Alright folks, Jonathan here, also known as the DJ Tutor. Now loads of people have been asking for more tutorials on learning how to mix drum and bass. And people have been asking for tutorials on learning how to mix hip hop. Well what I'm going to do here is combine the two together. Now first of all, people always say, well how can you mix hip hop with drum and bass? Because drum and bass is very fast, hip hop is very slow. And agreed, one is very fast and the other one is slow. Drum and bass is the fast one, hip hop is the slow one. Now again, a few of you may laugh here but imagine this, this is the hip hop track. Imagine the drum and bass track. Now if we were to count the beats in the drum and bass and then in the hip hop, this is how it would sound if I was counting. One, two, three, four, very slow.

Drum and bass, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, like that, it's really fast. But quite often what you find is that hip hop is almost half beat of drum and bass. So in other words, let's say for example a drum and bass track hypothetically is 200 BPM, that's 200 beats in every single minute. And the hip hop track is 100. Well what you can do, you can actually mix the hip hop track in the half beat. Now I've got two tracks here. One mixes perfectly with the other. That guy there is hip-hop, that guy there is drum and bass. By the way, if you want to know the names of the tracks, then pop in the description and I'll put the names. Now first of all, this guy here, Vinyl Turntable. A quick one here, people are always asking me how to make the platter not so sticky. In other words, the platter's this guy here, there's the record and you've got the slip mat. Well this is what you can do. If I take the record off, there's the slip mat.

2:41 Start right back at the beginning of this track

Underneath the slip mat, I've just got a piece of paper. And what that will do, it will help the slip mat to slip a lot better. So don't... hold on. Falling off. Right, so put that back there. There you go. Slip mat, vinyl, and there you go. That's a lot faster. Let's have a listen to the hip-hop track first. And anyone out there who knows their hip-hop, this is a classic. Here we go. Now let's listen to the beat. This is what we're going to mix into it. Put this one a little bit forward. Alright, okay. What I'm going to do now is also if we... Start right back at the beginning of this track. A lot of people sometimes say, when there's an airy feel to a drum and bass track initially, no beat at all, how can you count the beats? How can you get it in time? Well let's have a listen to the start of this track. Sorry, I had the volume down, here we go. Now, there's not much going on, but we've got a tiny amount of percussion right in the background. Start it again as soon as I hit play.

I'm going to start with the count of one. Here we go. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Or I could count like this. One, two, three, four. But for the sake of bars, we'll stick to... One, two, three, four. Alright, what I'm going to do now, I'm going to mix the hip-hop track in with the beginning of that track. So what we'll have initially, you'll just have this track playing by itself. I'm going to cue this one up, get it beatmatched and then I'm going to slowly bring the hip-hop track in. So in essence what we'll have is drum and bass by itself, maybe a bit of drum and bass with hip-hop. Right, here we go.

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