Intermediate DJ Lesson Adding Breakbeat over a House Tune to Give It More Depth

0:00 This is an intermediate DJ lesson

Alright ladies and gentlemen, this is an intermediate DJ lesson. It's really sort of a bit of a tip or a trick. We've got a very basic house to boot here. How can we make this sound a little bit more interesting? Right, what I've done is I've got a breakbeat track here. The track on the right hand side is I'm In Need, it's Orsi's Ancient Technology dub and the breakbeat, well to be quite honest, you could use any kind of breakbeat. Now firstly, breakbeat, there's a lot more percussion inside the track so it's not just a kick, 1, 2, 3, 4, it's a lot more going on. If we have a listen.

Okay, you've got that and the 4-4 time. Right, what I'm going to do, I'm going to use the echo at some point or some points over the breakbeat but I'm going to use it at three quarter time so what that will do, it will enhance the flavour let's say. I'm going to add the effect on the breakbeat track over the house track so it'll give it even more depth. So let's have a listen to two together with no effect. Okay, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to use the echo effect over the house track now so off we go. Press play.

2:08 You could also use single notes to make it a little bit more intense

Now I didn't want to have the breakbeat overpower the house track so the volumes were, I suppose if we imagined the house track, it would be just a little bit more intense. You could also use single notes to make it a little bit more intense. beat was 100% the breakbeat would be about sort of 75 to 60%. Now a small tip here as well on most mixers we have what's known as the level depth when you disengage the effect you will still get or disengage the echo you'll still have remnants of the echo it's of course that's why it's called an echo so two things you can do one is you can leave the remnants of the echo play and slowly fade away that rhymes I'll just slowly fade away sorry alternatively what you can do is

3:28 Practice and enjoy thank you

Just switch the level depth off and the echo vanishes so I'm going to do the two now I'm going to leave the echo fade away first and then I'm going to just switch the level depth off straight away so let's do that again echo on okay the next time I do it the difference will be very subtle but you know you could chop and change you could have once leave the echo vanish the next time take it away third time leave it vanish fourth time take it away okay so here we go two three okay now we've got this track playing let's imagine we're gonna play sort of halfway through it breakbeat okay it's up to you how you know what sort of knobs and buttons and dials you sort of press or turn but again it's a bit of a demonstration really you can take it further

On. practice and enjoy thank you

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