Intermediate DJ Lesson Impress with Transitions That Stand out in the Club

0:00 First of all this video is going out to Mr Jaggard Strong

Alright ladies and gentlemen, first of all this video is going out to Mr Jaggard Strong. I gave him a Skype lesson today. If you are interested, by the way, in one-to-one Skype lessons with myself, Jonathan, The DJ Tutor, then check out the link in the description. There's an email there, practiseandjoyatdjtutor.com. Send me an email, ask me some questions and I'll explain what happens. It's pretty much me and you, one-to-one for one hour, showing you how to do mixing techniques on controllers or... Alright, so this video is going out to Mr Jagard Strong. What are we going to do? Let's have a look at the decks. So I'm just going to point it in that direction there and move it back a little bit. Okay, so let's just set that straight. Got these tracks ready. What we're going to do here is a transition using three tracks. Very simple and quick transition. There is no need to beatmatch anything. Make sure they're in key or keys that work.

1:56 The dance floor is jumping up and down

What we're going to do is we're going to have one track. We're going to bring in snippets of another one, but we're not going to play that one. We're going to go to a third track. What you can do then, if you want to, is go to the second track. Have I confused you? Hopefully not. So imagine, for example, tracks playing on this side over here, happily chugging away the dance floors jumping up and down. Thanks for watching. Track playing here. The dance floor is jumping up and down. While that track's playing, what you're doing over here is you're getting the next track ready. Actually, let's rewind a little bit. This is where it gets exciting. You've got a track over here. This track's playing quite happily. What you want to do is you want to form some hot cues on two tracks on this side. Now you can form one, or sorry, two hot cues, one on each track,

As I've done, I've formed two hot cues on one and one on the other. So, this track's playing. Prior to playing this track, you get hot cues ready. You're thinking in advance. Then, you get the next track and you mix in your next track here. Fair enough. Then you mix in a track over this side. Right, OK, so now we've got 1, 2, we're onto track 3. 4 and 5 on this side. How can we get 4 and 5 over here? I'll show you. While this track's playing then, what you can do is edit in the next cut. So for example, if we have a listen here. So, we had a tiny bit of Avicii in there, but we didn't play Avicii. What we did, in another video, I've done quite a few of these teasing the crowd. Maybe we did, we actually teased the crowd. They thought they were getting Avicii. We didn't give them Avicii, we gave them something else. Now, I didn't beatmatch those. They could have been slightly off there, 128.7.

5:00 Our hot cues

126.8, then if we go to Avicii, I'll look at the BPM here, 128.7. Okay, so we've got different BPMs, but, okay, so we've got over here, this track's playing. Alright, yeah, that was, that sort of part of the tutorial was a little bit rough, but hopefully you get the general idea, so let's go back. Quite a bit. We have a track playing over here. What we're doing, or what we do while this track is playing on our headphones, we will get a couple of cue points on two other tracks we will play in the future. All right? It could be like five, six minutes away. We then mix in track two here. We then mix in track three over this side. When we've got track three playing, we then go to our hot cues, hot cue one, for example, Avicii, then the second hot cue, which is... And then all we've gotta do

Let's find Avicii over here and play it. But we could have also found Avicii earlier on while that track was playing, alright? Right, you know, it looks very intricate but it is not at all. Now I did give an analogy here to Mr Jaggard Strong earlier on and I'm going to give you the exact analogy. Pretty much anywhere in the world we have speed restrictions. In some countries there are none at all. Over here you've got a speed restriction and by law you need to stay within that limit. Now if you do stay within the speed limit it's highly unlikely you will have an accident because you're safe, well theoretically, depends of course on other road users. One tip my dad told me many many years ago, he said when you're on the road treat every single other road user as a complete and utter idiot. If you do that then it's highly likely that you'll stay safe while you're driving.

7:41 One drop into that white paint

But there are some road users who stretch the law a little bit. Their right hand foot is a little bit light and fluffy. It's like a feather. Sorry, lead weight. They like to go... They get there faster. It gives them a buzz. It gives them some energy. It makes them feel like... I'm not saying you should speed. But what they are doing is they're just pushing the boundaries. This is what's happening here. You're pushing the boundaries. You're not just going mix, mix, mix, mix. You're pushing the boundaries. So let's have a look at this. Right, let's just put that like that. Add some effect as well. Another thing I said to Jagard Strong today is you've got a pot of white and a pot of red paint. There you go. If I was to take a litre of each, if I was to take one drop of the red and add it to the white and mix it thoroughly, that white paint would no longer be perfectly white. Prior to putting that one drop in, it was as perfectly white as perfectly white can be.

One drop into that white paint. Mix it and mix it and mix it. To the untrained eye, it would still be white. But to someone who understands colour, it would be slightly different. Very slightly. But it would be different. It would be a different colour. It would start to go pink. The more drops you add, the more pink it becomes. Until eventually, it's no longer white, it's no longer red, it's pink. See you there. Okay, Mobile Beat Las Vegas in about a week's time from the date of this video. I will be there representing Vmoda and yeah, have fun. Don't forget Skype lessons as well. Down there you'll see an email. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. Can I go now?

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