Intermediate DJ Lesson on Getting the Perfect Mix in Every Way

0:00 This is an intermediate DJ mixing lesson

Alright guys, this is an intermediate DJ mixing lesson. Two tunes I'm using are from CDPool, the global releases for July 2014. Check out the link in the description. Track on the left is track number 3, Come Together, from disc number 1. This track over here on my right is track number 7 from disc number 2, a track entitled Come Back to Me. So what we're going to do here is formulate a mix, get it exactly in time and exactly in time, more importantly with bars and phrases. If we threw this in anywhere it probably would be okay but we want to get it perfect. Let's have a listen to the latter part of the track entitled Come Together. Okay so I'm just going to go back a bit. Now let's have a listen for the change in the track. And here we go, there. Have a listen again.

We stopped hearing the come on. Let's start counting from that point.

1:36 At that point there have a listen

And 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 1, 2, 3, 11, sorry for 12, 1, 2, 3, 13, 1, 2, 3, 14, 1, 2, 3, 15, 1, 2, 3, 16. Bang! Okay, now at that point there have a listen. Let's see what sort of sounds we've got. That's pretty much our outro. Let's have a listen to the beginning of the Come Back To Me track. Excuse me. 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 2, 3, 4, 7, 2, 3, 4, 8, 2, 3, 4, 9, 2, 3, 4, 10, 2, 3, 4. 4 11 2 3 4 12 2 3 4 13 3 4 14 3 15 2 3 4 16 2 3 4 right so it should be pretty much straightforward that's not all though because we want to use a bit of the EQ so what I'm going to do I'm going to reduce the low on the track coming in

3:51 Together, keeping, beat match

I'm going to bring that turn it down to the seven o'clock position leave the bass also known as the low mid and high on the track that's playing the come-together track at 12 o'clock and I'm going to use I'm gonna do the mix by bringing the up fader up I'm not going to use crossfade I don't particularly like using crossfades it's entirely up to you I prefer to use the up faders so what we'll do we'll go back to the come together track we'll get to our cue point just to get ready so really what we've got is 16 bars to beat match but then again we should have beat match this prior to so in other words if we've got it already beat match we should just be able to press the play pause or play and then maybe move the jog wheel forward and back to get it perfectly in time and

Then bring it in so I've moved the come together back come together track back slightly to get to give me a little bit of time to get ready so here we go just tapping on the cue almost like keeping me keeping myself in time here we go slowly bringing volume in still keep the best keeping bass down here so I'm gonna maybe slowly start to bring the bass in on the one coming in take the bass out slightly on come together both still playing together nicely and we had some jet bypass on the come together and straight out okay don't forget if you want any info on these tracks check out the link in the description go directly to cdpool.com practice and enjoy thank you

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