Intermediate DJ Lesson on How to Keep the Vibe Feel of Your Mix Video 2

0:00 Another video on keeping the vibe, or trying to follow a certain vibe

Alright ladies and gentlemen, another video on keeping the vibe, or trying to follow a certain vibe. I've got a whole bunch of tracks here, lots of noise in the background, it's bedtime for children, therefore it's mayhem.

Okay, also as well, I thought I'd do this video bare today.

So what I'm going to do is, I've got a load of tracks with similar sort of key, and I'm going to randomly choose one on that side, and then I'm going to try and keep the same vibe on this side. Now even though they're in key, the feel of the tracks could be very different. So for example, some could uplift the vibe, some of the tracks could make the vibe a bit lower, others could keep it at a par. I'm going to try and find a track that keeps whatever track I find on that side at a par. Now just to check, I've got on this, sorry in this folder, 41 tracks. So if I go right to the beginning, that's number 1, and all the way to the other side is 41. So at the moment, I'm right at the beginning, so I'm now going to scroll, if I scroll that way like that,

So I'm going to close my eyes, see eyes closed, up and down, up and down, all the way down, and maybe up this way a little bit, down this way, and I'll sort of go back there. So I've now chosen a random track which is track number 36, which is 68 Lost, it's the original mix by Amin, Edge and Dance. Let's have a listen.

Okay, so what I'm going to try and do now is try and find a track on this side that will keep the vibe of this track. Let's have a listen.

Alright, my first train of thought is, what is this track doing to me? Because whatever it's doing to me, it's highly likely if I play this to the crowd, it will do the same to them. Now it's sort of a chugger, you know, it's deep, it's deep, it's got a little bit of a deep emphasis. It's a bit like being a chef making some soup. You know, you want to add flavours, but you want to express the soup. You don't want to change it, you want to try and highlight the joy of people trying the soup. You don't overpower it, too much salt, it'll taste terrible. Not enough salt, it'll taste terrible. So what I'm trying to do here is sort of picture the track and how does it make me feel. Okay, so it's deep, it's a bit soulful, it's got that wicked sort of bass line.

Okay, I'm going to try and bear that in mind now and let's try and find something that's very similar in vibe.

3:04 Another one, have a listen

Okay, I mean, it's not bad, but then it's a little bit lower. It's just, it's got that... Slightly deeper feel, so I'm going to just put a hot cue there anyway on this. Let's go right to the beginning. Okay, I'm going to bear that one in mind. Let's go to another one, have a listen to another track.

No, you see, no, no, I don't like that. It just, straight away, I didn't get the feel that that would work with that track to keep the vibe going. Let's have a listen to this one.

Maybe, maybe, I'll just set another hot cue on that one. Just make sure we've... No, we don't want that one.

We've already had that one, so let's have a listen. Try another one.

Okay, maybe it'll look better.

Yeah, I'm liking this sort of good vibe. It's a little bit more deeper. It's... How can I put it? It's a bit more funky, but it does, for me, it does seem to keep that kind of vibe going. So let's try this one. Here. And this one is Sleaze Velona, S-L-E-A-Z, new word, V-I-L-L-A-N-O-V-A. And it's a track entitled Beautiful. Okay, so let's go back to this track here. And of course I need to make sure that I'm mixing it in phrase, in time. But that's what... This video isn't about that. Really, this video is about keeping the sort of vibe or the feel of the mix itself. Just trying to find a good place to bring it in.

6:15 I went too bad, but I think I brought it in too soon

I went too bad, but I think I brought it in too soon. Let's have another listen.

Okay, now I need to wait for the right phrase.

Okay, so slightly rough, but what we've done is we've kept the vibe. The whole object of keeping the vibe is to make sure that the dance floor doesn't move.

When you want to keep the flow or the feel, the vibe, you want to keep the dance floor the way it is. If you want to uplift the vibe, then of course you need to play something that will make the feel uplift or make it go lower. And in future videos very soon, I'll be showing you how to do that as well. Practice and enjoy. I'm sure this bear's just out of shit. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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