Intermediate DJ Mixing Lesson on a Quick Mix Change Over

0:00 Concentrate on this deck here

Right guys, another demonstration tutorial. Concentrate on this deck here. This video is targeted really for your intermediate to advanced DJs. You need to concentrate on that deck. This isn't an easy move but if you practice and enjoy, it should not only look good but sound good. Not good. Being that the people watching are seeing something happening and sounding good means that something's always happening as well, audio-wise. Okay. Just bring that forward a little bit.

Whoops. Don't want to do that though.

1:56 Playing a track here

Okay, looks very simple and it is in a way if you know what you're doing. So what was I doing? I don't like scratching my balls earlier on but you don't really want to look at me like that. I don't want to look at that because you can know, well, you should know how to do that. Okay, so first of all, we were, yeah, names of the tracks will be in the description. Playing a track here. Now while that track was playing, CDJ 2000 Nexus, what you can do is you can scroll to another file, another track by using the wheel here or of course the track search which is what I did. So while that track's playing, I went to... I went to another track but I did that while I was in the mix as well. So if you imagine track one is playing, you mix in track two while you are doing the mix. This is the key. While you're actually doing the mix, you then scroll to the next file and then what you need to do is you need to, you know, try and get a smooth transition if possible because the objective here is as soon as you bring the one track, you're going to be able to do it.

You need to bring the other track, in my case acapella, in as quickly as possible. Now the only way of doing that is to make sure that you take the track out that's playing, bring it out before the end of a phrase because if you bring that out exactly at the end of a phrase, then you have a few or maybe even one or one and a half or two seconds delay before you can bring the acapella in or your next track. Now let's say, for example, you have set cue points through Rekordbox. You can do that because it means you can just set a cue point two or three seconds in, one bar into the track but then you always have that little bit of a gap. So what I did is this track was playing, I started to mix in the next track prior to the end of a phrase, I tried to, you know, filter this one out so it just disappeared very slightly.

At the end of the phrase, at the beginning of the next phrase, I quickly pressed on the button, the dial, sorry, to bring in the next track which was of course Armand Van Helden, The Boogie Monster and then press play. And then away we go. You start pressing play and you can bring the track in. Now of course let's take it to the next level. While you're playing the acapella, you're then hot cueing it and then you can start messing around with a hot cue.

4:38 I'm going to put my hands in the air, smell my B.O

Just mixing one into the other and leaving it and just going to smoke a big fat cigar and going, come on everybody dance. I'm going to put my hands in the air, smell my B.O. There they are. I had a shower this morning as well. No I didn't, honestly. And I used soap. Don't use any deodorant though because it's terrible, it's really bad for you. But what happens is the crowd can see what you're doing and they think, shit, this DJ's got some balls. Unless you're a lady and you like football and you just happen to carry footballs with you. Tennis ball? I don't know. Erm, so, what? Shut up. Shut up. OK, sorry. So what you're doing is you are working hard, you are having fun and you're showing the crowd as well that you're having a bit of fun.

So, erm, let's try and do... You see I've got the same acapella on this one as well. I think I forgot that twice. Ah right. Let's have a listen. OK no, I can't really do that because I haven't got time. And also the beginning of that track. Erm, doesn't start banged correctly on the count of one. So again, if you're not going to use the Rekordbox software you need to make sure that the track, the acapella is on the one. It starts as soon as you hit that cue point. Alternatively, if it doesn't start on the one as soon as the file is loaded then of course you can do that through the Rekordbox software. I hope that's been a help. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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