Lets TRY to Define What Style These House Tracks Are Global December 2018

0:00 Got a couple of tunes here from CDPool Global December 2018

Right, got a couple of tunes here from CDPool Global December 2018. How do we define what sort of genre a house track is? Well there are so many different genres and sub-genres. It's getting not so much impossible but it is getting to the stage where it's maybe actually up to you how you want to choose or how you want to say categorise the tracks you've got. Now this one here is Crazy For You, Habra, Da Vinci and I would class this as sort of almost like Jazz House. It's got that jazzy kind of vibe but it's still house music. It's a little bit deep. I definitely wouldn't class this as Deep House. What would you class it as? Right, let's have a closer look. Alright, just bring the camera down slightly. There. You see also we've got a bit of vocals in here as well. Skip it forward a bit. Let's go.

Let's move on to the next one. Okay, now this next one I know how I would, where I'd categorise this. So how about you? Okay, skip it forward a bit. Love a fairly original mix. Don't forget all these tunes you can get on the Global releases for December 2018. There is a link to CDPool.com. Right, so it's got that nice mellow sort of chugging kind of vibe. I class this as Deep House. Okay, next one. Low Stepper. Now you see, to me mixing these two tracks in at that point just doesn't sound right. It does not sound right at all. Okay, I'm not using my headphones so I'm just going to look at the readout to make sure we get a BPM that's satisfactory close. Okay, okay, we're gonna put that to 125.3. I'm gonna put the other one to 125.3.

2:26 I'm using MP3s so the BPM will fluctuate

Now I'm using MP3s so the BPM will fluctuate. If you do want to get a more precise BPM, it's always advisable to use good software. And of course Pioneer's software is Rekordbox. You know, if you're gonna buy some Pioneer kit, you might as well use their software. It's how it is, okay? Okay, so once again, but let's wait till the end of Love Affair if we have sort of a drum pattern leading out. You know, we might get away with it now. This kind of transition where you feel and you can hear that those tones, those notes don't work well together, then what you can do that's sort of like a get-out-of-jail card is wait till the end. So I'm gonna wait till the end of the phrase and just start this one. A bit of a rough mix here. I'm not using headphones but okay, I'm gonna bring it in there.

You can sort of get away with something like that. But I wouldn't do it too much because what you will do, you'll definitely change the vibe in the room. This one here, low step, I heard it all before. Just gonna speed it forward, put it forward a little bit so you can get an idea of the rest of the track. Okay, we've got a definite sort of deep house tune here but again, we've got that little bit of vocals with it. It's slightly uplifting so it's not a true deep, deep house vibe but at the same time, you wouldn't call this hard house, not a chance. Okay, okay, next one is Heart Drug. Now that worked, that transition because it was snap, boom, straight in with the next tune. Okay, they are both pretty much the same BPM as well.

5:27 You may have a completely different opinion

This is the Arup Roy remix. That's a bit of a mouthful. Okay, now what would you class this as? What style? In a comment maybe choose a track and let's hear what you think because again, I'm watching. As a non-person, I'm giving my opinion on tracks. You may have a completely different opinion. Is this deep house? Is this soulful house? Is this gospel house? What kind is it? What do you think? Okay, I'm gonna put one more on now. This one is The Love Is Real. It's the original mix by Simon Shaw. First of all, we can hear definitely a little bit more of a hard edge with that drum pattern. You know, it's got a bit more chunk to it. Maybe class this as deep house again but it's not as deep as let's say the low stepper tune.

7:01 Got the other side set up ready to go

Very uplifting. It's got that nice kind of melody there. That, that's lovely. That is reminiscent of that sort of deep house soulful flavor. Liking it. And again, a quick sort of tutorial here. I'm gonna put the pitch in the center position. I'm going to load up the same track exactly on the other side. I'm gonna put the pitch in the center position on that side as well. Got the other side set up ready to go. Five, four, three, two. Bring the same track in on the other side. Maybe filter it out on the left. Trading with the other side. So that's, it's a transition using the same track but it's a phrase mix. I'm making sure I'm in phrase with the one side and bringing the next track in again in phrase. With the first side.

Carry on doing that all day, anywhere during the track so long as I bring the same track in at the beginning and or the end which is pretty much the same of a phrase. So let's repeat the process one more time. I'm just gonna put The Love Is Real further into the track but let's go towards maybe those vocals. Here we go. Sounds like the break.

Left hand side right at the beginning. I can hear that phasing sound so I know they're perfectly aligned. Right side and left side. Right side, right to the left side. You could have hours of fun just messing around like that. All right, hope that's been a help. Don't forget check out the link in the description to cdpool.com December Global you can get info on the tracks I'm playing as well as all of the others on this month's global series. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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