Muscle Memory for the New Mixing DJ CD Pool Club February 2019

0:01 Some more new releases from CDPool

Alright guys, some more new releases from CDPool. First of all, I'm going to play a few tunes, give you an idea of what to expect on the dance releases for February 2019. Don't forget there will be a link in the description to cdpool.com. This one here is Limbo Joss Stone Remix. Oh sorry, Joss Stone. Oh god. Edit. I'll edit that bit. This is Limbo and this is Jostone remix. Alright, I'm going to give you a demo first of some of the tunes and then we're going to do something that is called muscle memory. It's a great way of learning how to beatmatch. Muscle memory. Just stick that in your mind right now. This one here is track number 7. Okay, next one I bring in is Trust, Super Mini Extended Remix. I like that, the Super Mini Extended Remix. A small ext... Okay, so it's...

It's 6 minutes and 8 seconds, .899 long. So it's 6 minutes and 9 seconds long and it's a super mini extended remix. Oh my god, that's like having a really fast slow car. Okay, let's spin it forward a little bit. This one here is Trust. Okay, so what have we got? The dance releases are... They're big, they're bold. They're not like Big Room full on in your face some of the time. Occasionally they are. They're more like vocally cheesy, the sort of tunes you'd expect to hear daytime radio but more often than not on the dance releases from CDPool you have the extended versions so they're going to last a little bit longer than three and a half minutes so the phrasing is going to be longer in a radio version generally the phrasing is two bars maybe four bars

3:07 Stonebridge and Damien Hall extended epic mix

And that's about three and a half minutes of a track. But when you go into six minutes, five and a half, six, seven and eight minutes, the phrasing is going to be bigger. You're going to have eight bars, 16 bars, sometimes 24 in techno and trance, more like maybe 32 bars before you get a change. Okay, so this is track number nine. Let's grab something else and stick it on to the side. This one here, Reach the Sky Stonebridge. What is it? Stonebridge and Damien Hall extended epic mix. Let's randomly select what the F, extended version. This is what I don't get, the extended version, and it's got 3 minutes and 23 seconds on. My God, if this is the extended, what would the edit be like? I don't know, but let's carry on with this. Just spin it forward a bit.

Nice chugging kind of vibe to this tune. Slight change there when she went... Put it forward a bit. I mean the dance releases, you know, they are your sort of commercial tracks. You would probably hear, I'm just picturing in my mind now, in a big city or in any place where there's loads of bars and pubs and you've got this sort of bar. With the DJ stuck in the corner, everyone turns up at sort of 9 in the evening ready, you know, they go there first of all before they go to a club that stays open a lot longer. You go in, you've got these cheesy lights flashing everywhere, you've got a whole bunch of people on the dance floor, handbags on the ground listening to commercial music like this. It's still good stuff though. WTF. I'll let you work that one out. Alright, let's have a look. Let's try this one here.

5:22 Pineapple Radio, Just Kidding Remix

Pineapple Radio, Just Kidding Remix. Alright, I'm not trying to do some magical smooth transition here. Okay, this one here, Pineapple Radio, Just Kidding Remix. Speed it forward a little bit. Alright, what I want to do now... Let's have a listen to this. Yeah, this is a bit like a big room tune, isn't it? You know, you can feel... A lot of energy in this track. Yeah, liking it. Nice sort of what I would class as a commercial yet soulful vibe to this tune. Okay, this one here, Damn 2, Mark Picotti Club Remix. Liking this one as well. Yeah, I mentioned earlier on, didn't I, about, you know, Prior to going to a nightclub, these sort of tunes would be the ones you'd listen to in a bar before going. But that's not always the case, alright? A tune like this, you know, you would probably hear in more of a commercial-type club that's open until 4 o'clock in the morning. You know, main part of the evening, main set, you know? But again, it depends where you're going. If you're going into a techno club and you play this, you get bottles thrown at you.

Well, probably would, wouldn't it? Alright, let's go towards the end of this tune. Let's do muscle memory. Pay attention. Stop picking your nose. Okay, right, we're coming towards the end of this. Okay, so cue that one up. Right, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put that piece of paper over the screen so I can't see the BPM or anything like that. Now, I've sort of set the same speed roughly but I'm going to speed that one up a little bit and...

8:29 Exactly what I'm doing and why

Okay, so I've allowed myself a tiny bit of time before the next phrase. I'm going to allow myself a little bit more time. Okay, literally a second. What I'm going to do is beatmatch the right hand side into that, bring it in as quick as I can and repeat the process again and again and again. Then I'll explain exactly what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. Here we go. Let's do it again. Okay, let's do it again. Let's do it again. Speed that one up a little bit. Roughly about the same position.

10:07 We're going to do some muscle memory

Okay, right, so that's me getting ready. Now we're going to do some muscle memory. Okay, let's do that again. Okay, let's do that again. Okay, let's do that again. Let's do it again. Let's do it again. Let's do it again. Let's do it again. And let's do it again. Okay, let's just quickly look at the BPM. 123.4, 123.6. It's roughly about that. But then again, I'm not using rekordbox, so BPM can fluctuate when you're not using correct software. Probably couldn't fluctuate even if you are, but it's always a good idea to use your ears. So what's going on? Now, muscle memory is about repetitive movements, time again and again and again and again. The main reason I had the hot cue here set not on the beat, in some random place in between the beat, is because I wanted to try and feel where that was.

Even without me thinking about it, I was very quickly naturally expecting the beat to come in time. I was automatically, my brain was thinking, you've got that, bam, straight in. Listen. There, see? So muscle memory is about repetitive movements. So again, you could, if you wanted to, set the hot cue on a beat. So you, two, three, four, one. Now that's still difficult, but it's slightly more easier than what I'm doing. This is actually much more difficult, but you're pushing your brain, you're pushing that envelope, get it going sunshine, to make it more difficult. Repetitive movements like this... Time and time again, you're doing it just over and over and over and over again, will help with muscle memory. So it's that internal you not thinking about what you're doing, you're feeling about what you're doing, which means you can think about doing other things like scratching your testicles and stuff like that. Of course if you're a lady, find someone who's got some testicles. Anyway, I hope that's been a help. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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