New DJ Lesson on Using the bass Mid and Top EQ Great for Getting Good Timing

0:00 These are the EQs on a DJ mixer

Alright ladies and gentlemen, this is a demonstration for the beginner DJ and it's a good way of practicing learning to use the low, mid and high. These are the EQs on a DJ mixer. Track we're listening to by the way is by John De Silva, a track entitled Nothing Lost. It's on Kami Power Records. You'll see a link in the description, the name of the track and of course the link will take you to where you can get it from. Okay, so practice using the low, mid and high. First of all, timing is of the essence. If you're familiar with phrasing in a track then of course ideally you need to start counting from the beginning of a phrase. I'm going to do just that. We'll go back slightly, come to a break, coming back into the beginning of a phrase.

There. So I'm going to set a cue point there. Let's have a listen. Okay, so the idea now is first of all with the low. Bring the low, take the low out, sorry, and then bring the low in but in time with counting bars. So for example, I'm going to take the low out for the first two bars, then bring it back in for the second two. Take it out for the third. Bring it back in for the fourth two bars. The object behind this exercise is to get you used to almost imagining that you're counting the bars but you're not. Sounds a bit weird, but over time and experience, you don't count every single bar. It just comes naturally. You start to almost imagine and feel the counting instead of you having to count. I hope you understand.

2:14 Three four, four three

So. Low in first for two, out for two. In for two and out. Here we go. Bring it back again. 2, 3, 4. 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 2, 3, 4. 2, 3, 4. 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. 2, 3, 4. 1, 2... three four one two three four okay now i don't know if you noticed but there was there was structure there even what i was doing there was structure there was probably the equivalent amount of times that i turned it down as opposed to i turned it up now the next exercise is where we use the mid as well so the idea here is low down and then as soon as you bring the low up we take the mid down so it's it's two moves with two hands but we're doing this we're moving one up and we're taking one down so up on the mid down on the low up on the low and down on the

4:24 Track practice, soon bring, silva track

Mid what i'm going to do now i'm just going to try and bring the camera over slightly change the angle so you can see a little bit better let's have a look there okay so right let's go back to our q point but i'll just go a little bit further back so i've got a bit of time to get set three four one two three four one two three four first leave the bass in leave them all in two three four one two three four bass out two three four two three four now mid out two three four two three two three four one two three four okay looks very simple and probably a lot of djs who've been djing for quite a while i'm wondering what on earth is this on what's going on here well this is a really good exercise for the beginner dj okay now what we're going to do is we're going

To use all three so i'm going to leave them flat to begin with and then going to take the bass out as soon as i bring the bass in the treble this sorry the mid out beg your pardon as soon as i bring the mid back in the treble out and then back to the bass again so let's go to our cue point go back a little bit and start the procedure again this time we're using all three low mid and high we're not touching this top one because that's the trim

One two three four okay it's a very good exercise for your timing hope that's been helped check out the link in the description to the john de silva track practice and if you have any questions please feel free to email me at john de silva track practice and i'll see you in the next video enjoy thank you

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