Skip to main content
2:08

NEXTBEAT. How to move a loop through the music.

Lesson Intermediate Stage 6: Performance Technique November 2010

Contents of the video

Alright guys, another vid on the next beat and we're looking at the loop again. Now I've just found something out that it's a bit of a funky thing actually and you can do this on the fly and you could probably do this just while this particular track is playing with a loop. Now quite often with a loop, you know, it's monotonous, it's the same thing over and over again but if you do this correctly you can have the loop playing but you can very subtly change the loop. What I've got is, well, right, first of all let's have a listen. Okay. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the in-adjust and the out-adjust while the loop's playing but I'm going to be moving them at the same time. So what will happen, the listener will hear a subtle difference in the loop. May take a bit of practice but if we move these two guys at the same time, we'll actually...

Excuse me, go through the music. But if you imagine my finger here is the beginning and this is the end, what's happening is the loop's there, it's staying at the same time but it's slowly moving through the music. So let's press play. Tiny bit off, but I'm sure with a bit of practice that could sound quite neat. So another video on the next beat. Practice and enjoy.

This transcript was produced automatically from the audio of the video and may contain mistakes.

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

Latest DJ Tutor Videos