One Way to Make a Deep House DJ Mix Even Deeper BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 I'm going to start this video from scratch

I'm going to start this video from scratch. You'll get what I mean. How do we make Deep House even deeper? That's quite a good question, isn't it really? We could always dig a big hole and plant some speakers underground, start playing tunes to the worms. Probably not a good idea. On the other hand, what we could do is take a selection of tunes and only play parts of those tracks but make it... This track is quite uplifting. I'm going to go to the other side now, this one here is Rejuvenate.

2:24 What I'm doing really is essentially just forming some loops

So what I'm doing really is essentially just forming some loops. Now I've got deck quantize on as well which means that if I'm slightly off on the loops, hopefully the quantize should snap it in time for me. Do another loop here or another one there. You see these tunes are in a way quite uplifting but I want to just capture the deepness of them. There we're back there again so...

And this is a great way of actually just practicing going from one side to the other. Okay, we've got a little bit of vocals there, it doesn't matter that much. Okay, so I've got six loops, three there, three there. Now, you heard the two tracks, there's quite a bit sort of going on, but all I'm going to do now, and again sometimes the most simplest things right in front of you go like, oh I see it now. All I'm going to do is just use these loops, that's it. Slightly.

5:48 Maybe because I've got deck quantize off

Okay, maybe because I've got deck quantize off. Okay, so what really was going on there, apart from the terrible mistake towards the end or at the end, is I'm just really, I'm looping the loops over each other. Now, where you do need to be careful is what I did and it probably was because I didn't have deck quantize on but when I snapped the next loop in The volumes were still up, so both volumes were still up. I wasn't like bringing one down and then slowly bringing the next one in. I was just going from one straight to the other. Now that can be done so long as you've got quantize on and you're very quick at maybe fine-tuning it if it's slightly off, unlike me just then. But what was going on there was I was taking parts of the track where there's very little happening and just looping that.

This is really in a way of making a track that's deep even deeper, because what you're doing is you're cutting out the middle bits. You're cutting out sort of where maybe a lot of the vocals is and the melody and so on. Now, you've taken that on board, well... We could do the opposite if we wanted to. We could just take the big parts of the track and do the same. So if you think about it now, this is I suppose the way of looking at, I mean it's like making a cake really. You have your set ingredients. For the cake, you have your butter, you have your eggs, you have your flour, you have your sugar. And of course, you can make a cake. But if you use different amounts, different quantities of those ingredients, you can make different cakes. So we have our ingredients here and we're just going to use them in a different way. So instead of me just looping the very sort of underground bits, where there's just a beat or there's just a beat and a bass line.

7:50 We're using deep tracks here

I could maybe not bother using those bits and I could use the bits where there's more going on, making it a little bit more euphoric. So we're using deep tracks here. You imagine what this would be like if you had big room piano tunes and you just looped those parts of the tracks. The mix would be up here. It would be sky high. Not only that, if you just mixed... The DJ Tutor. cue But what I'm trying to explain here is that while you're making your set, while you're putting it together, if you do want, let's say half an hour of just deepness, then something like this is going to get that for you. Because you don't have to worry about the vocals coming in or the melody coming in. You can just carry on throwing in those beats with loops for as long as you want.

This can be done on the fly as well. And the opposite applies if you want it full-on and in your face and high energy. Just loop those parts and just carry on looping them. Alright, so let's find another tune. Hold on, where are we? Yeah, we're there. I'm going to go to... Ah, actually, I'll tell you what. There was a track here. Let's see if I can find it now. The Heat. Okay, these tunes, by the way, are from the global releases from August 2020 from CDPool. Now, if you're interested in becoming part of a CDPool, check out in the description. There is a link to CDPool and if you're in and around Europe, UK, Channel Islands, Germany, France, Italy and so on, you can join in with CDPool. And if you're going to be a first time user, you do get 50% off your first two months downloads. Terms and conditions do apply. If you want to know...

10:31 It just rolls the heaps, this is called

Exactly the ins and outs of it, then by all means contact CDPool and they'll explain what you get and what you don't get. But it's a great way of getting modern day tunes, so instead of you trawling around the web trying to find some good solid house tunes, contact CDPool because they've got a good collection. These are the global releases, whether you don't know by now, there's clubby ones, there's underground ones, there's urban style hip hop and all sorts. Now what I like about this, this is just that kind of a chugger. It just rolls the heaps, this is called. You know me. Well, you know me. All I was doing there, I was just using the loop function and I was using the cue loop. So I'm just halving that loop. Now it's not the easiest thing to do but what you should try and do when you're using the cue loop to halve it or double it.

Try and do it in time with the phrase, you know not just hit it any old place. So in other words if the phrase is let's say 8 bars, you want to use the clue loop, cue loop, in a way that when you're using it you're halving and halving and halving in time with that phrase. Don't just halve at any place, halve it again and halve it again, and then you're at that point where it's going brrrr, and then you stop, and then there's a gap, and then the drop comes in. You want to try and halve it in a way so as you're halving, the drop's getting closer and closer, so the closer you get to the drop, your timing of hitting that halving is in time with the drop getting to where the drop falls, and you're at say...

12:58 A sixteenth of a beat, like I did earlier

A sixteenth of a beat, like I did earlier. Okay, alright, you know me, original mix. Okay, we'll do one more, let's have a look, what have we got here? Off again, should we go off again? Maybe not that one. Alright, I'm going to finish off with this one here, Most Precious Love. This tune's been around for like since, I don't know, probably since I was like down there, that big. It's one of those cuts that doesn't go away. And one of the originals was, it had this sort of rolling bass line. Now just listen, maybe you know it. Alright, shut up. I'll play the tune. Loving it. Most precious love, the original mix. Don't forget. These are the global releases for August 2020. Practice and enjoy. What a tune. What a tune. I'm a bit bored of it. Slightly more commercial orientated, but if you can find one of the originals, that sort of bassline just rolls and rolls and rolls. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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