Quick DJ Phrase Mixing Lesson

0:00 Very basic demonstration on phrase mixing

Alright guys, here we go. Very basic demonstration on phrase mixing. This is a really good way of practising as well. This video is going out to anyone of course who wants a little bit of information and also to John, just giving a Skype lesson too. Right, so I've got a track here from Mr Low Stepper himself. What I have done is I've set a cue point at the beginning and end of a phrase towards the latter part of the track which is here. What I'm now going to do, or what I have done, is I've just rewound the platter a little bit to give me a counting from that cue point. So there's the cue point. So just go back a little bit, cue it up. Now that's given me a little bit of time to get ready. Now here's the important part. The hot cue, the cue point, beginning and end of a phrase.

1:06 Press play, rewind a little bit

That is one minute, one minute and two seconds. So first of all, all I am doing is I am waiting. I can visually see where the beginning and end of a phrase is. Press play, rewind a little bit. So now I have given myself a little bit of a counting. So now I'm at one minute and eleven seconds. You could do one minute eight, one minute four, one minute three, one minute nine or it doesn't matter. You're just giving yourself a little bit of a count. So now not only have you got your hot cue set, you know that your phrasing, the beginning and end of a phrase will start at the one minute and two seconds. I've got my headphones on. I've made sure that the two tracks I'm using are the same BPM and I've got the beginning of the other track.

So the beginning of the other track is the beginning of a phrase, the beginning of a bar. So if the other track that I'm using, of course it is, has correct phrasing eight, eight and eight as the track that's finishing, finishes its phrase or should I say starts its next phrase, it should also have a structure the same structure with the track that's coming in. In other words, we should have structure in the phrasing of maybe eight or maybe a sixteen and a change. But I know there is a change of eight, eight and eight on the track that's finishing. Same as there was a change with the track that's coming in eight, eight and eight and so on bars, of course, one, two, three, four, times by eight. So press play here.

2:31 Listen there using any bass, middle treble

So as soon as I get to my woman and two, I can also hear the change in the music. Listen there using any bass, middle treble. All we're doing is we're forming a phrase mix. Okay, so there you go. So I think the important part of this tutorial stroke demonstration was not the mix wasn't how good or bad it was. It's about how to get to the stage of making a mix like this. Find the end of one track, get the beginning of the next track ready at the end of the one track. Make sure you have set a cue point at the beginning and end of a phrase. Make note of the time of where that cue point is. Rewind the deck a little bit. So not only have you got your cue point, you know your time, you've also got the audio change of the track as well.

As soon as you get to the beginning, the end of a phrase, press play on the other side, mix them in bang practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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