Simple Beginner DJ Cutting Tutorial Using Drum and bass DnB

0:00 A few more tips and tricks on mixing drum and bass

Alright guys, a few more tips and tricks on mixing drum and bass. In this video I'm using a couple of tracks from an LP known as Hospitality in the Park 2017, of course from Hospital Records. There will be info in the description right there on this LP. This video is or has been uploaded September 2017, but what are you doing in October 2017? If you're not doing much and you are in or around the Aberystwyth area, then Hospitality Records are going to be at a night known as Black House in the Arts Centre in Aberystwyth. Full on drum and bass, but it's not just drum and bass. The Black House event is all styles of music. There will be techno there. There will be dubstep. There's going to be all kinds of house styles, including myself.

1:14 Whitney, a track entitled Portal

I'm going to have my own little room, possibly known as the Secret Disco. You've got to come and find me. I'll be there with a few other DJs playing, let's say, the more twisted, tweaky side of funky disco house music. It's going to be rather large. So I hope to see you there the 7th of October 2017. Tune on my left is Metric, a track entitled Fatso. On my right we have Whitney. Whitney, a track entitled Portal. So I'll give you a demonstration first then explain what's going on. Here we go.

OK, so what I'm doing very simply is I am bringing the Portal track in on the count of one. But I'm doing it in two ways. The first way, I was pressing the cue, not the play pause because I just want to press the cue and then as soon as I take my finger off the cue, the track will go back to its original position. So I'm pressing the cue on the count of one, but then I'm bringing the crossfade over on the count of two. And then, slight difference, I'm pressing the cue on the count of one but at the same time bringing the crossfade over on the count of one. So if I show you again.

2:32 One, two, three, four

Listen. One, two, four.

Two, three, four. One, two, three, four. And... One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. OK. A very, very simple exercise. But what it will do, it will help you in your timing and help you when you want to snap, literally snap that tune into the mix. Now again, mixing drum and bass like any genre isn't about that smooth transition of sort of 16 or 36 or 8 bars. Sometimes it's just a question of snapping it in right time, right place. Hope that's a help. Short video here. Practice and enjoy. See you on the 7th October in the Arts Centre Aberystwyth for Black House Hospitality as well. We'll be there.

Take care. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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