Simple Beginner DJ Lesson on a bass Swap

0:00 I'm going to call this video Bass Swap

Right, I'm going to call this video Bass Swap. Simply we're going to swap the bass from one side to the other. Two tunes I'm using on the left, Make Love which is LUV, it's the VIP mix. On the right hand side a track entitled No Chance Extended Mix and that's by Jeremy which is J-A-R-A-M-I. Left hand side J-PRIO which is J-A-Y and then P-R-Y-O-R. Hope I've got that spelled correctly, or pronounced, sorry, correctly. Now again it's entirely up to you how you form your bass swap. Many ways of course you can use the EQ but using this technique there's actually no need to use the EQ at all because you're doing a bass swap, bass line from one to the other. So first of all let's have a listen to... Towards the end of Track and Tartan Make Love. Got that bass line in the background. In a way very simple, oh there you go, bass line finishes. In a way a very simple video and if you are let's say not a new DJ you'll look at this and go pfft. If you're a new DJ you'll look at it and go ah, it is quite simple. So just around about here, bass line finishes, have a listen.

5:10 Is my eight bars before the bass line finishes

There. And anyone who doesn't know what the bass line is, it's that rolling kind of low sound in the background.

That's the bass line. Alright let's have a listen to the other track No Chance and we're at the beginning of No Chance. No Chance.

2:07 There you go, bass line comes in

There you go, bass line comes in.

Now with this track there's a little bit of an introduction to the bass line so it doesn't actually start on the one. One, that's the one. And we can see that, we've got record box here from Pioneer. We can see one of the white lines. It's got a little sort of red icon either side. Now that tells me that that is the one in a bar.

Alright let's go back to the beginning of the track. Now what we need to do is count how many bars we've got before the bass line starts. One. Two. Three. Two. One. Two. Three. Three. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Five. One. Two. Three. Six. One. Two. Three. Seven. One. Two. Three. Eight. One. Two. Three. There. So all we need to do is go back eight bars into the bass line of Make Love, start No Chance eight bars in while the bass line is playing. So if you think about it, we have a countdown. One of eight bars, a count up of eight bars. So as soon as bass line finishes, bass line comes in. Yes, I have done videos like this before but the more information you can get out there, the better. End of. Right so what we need to do now, we need to determine whereabouts inside that track.

We've got eight bars before the bass line finishes. So I'm going to go back a little bit. Do a hot cue there.

Okay so you hear that sort of like... I'm just going to try that point. Let's see how many bars we've got from here. It could be four, it could be eight. More than likely it's going to be four. One. Two. Three. Four. Two. Two. Three. Four. Three. Two. Three. Four. Four. Two. Three. Four. There. Now you can't see this okay because I'm using a fisheye lens but what I'm looking at here now on the wave format and it's a good way of let's say just working out visually if you have four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two bars. Now I can see sort of a gap in the wave format and then where I started counting and where the line is now that was four bars. But if I move back a little bit further I can see a similar distance to another gap and the part just above my finger that amount of space seems to be the same as the other amount.

So I'm going to hazard a guess which I know is correct. Yeah, okay you get it. And I'm going to go from there and I'm pretty sure if that's four same distance that should be four. Four and four is 4,627 of course-ish. Right so let's go back a little bit.

Okay so from here.

There.

There.

Is my eight bars before the bass line finishes. I'll prove it. Listen. One. Two. One. Two. Three. Two. One. Two. Three. One. Two. Three. Four. One. Two. Three. Five. Six. One. Two. Three. Seven. One. Two. Three. Bananas. One. Two. Three. There. Alright so all I'm going to do is go a little bit further back before those eight bars start the deck on the right hand side slowly bring it in we have a bass swap. What could be more simpler? Going to the toilet. Right so are they both same speed right again you know this is demonstration I wouldn't normally do this 124, 123.55 so I'm going to speed this one up a little bit and again try not to be a screen watcher okay please use your ears once you've used your ears and you've learnt the hard way then of course you can do what you want then.

Right so here we go.

Am I going to do anything else? There you go.

No need to mess around with the bass, middle or treble for this example. Okay hope that's been a help if you want any info on the tracks I've been playing check out the link in the description practice and enjoy thank you and again there's lots more that you can do to this you can elaborate in many ways by adding effects adding loops and so on this is really for the beginners very simple explanation of a bass swap practice and enjoy.

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