Simple DJ Lesson on Phrase Mixing BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

Right guys, Jonathan here, lead you by DJ Academy. I have just done this video but to be quite honest the exposure of the camera was too bright and it was very difficult to see on the whiteboard so I'll do it again. This is a very simple video explaining phrase mixing. Now imagine this is the end of a track and these parts here are 16 bars, 16 bars and 16 bars. So this is the end of the track and this is the end of the track. This is the beginning of our new track. We have 16 bars, 16 bars and 16 bars. Now this is why phrase mixing is very important because if you're out of time, even if the kicks are correct, the key is correct, if you're out of time in phrase mixing the whole mix probably won't sound very good.

Now if you imagine this point here, the beginning of this track, you bring in let's say for example here. Then what will happen is you'll always have that little gap. There'll always be, say you'll always be one bar out or maybe two bars out so of course it depends where you bring it in. For example if you bring this part here on the 14th bar you'll always be out on the next 14th bar and so on but if you bring this point here in there at the beginning of the 16th bar. So the beginning of the 16th bar. If the beginning of the track is at the beginning of the 16th bar here then by the time you get to here you are there. At that point, there. So if I put a little line on the top you'll see the line on the top there and then we move along the next 16 bars here, that little squiggly line there, you'll end up being there, that squiggly line there.

So if you look at the construction of that in relation to that, you can pretty much do something like this. There's the first 16 bars and there is our group of two 16 bars. So also let's take this to the next level. Let's imagine this is our bass line. Our bass line finishes, kick and kick, kick, kick, bass line and kick. So if you do this sort of transition correctly. Bass line finishes on the 10th bar. Bass line finishes on the 12th bar. Bass line finishes on the 13th bar. Bass line finishes on the 14th bar. Bass line finishes on the 15th bar. Bass line finishes on the 15th bar. Bass line finishes on the 16th bar. Bass line finishes on the 17th bar. So if you look at the track that's finishing, bass line starts on the track that's coming in.

So the kick here will pretty much be under here. There's our bassline, there's our bassline and there's our kick. So while one is moving out, the other one's coming in. All right it does make sense, believe me. Practice and injure me, thank you.

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