Simple Mobile DJ Mixing Transitions Without the Use of the Pitch Fader

0:00 As well is maybe a couple

Futunes here from the Urban Releases October 2017 CDPool. Track number one, disc number one, this is Fergie and on the right hand side I have track number one from disc number two by Logic. All the information will be in the description along with a link taking you to the CDPool website. What I'm going to show you as well is maybe a couple of transitions for the mobile DJ. Now, the transitions I'm going to show you are definitely not for the scratch turntablist. These are really, imagine you're in the middle of a set, someone comes along and says, can you play XYZ track? And you get it ready on the other side and you just want to bring it in. You don't want to start... The DJ Tutor offers a wide range of options for mixing. The DJ Tutor offers a wide range of options for mixing

2:08 First time with the first one

Now, even though that's at the beginning of the vocals, that does not mean to say that is the beginning of a bar. This is something that will come in time if you're a new DJ, but a lot of the times when you hear a track, or should I say a lot of the times when you hear the beginning of the vocals in a track, it... You know, they're not going to start always at the count of one. They may start before the count of one or after the count of one. Now, in this case, they're actually starting on the two in a bar. So if I just rewind this slightly and cue it up there. OK, did you hear that note? That is the count of one in a bar. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to set a hot cue. Now I'm also now going to set a hot cue at the beginning of the vocals and prove a point. There, so what I'm going to do first, I'm going to start from my second hot cue and start counting bars 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 so on until we get to the beginning of the track where the drum pattern kicks in and let's do that twice

Firstly on the first hot cue I made, secondly on the second hot cue. So here's the first one. Here's the second one. Okay so first time with the first one. One two three four. One two three four. One two three four. Two three four. Two three four. One two three four. One two three four. Now, do you notice the drum pattern started on the one? Now let's start with the second hot cue. Okay, so all I'm going to do is a very simple transition here. Let's play the Fergie tune again. There. Very simple, one straight into the other. Alright now a transition like that you haven't got to worry about BPM speed or anything at all because the BPMs are completely different on these two tunes. On the right hand side the Logic sound is saying 135 BPM and Fergie is saying 113. Now what's happened is the software has decided that it's double time when really

This is half time, so this is why you must never completely rely on the readout of the BPM because you could fall flat on your face. So let's pick another tune from disc number one.

5:22 Again, all I did, I tried to imagine the chat

Now again, all I did, I tried to imagine the chat. Imagine a conversation with two people. You would never interrupt a conversation. What you would tend to do is wait for someone to finish maybe what they're saying, a sentence, and then bring in the next track or then the next person would talk. So that's what I tried to do there. I tried to imagine the conversation on the right-hand side not to try and chop halfway through a sentence. Wait till the end of a... This is track number three from disc number one. Okay, let's find something from disc number two. Notice I'm not touching the pitches at all, leaving them exactly center point. Imagine we're playing close to the track. Straight in. This is track number five.

7:42 We're going to listen to the end

This is from disc number 2. Don't forget as well, if you want any more information on any of the tracks, check out the link in the description to CDpool.com where you'll get info on this twin CD as well as all of the other releases from CDpool. And don't forget, every single track I play there's a soundbite of these tracks and all of the other tracks on the website. Okay, track 5, disc number 2. Okay, let's go towards the end of this track here. Have a listen. We're going to listen to the end. Okay, that's how it ends. Not such a good transition there. Again, what I'm trying to think of here is ways in which we can go from one track to the other without touching the pitch, without messing around with BPM or anything like that. It's pretty much one into the other track. So that was a beginning and end tune. Okay, this one here is track number seven from disc number one. I'm going to do one more.

10:44 Hot cue, which was the beginning

Find a cut from disc number 2 to go into track 7. Okay, so I'm going to do an echo. Okay, so I formed an echo on track number 7. Now I've got two hot cues on track number 10. Okay, so what went on there with track number 10? Hot cue, which was the beginning. Okay, let's go back to the beginning. Oh no, sorry, it wasn't exactly at the beginning, that's right. This is the exact beginning. Okay, so we've got a tiny bit of a gap before we get some kind of a sound. That's why I put the hot cue there. And then what I did, I set another hot cue where the drop comes in. Because if I had played, well... Again, it's about the venue. It's about what's happening on the floor. Do the people want to have a nice mellow kind of drop for quite a while or do they want to come straight into a tune? Now what I decided here was I didn't want to play all of this long introduction. I just wanted to play a little bit of it and bang, straight into the tune. So this is pretty much where I came in with the drop. See, I'm going to put another hot cue there. Okay, so we've got...

Maybe another eight bars before the drop comes in. What I did is I completely took away that eight bars and went straight into the drop. So I went from somewhere, I did this, so we started off there, let it build slightly. Okay right, so again take this video however you want to. There could be no tips at all for you or you may be thinking that's not bad, that was terrible, I could work with that. Again this video really is targeted for the mobile DJ. Who does not want to mess around with pitch, mess around with BPM. Pretty much chop one, bang straight into the other. Hope it's been a help. Practice and enjoy. This is track number 10.

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