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Simple Way to Make a DJ Set and Remember What You Did

Lesson Beginner Stage 5: Musical Craft November 2020

Contents of the video

0:01 Deck track, listen track, deck left

Right, this is sort of a demonstration, a bit of a review, also tutorial on one way of putting a set together. Now I'm using the tracks from CD4 Club December 2019 and I have got a track on the left hand side, track entitled Touch Me. Now of course all of these tracks can be found on the website, just google lookupcd4.com, there is a link in the description, Club December 2019. Okay, so what I'm going to do is because I'm using them in alphabetical order, I'm just going to put something like this. So T is for track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and this is a rough idea, and track 1, you can see I've got two boxes there, right and left, so of course right deck, left deck, so I could put right and left deck.

So track 1 is track 1, make sense? Alright, so what I need to do now is find something that I can bring into this. So I'm going to go to the next track, have a listen, no, no, yeah, okay, so I'm going to use track number 4, so track 4 is my second track, so of course 1, so if we look here at your tracks, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, left deck, track number 1, and then right deck, track number 2, which is track number 4. I hope this makes sense. Let's have a quick listen to track number 4.

Okay, so now I'm just going to skip through them.

2:11 Listen to number 7

Oh, it's so good. So, and track 3 is going to be track number 7. Okay, so listen to number 7. Okay, so get to track number 8, and I will give you the names during the course of sort of the mix, but again, when I do this mix, I'm going to sort of skip through it and just show the transitions. Okay, so... It's going to be number 8.

I like this one, this is pretty funky actually, because you've got that sort of dubstep, grimy kind of feel, and you think, yep, like it, it's that sort of style, but listen to it.

Liking it. Very nice.

That's number 8.

Okay.

Number 9.

Nice uplift from a grimy sort of deep tune, something a bit more uplifting.

That could have worked.

4:33 In slightly greater detail, and

Yeah, 15.

Ooh, Jeanette Jackson remix. Okay, so... All right, so again, to explain in slightly greater detail, and this is one way, it's a quick way, it's an easy way, but it's not confusing. I have my tracks here, so track 1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. I have R for right, L for left. So my first track is going to be track 1 on the left. My second track is going to be track 4 on the right. My third track is going to be track 7 on the left. Fourth track, track 8 on the right. Fifth track, track 9 on the left and sixth track, track 15 on the right. Now, bearing in mind as well, this is going to be sort of a quick mix. I'm not going to be sort of letting everything play, show you a few of the transitions and so on. And also, I will be telling you the names of the tracks.

So let's go back to track number 1. And off we go.

Okay, so this one here is the Kevin McKay extended mix. Aiden, it's pronounced A-D-Y-N, backing title Touch Me. Track 2 over here. Which is track number 4.

Is Diego Brown Amazing, the Kebab and Cream Club mix. So let's skip this forward a bit.

Okay, so now he's going to go to track 3.

Oh sorry, track 7. Confusing myself now.

Okay, I'm going to skip this one forward a bit. Let's go towards the end maybe.

We've got a break.

8:02 Track number 8

Okay, used to be a bit of a loop there. So track 7, which is All I Ever Wanted.

Next one is track number 8. Track number 8 here, which is very nice. Hamper Bergen and Alexandra Brown. Featuring Busta Rhymes, the man himself.

Okay, so the next one now is track number 9. What I'm trying to do is not just a beginning and end. Mash it up in the middle.

Okay, go towards the end a little bit. Fact this one, but we'll see. Okay, this one. Quabico remix, When I Think of You. Okay, number 15 now on this side.

Oh, one of my favourite producers, Low Stepper. The man.

11:41 Slightly out of phrase

Slightly out of phrase.

Sunshine. Okay, Low Stepper, Sunshine extended mix.

This is like, this guy's amazing. Some of his stuff he brings out. Actually all of his stuff he brings out is top notch. Go and Google Low Stepper. If everybody gets to watch this video, thumbs up to your geezer. Alright, so once again, let's just clarify. Okay, this is really important because this is a really quick way of just forming a set. You have T, L, R. Your track, left, right. Very simple. Track 1, 2, 3. I've just done 6. You can do however many you want. So the left deck, of course, in your files. Track 1. The right deck then, which is the second track. I've got, I've got track 4, which is next to 2. 3, left deck, it was track number 7 and so on. Again, if you're using different folders, of course, you would put folder, hip hop, fourth track and so on.

But I hope that's a help. There it is. Thank you very much. And by the way, if you are interested in CD pool and you're new to any form of CD pool. In this description, in the description of this video is a code. If you go to the website and use that code, check out terms and conditions. You can get 50% off your first downloads. It's not for everything on the website, but it's for quite a bit of stuff. So 50% isn't too bad, is it really? All right. Thank you very much for watching once again. This is the club December 2019 practice and enjoy. Yes, thank you.

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