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Lesson Intermediate Stage 4: Mixing & Transitions November 2008

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0:00 Quick one because this is a separate video

Alright, quick one because this is a separate video. What's your name? Chris. Chris, where are you from, Chris? Gurney. What's your YouTube username? Chris2978. Okay, alright. And we've got some funky house going down here, haven't we? Oh yeah. With some good soulful vibe, which is what we want. Alright, you carry on. What we'll do is I'm going to talk you through what this guy's doing, okay? So you carry on. We've got an acapella on this one right here. Okay. I'm waiting for a break so I can put the vocal over it. Okay, you don't want to do vocal on vocal? Yep. What's the name of this track that's playing? Groove Bug. Groove Bug, nice. By Brian Jones. It's Groove Bug by Brian Jones. I'm going to get this, this is nice. One of my favorites. Oh yeah, I... I got this one, yeah. Is this quite old or new? What's that? Is this quite old? It's fairly new, a couple years I think. Cool.

1:24 What's basically going on here, the next track is an actual acapella

So what's basically going on here, the next track is an actual acapella. So the whole idea is get the acapella in, not over the vocals. I lost the acapella. You did? Okay. It's a hot track. It's a rookie right there. I thought I had it for a second. I didn't want it to blend out. It doesn't matter. The main thing there, it may have gone off beat slightly. But it was in time, it was in key, and the bass line from this really worked well when it faced it. It came in right a little bit. That was good, very good. I was afraid the vocal break hit on this one, I was going to let it go, but I was afraid it was going to get off, it was going to move. So what he's doing now is just finding the actual next track. So is it an MP3 CD? This is an MP3 CD, so this one is not. Okay, so again with the MP3 CD you can actually see...

4:05 The name of the track's coming up

The name of the track's coming up. Like, you suggest you come up over the song and then lay into it, ride into the beat. So I'm at 135, I'm 126, I need to get down to 126. Hopefully I've got a right key that I'm in. Yeah. The beatmatching is off a little bit. It's a very, very good mix because it's well constructed. So that's what a lot of people have got to understand, even if it's going a little bit off beat. If you can get tracks that work really well together and get the construction of the mix spot on, it doesn't matter so much about the actual beatmixing because the continuity of the music will take over. That's it, it'll take over, yeah, totally. That's good. Alright, nice one. Thank you very much.

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