The Most Important Video on DJ Mixing Ever or Your Money Back!

0:00 Your transitions in new light

This is undisputedly the best video for DJs on the internet, even though I say it myself, because I'm going to give you a home truth here now that I don't think anyone else has ever explained on the web. And once you've watched this video, hopefully you will look at your transitions in new light and it will help you. This video will help you 110%, I guarantee it. Okay, we have a controller and we have a track on the right hand side and we have a track on the left hand side. We're going to form a mix, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 bars, whatever. Now, most of you, and give me a thumbs up please if you agree with this video or a thumbs down if you disagree that this is potentially the most important video online for a DJ in the world.

Seriously. If you do give a thumbs down. Fine, fair enough, but I would say a lot of people thumbs down because you're just trolling me. I don't care, it's a free world, do what you like. So, you're playing track 1 and you bring in track number 2. Now get that out of your mind. Forget that, after this video, never ever think ever again you're bringing track number 2 into track number 1. That is wrong. Zip, wrong, wrong. Because you're bringing track 1 into track number 3.

1:27 You are forming a mix from track 1 to track 3

So, you are forming a mix from track 1 to track 3. Now, you may be scratching your head right now but what I'm about to say will open your eyes to how a real mix works. What a real mix is. You're playing track 1, you are forming a mix, a transition of two tracks, which is track number 2 and you're then leading that transition of the two tracks into track number 3. So... So, treat this controller here as track 1, the left hand deck. Your mixer is the mix of your new song, track number 2 and over here you're bringing in track number 3. So, this is the eureka moment. What you have to remember is if the transition of those two songs, track 1 and track 3 do not match up in track 2. Then it's going to sound bad.

2:27 My hands and my arms

The only way of getting around it very slightly is if you chop. Track 1 is 1, 2, 3, 4 and then 1, 2, 3, 4 with the next one. So, it's a chop. There is no actual meld gel overlapping of the two songs. You see? So, look at my hands and my arms. This is the exact analogy of a mix. My arm, my left hand arm is track 1. My hands overlapping each other are track 2. And my arm on the right hand side is track number 3. Get that into your mind, understand it and then you will understand about a flowing mix. Because that track in the middle, track 2 if it does not compliment track 1 or track 3 It's going to make track 3 and track 1 sound crap. Get it? Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy.

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