Track Selection Tutorial with Deep House CD Pool Global December 2017

0:00 Let's imagine first of all

Alright, quite a bit going to happen in this video. What I've got is I've got a selection of tunes, there's six of them in total. They are your kind of soulful garage house style and I'm going to try and formulate some kind of mix where the mix sort of builds up from very, very deep to then kind of this happy sort of vibe. Now let's imagine first of all... You've got, I don't know, 10, 20, however many tracks. They're all the same genre. Now you could of course mix track 2 into 1, 3 into 2, 4 into 3, 5 into 4 and so on, of course based on them being harmonically matched. So let's imagine that you have 10 tracks and they are all harmonically matched. And your computer shows you from 1 a list through to 10 and then you decide, as I said, to mix 2 into 1, 3 into 2 and so on. Now that mix may be harmonically sounding but will those tracks be compatible?

2:00 Deck saver, saver deck, entitled tell

With each other. So, for example, 10 tracks will 7 work with 6? Will 8 work with 7? And will 9 work with 8? Maybe not. Maybe 9 will work with 1 and then 10 will work with 6 or 4 may work with 5. Now that's what I've done here. I've got six tracks. And instead of playing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, I am playing track 1, then 6, then 4, then 2, then 3, then 5. Now also very quickly as well, I'm using the Pioneer DJ-X DJ700s and on the odd occasion you may have seen them up the corner there, the corner of the camera. And a lot of people have been saying, well why do you stack them on top of each other? Well guess what? This here is from a company called Deck Saver and it is a deck saver. It's plastic, it's very, very light, very hard and once your deck saver is on your deck not only will it stop getting dust and rubbish in there but it means you can stack them so I'm not an idiot just stacking kit willy-nilly. I've always got something that I can put

On kit, because at the end of the day when you're expending a lot of money, the last thing you want to do is leave it out there in the open. Even if your items are there for like, I don't know, half a day, you don't really want dust and rubbish in there. Now, the tunes I'm using as well are from Global 2017 CD Pool December, and we're going to kick off with Archie B, a track entitled Tell Me. There will be a link in the description. To the CDpool website. Now I'm not going to be playing all the tunes, I'm not going to be doing like a really long sort of half an hour mix. What I'm going to do is play a little bit of track one and then find track six, play a little bit of that to you and then do a mix and continue that all the way through the track. So here we go, this is track one. So this one here, the track entitled Tell Me, is very soulful and very deep, okay?

You know, it's got that uplifting feel, but at the same time, it's deep. Okay, so I'm now going to go to track number six on the opposite side. This is Soul Power, Shine. Okay, you know what I'm going to do here? Thinking about it. Spin it back. Spin this forward a bit. Okay, track number six. Now, this is not track number six on... The actual CDPool website. What I've done, I've taken a whole bunch of the tracks from the Global December 2017 and I'm using these tracks in my own kind of little mix. Okay, I need now to go to track number four. Virus, a track entitled Runaway. Okay, let that carry on playing. So right at the beginning of this track we've got, you know, your run-of-the-mill kind of 4-4 to the floor beat but then a little bit the way through we have a bit of piano.

5:27 Of course we need the right place on the other track

I'm gonna pause it there, okay. So that's where I am going to start to mix it in. Bring it back a bit. Off a little bit. There, right. So of course we need the right place on the other track. There's a loop there. By forming a loop, what that does, it lets me start to bring the track in and mix it in even before I want to bring the track in. Okay so... Because we've got a bit of vocals and there's melody going on here, I don't want to overlap too much so I'll probably wait until the end of this track. Let's have a listen. Oh, it's finished. Go back. So I then decided for to go to track number two. This is Deadly Habits with a Z, a track entitled Shake It Up. It's the original mix. Alright, pause that. Let's have a listen to Shake It Up. Now can you feel now?

7:53 It's those keyboards that give it that sort of, more of an uplift

Even though it's still deep, this one, there's just that little bit more of an uplift to it. It's those keyboards that give it that sort of, more of an uplift. Right, I'm going to bring it in when that keyboard starts again. Now also, what I'm trying to do here, again, you know, this is a very quick demonstration. What I'm doing as well is I'm not just starting every single mix at the beginning and waiting until the end. I'm finding parts inside the tracks. This is... Hopefully what will make your transitions and your mixes so much better, instead of beginning and end, beginning and end, have a listen to the middle of the track. Have a listen say two phrases in. A couple of phrases before the track finishes. There are so many different places where you can bring

8:56 The next track in, not just at the end of the last song

The next track in, not just at the end of the last song. So... Faster as well. So of course what I would be doing is during the duration of the mix, slowly speed it up. That's where I'm going to bring it in. Just after those vocals. Let's go back a little bit. Missed the cue point, sorry. Bit too early. Let's sweep in there. Okay, track two. Now my next mix is going to be track number three. So... Okay, pause that. Let's have a listen to track number three. You see we're getting a bit more deeper now. There's a bit more sort of, not life, but body. It's almost like we're getting into that kind of techy house sort of feel. Oh, there you go. That'll do, love it. Right, okay, so back to track number two.

12:46 Let's just pause that again and let's have a quick listen to track fiv

Which was the Shake It Up tune. There's the beginning of a new phrase, let's start from there, let's see what happens again. This is an experiment that proves by, I don't know if you can see there, but the wave format at that point in the track is only just starting to highlight, which means that's the first time I've played it. We've got track number three here now, which is Don't Stop, the original mix. And my last track out of this mix is track number five. Which is a track entitled Organic, it's the original mix. Now again, this is what I like about the compilations, is you can have a good kind of set using just the two CDs or alternatively the downloads as well. Right, let's just pause that again and let's have a quick listen to track five. Okay, we've got that nice sort of piano sound, that uplifting sound, so this could almost really be

14:37 I've got to make sure it's in time first

The kind of tune at the end of the mix, I can picture this being played, end of a set, end of the night, a nice happy vibe, people are like, you know, smiling. You know, the melody has got a smiley kind of vibe to it. This is what we're listening for. Now that could be the best place. Let's have a listen, go back. Okay, just skipping through the track now. Yeah, you know what, maybe bring it in towards the end. Oh, my phrasing there was one minute seven seconds left and then we're going to snap this one in. So I've got to make sure it's in time first. I'm just going to go back a little bit. Sweet. Crack up. Okay, so finishing off, like I said, with a track entitled Organic. Now all of these tunes can be found on the Global Releases December 2017 CD4. I hope this has been a help by the way. A very, very quick demonstration on like...

Constructing a mix, using a whole bunch of tunes that work well together, but trying to choose the tracks correctly. Which one goes with which? Not just chuck them all in and hope for the best. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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