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Tribe VR Lesson Four for the New DJ, Lets Beat Match and Fine out What Is Really Going On

Lesson Intermediate Stage 3: Beatmatching November 2018

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0:00 This is video number four for the Tribe team

Alright guys, this is video number four for the Tribe team. If you're interested in VR, virtual reality DJ lessons, then go and check out the website where you can get more info and have me in the near future teaching you side by side, even if you're halfway around the world. The concept is amazing and you know what? It works. It's a great feature. I recommend you go and check it out. Okay, video number four. We're going to talk about video number three and explain exactly what was going on. It's all well and good demonstrating and practicing, but if you don't understand the theory, if you don't understand exactly what's happening, then it's difficult to understand what you're doing. So this video is about showing you what is going on. So let's press play like video number three on both of the players. Don't forget the tune I'm using, Eddie Amador, Lord Here Our Prince.

0:55 I have two CDs, identical CDs except for the date

Okay, so what's going on? Alright, right in front of me I have... I have two CDs, identical CDs except for the date. They're on top of each other. So in other words, if you imagine a mirror, it's almost like a mirror image. If I turn that away, if I turn that like that, it's pretty much like a mirror image. Now, if let's say I move one CD away from the top one very slight, the bottom one now is slightly away from the top one. Imagine that's one beat and imagine the next beat is slightly away from the next one and the next one and so on and so on. So if I had a line of CDs... Each CD would have the same step as the last one again and again and again. Now, if let's say for example I move the jog wheel in the wrong direction to get them more off beat, what will happen is that step will increase with every single beat.

And the more I move it in that direction, the step will increase even more. On the other hand, if I want to get rid of that step, I move the jog wheel in the opposite direction. And sure enough, that step will... Decrease slowly but surely until they are exactly aligned. Let's do that demonstration again. Here we go.

2:49 Let me move this CD at the same time I'm moving the jog wheel

Okay, so let me move this CD at the same time I'm moving the jog wheel. Listen. Now they're going off beat. Now they're completely off beat. Okay, if I carried on moving the jog wheel in the same direction, they would be even more off beat. So how do we get it back? Jog wheel the opposite direction.

Now they're coming back in beat.

There we go. There's our mirror image. There's that phasing sound we're listening for. Hope that's a help. Video number four for try, practice and enjoy.

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