Tutorial Demonstration on Mixing Urban Soul Music for the Mobile DJ

0:00 Tune you're listening to at the moment is Conductor, track and title o

Right guys, tune you're listening to at the moment is Conductor, track and title only you. There will be information in the description on the tracks I'm using. This demonstration is all about just dropping the next tune in, so what I'm trying to do is make sure I am in phrase, also in key, but I'm not going to do these sort of long transitions, okay? So this one here, the next tune is a track and title on and on. Let's just pause that and let's have a listen. Okay, so first of all, what I'm listening to, I'm listening to the beginning of the track. How does it start? Does it start with a mellow sort of intro or maybe it starts with a punch, a real bang? Now this starts with quite a mellow intro, so what I'm going to do, I'm going to go to that little drop that you heard.

Now let's see how many bars we've got before we get that drop. One, one, two, three, two, one, two, three. There.

Okay, I'm going to start it there. Now, again, what I could have done because of today's technology, two bars, I could have formed a loop and I could have carried on playing that for the end of eternity. Maybe not because electricity would have run out and the gear would have died, but you see what I mean? So what I'm going to do now is start that track at the correct phrasing of the track that's playing. This one here, like I said, is a track and title on and on, and on the left-hand side we have the Joker remix of a track and title, Only You. So let's go back there.

2:01 It looks like the chorus, maybe after the chorus

Okay, it looks like the chorus, maybe after the chorus.

So simple! Bang! So simple. Okay, find something else. Wiley... Try this. Okay, now let's pause that again and do the same thing.

This is Nelly featuring Jackie's track entitled Freaky With You Explicit. Let's try something else. Hold on, let's have a listen. Go! This is KOD, J Cole. Explicit. Got Drake there, nice for what? Try this one here. DJ Q, Time To Shine. Okay, got it on the drop. Okay, spin this one forward a bit.

Okay, so we've got another verse starting there. So let's have a listen a little bit before then. I presume we had...

The chorus.

3:58 We'll play one more

Okay, there you go. What could be simpler?

Now have a listen. All right, completely different BPMs. Completely! But what I've tried to do is make sure that I'm dropping in time and also in phrase. Very important. Okay, we'll play one more.

Another try for Wiley. Okay, so we've got very, very fast tune here. Now what I've done is I have a Freaky With You remix, explicit. So I probably won't play much of this. Let me just set Hot Cue on where I've set it. But let's have a listen to the beginning of the track. Now if you think about it, come on, you're not Muppets. If you actually started that track at this point here... It sounds like an aeroplane taking off from a distance away.

But what I've done is I've cued it up. Got a Hot Cue for you here.

Okay, now what I wouldn't want to do is cue it up here maybe.

So... Because all right, it's not too bad. But you're sort of taking away a little bit of the lyrics. So...

There, so I paused it there.

Okay, I was going to have a bit of an echo there. But that... Just that tiny drop. Bang! Straight in. What we've done, we've formed a nice kind of flow with two tunes. Completely different BPMs. But at the same time, we're keeping that energy and that vibe. All right? I hope that's a help. If you want any more information on these tracks, check out the link in the description. Take you to citypool.com. And these are the Urban releases from May 20th. 2018. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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