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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:22 pm
by cryptic
Maybe this

Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:05 pm
by AFL
Dynamixuk wrote:1234 2234 3234 4234
hell yeah. start on 1.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:32 pm
by thomas edison
AFL wrote:Dynamixuk wrote:1234 2234 3234 4234
hell yeah. start on 1.
ALWAYS start on one
i find myself to be able to play almost any kind of dance music now (well, able.. but at least at an average level). When i was using the snares with dubstep i couldnt even mix half my records properly after 2 months, then started using kicks and suddenly it clicked, and has been going better and better ever since
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:23 pm
by daft cunt
Dynamixuk wrote:1234 2234 3234 4234
Do you guys really count like that? Waste of time & attention imo.
Know your records and you'll know you're hearing the fucking 4234 bar and you should be dropping at next one...
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:43 pm
by FSTZ
Daft tnuc wrote:Dynamixuk wrote:1234 2234 3234 4234
Do you guys really count like that? Waste of time & attention imo.
Know your records and you'll know you're hearing the fucking 4234 bar and you should be dropping at next one...
srsly
just use the force
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:23 pm
by thomas
Thomas Edison wrote:AFL wrote:Dynamixuk wrote:1234 2234 3234 4234
hell yeah. start on 1.
ALWAYS start on one
That just confused me completely. If i have to count a couple bars or what ever, i just count 1234, 1234, 1234,1234, release cued tune.
Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:18 am
by dubsteppa
once u drop u just cant stop
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:09 am
by caunterstrike
you just gotta know your records
Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:51 pm
by keng~
greatest Dj is:
1) greatest selekta (selection as a first point!)
2) U Must know all your Tracks / Cds / tunes, but when you've knew this, clean up your memory and mix randomly, this is a good exercise
3) beatmatch on the 1 and do it at the start of a new musical phrase
4) Xperimenting mixing different styles of music. for eg. now I can mix dubstep with jazz (in my last gig I've mixed up Janis Joplin - Mercedez Benz with digital mystikz - ancient memories together and after, billie holiday - my man with burial - untrue together.... I mix up with traktor 3.3 and turntables but never use sync), d'n'b and jazz, psytrance and dubstep, ambient dub (chillout) and IDM etc... I'm in Djing since 2000 and in music since 1987, but is only since 2 years that I've constant booking.
5) Prelistening tracks before buying it because I think that no one have money for buying tracks that not likes, I use beatport and bleep.com for prelistening and buying.
6) last but not Last, have fun, I think that if U love 2 tracks U can mix these together, sometime I've heard that some "disco" Djs didn't listen to music that they mix in face of the crowd abitually, well I think to this ppl like "shit people", I never will mix britney spear - toxic because I do not like it and never will think to take a listening to it.
imho, naturally.

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:22 am
by casino
I think everyones pretty much covered all the basics, so I really don't have any advise that wasn't covered in a past post. Have fun with your practicing, thats most important IMO. Have a few friends over, spin some. (trust me if your friends are into the same music, they'll let you know when you've fucked a mix.) After a while it practically becomes natural.
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:54 pm
by renegatus
Check out the selectas at events, see what their doing and how that works in relation to what you're hearing. Then take it all home and practice that way. I'm just starting out and find random beatmatching/mixing exercises work quite well, and also thinking about techniques I can use to spice mixes up, such as sampling sections of the record, maybe punching them in to create a new sound before I push the volume to 100. It really does take time and money coupled with plenty of effort but at the end of the day, it's a true skill that requires dedication and respect.
Practice and play!