How do you remember how many bars the intro or outro of a song has?
My question is pretty much summed up in the title but what’s the best way to remember how long the intro or outro of a song is? Maybe the “comment” section in the ID3 tag? Or do you just put the track on another deck and manually count it every time you play a song?
Comments, memory if it’s one of your go to tracks.
Most tracks have a pretty set intro/outro length based on the style your playing. Just have to get a feel for it, nothing more that that.
I’ve tried to “just get a feel for it” but the tracks I play vary pretty widely.
Like I said, each genre is different. Not much more I can say than that. Just have to practice some more until you get it. Or look at the bloody waveform
But with that being said, if you’re trying to mix from pop, to house, dubstep and back to pop then of course some things are’t going to lineup.
Yeah I tend to vary the genres I play pretty widely. Thanks for the help.
Another way to get a hang of it is to set cues at the points of interest and use the beat counter to check at which point you want to mix in, beyond that memory or comments.
If you’re using traktor, move your mouse on top of the waveform and it will tell you the ammount of bars. If you’re using CDJ’s well..I have no idea, never laid hands on them.
I am using Traktor, and I knew about that feature but I never thought to use it like that. I feel stupid 
Thanks.
I don’t remember. I set cue points if it is critical. If I am working on the fly…I will listen & count before mixing in the new track.
My Cuepoints are usually marked up as “Beat 32” or “Intro 16” which gives you the beats until the next cuepoint. Or yeah, listen to the intro before mixing it in.
I’m honestly surprised to hear that a lot of people do this.
I can almost always tell how many bars there are just by looking at the length of the track compared to the into/outro section.
If that fails, the beatjump +/- 8 beats works wonders!
You could also use the “beats to cue” option in the decks layout. Quite simply tells you how many beats until your next cue point so if you st a cue at the end of the intro you are sorted!
You could just get to know your tracks and know when things happen in that track?
things like this become a lot easier when you take away the visual element
Agreed. Sometimes staring at the waveform is a huge hinderance, cause its so hard to predict the song change visually. You need to know you tracks, and it not learn how tracks build and break, you will get that “feel” more naturally on songs. You can’t be perfect but you damn well can practice and listen to your tracks to get really good at learning anticipation.
Same here - I know my records, and don’t need to use cue points …
Start listening with your ears and not your eyes