Hey guys, today i was asked by my friends to make a mix for a school dance or showoff idk how to call it, well i’m stuck in transitioning between Skrillex - Bangarang to Chris Brown - Turn up the music, what techniques do people use to do this? it’s 110 BPM and 130 BPM and you know that it can be a mix, it must be like a cut from one to another but since it’s such a drastic change idk what to do, any opinions?
I’m doing it in ableton and i know my way around it..so you can go straight into the technical terms
Big BPM changes means a more abrupt transition. Use a non-drum sequence, crank up reverb and filter out the first track and let the other one start. Or millions of similar transition ideas.
The way I do it, is find a song with a build up, and as soon as the slower song is ending cut the low n it and begin raising the bpm while fading in/out both of the songs.
Loop a section of bangarang and keep making it faster until the bpm matches with the chris brown tune. Then drop the chris brown into the loop and slowly fade out skrillex.
I usually do really sick mashups in ableton, but i’m not used to this song cuts straight into other genres, I don’t even like Chris Brown or this top 40 style of music..
If the transition is done right, I feel it could work. I would do it as a build up. Get a small loop, bring up the tempo and the pitch to the desired speed, then leave the kick at that tempo and continue raising the pitch.
Yep, at a sweet 16 once. The girl asked for the weirdest selection of music, ranging from Top 40 to spanish music to dubstep. I practised the transition for a while before doing the gig, to make sure I had it down but this is basically what I did:
It was a spanish song into Party rock anthem (96 bpm to 128 bpm). The spanish song had the following phrase, and I looped the brackets, “Por que (paso paso)” Then I brought the tempo up and used the transpose stretch effect. At 128 I started using the armyofme sweep effect except I made the tail on the reverb tail longer, and then I froze it after building up. Party rock anthem started with the chords.
It worked well for me because they were familiar with both songs, so when the loop of the first song was going they were all singing along with it.
Question, after you built up the reverb and froze it, you just dropped party rock? Or you were beatmatching it along with the tempo raise on that reggueton?
Long time ago I did similar experiments raising BPM 20 steps or more between transitions with drum beats on both tracks, was not a pretty sigh. Learned a lesson or two from that.
However, if you use a freeze reverb (which I suggested early on) with no tempo around, filter, and kick the next thing in, that should be fine.
I just dropped it, because if you start playing the second song after you freeze the first track, the sweep has a delay on fx slot 3, and the phase of the delay will sync up with whatever song is playing, so it sounds much smoother. It’s a nice little thing built into Traktor. If you’d like I can do a little mix of it now to illustrate, but it’ll be a rough mix with the keyboard because I sold my S4
