Newbie help on preparing songs for most of my tracks!!
Hi i am a noob bedroom dj, i would like to know how to prepare my songs for the next track and also i wanted to use it in a shuffle tracks, i know how to count beats and i understand basic in mixing but i want to play my song in random. I can only play my tracks because i made a playlist. I want to play my songs in random. Sorry for my english
a) Get to know your tracks - this comes with time, and you also end up understand the structure of songs so you can learn how to mix in and out of them quicker
b) Practice …
That’s all there is to it…
This is not DJing. However iTunes is good for shuffle.
more suggestions please…
Instead of building a playlist, free practice, you can drop what ever tune you want next, if something catches your ear and makes you think hmm… I bet this will go great with that, then play it. Pick a song and drop it, maybe look thru a bpm search to find things that are at least the same tempo to pull from and choose the next song by your intuition.
My free practices more and more often these days are attempts at genre mixing of different tempos. Most of the time it works poorly, sometimes it works great. I don’t beat myself up over flubbing in practice and often rewind to try again.
Tnx to all, i am using traktor 2. What if i noted if it is 8 counts or four in my starting track on my ques, for me to easily view where to play my next track. Hehe
Figure out where you want to mix it with out worrying about the count as long as you start on a 1?
You mean its much better to do free practice on counting for the next track rather than putting noted ques on the tracks.
I’m fond of listening to something in the music building and releasing more than counting it out. I counted it out for a bit, and sometimes still do, but there is almost always a line in the music to follow back to one. I put cue markers on tracks, especially when it is hard to tell when you are 16 or 32 beats from the end. The more you practice the less you will need this.
I listen to the songs I play on my iPod. This helps me get to know the songs really well, and also means I enjoy them. I don’t listen to songs I don’t like, and hence I don’t play songs I don’t like.
So this means that you must master your tracks and type of your music that you will play and let your imagination takes place. Just practice your piece. Thanx for the help. I will try to play my tracks at random for me to know which is better or not. Tnx guy. You can also Post more suggestion for improvements for noobs like me.
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Same, as soon as i get new tracks, i just listen to them as much as i can (home, in the car, etc.) until i know every bar of them. Then mixing them is really easier, you know what’s comming.
^Agreed. Definitely know your music inside and out. Also organize it AS YOU GET IT. It’s SOOOO much easier to work on this a little at a time, as it comes in, rather than doing what I’m doing now, and going through your ENTIRE collection at once. Ean posted a video a while ago that’s great for getting the process going. Here is is.
Good Luck!
Listen to your tracks and plot your cue points and loops. This way you kind of know where you’d like to start when you are “randomly” selecting tracks.
All of this is really some great advice, i began by just playing tracks at random by genre to be honest. I would have them categorized by dubstep, electro, mash, hip/hop rap. This weekend I am planning on DJing a halloween party. I have just created a set list that consists of 122 songs, which ends up being 9.4 hours of music! I have yet to practice this mix of music yet, but I will before the party to get a better feel of the mix. My question is that too much music to really choose from? I do too have about 3-5 songs I have planned out ready to start with, but none to end with. I am planning on playing a mix of dubstep, heavy electro, and hip/rap. I also have a pretty awesome halloween mix I grabbed with popular halloween songs (ghostbusters,saw, michael myers, etc that have an awesome dubtep or heavy electro mix to them) Is there a certain method from mixing genre to genre? I personally do not like to start out the night with heavy banging dubstep tracks, but i do like to throw some in early especially hte halloween ones. I know I will not use every track obviously, I most likely will take some out to trim the fat on the tracks.
What are the thoughts on mixing genres such as dubstep, electro, hip/hop rap, are there a certain order throughout the night to play them? (rap,electro,dub? electro,rap,dub?)
thanks
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