Still you’re not beat matching the proper way.
Sorry but for me, if you can’t beat match by ear, then DJing isn’t for you. Because you just rely on the visuals (BPM) to match whatever you want to. Beat matching by ear isn’t hard at all once you learn it properly.
Many people say that beat matching isn’t the only thing in DJing. It’s true. But it is the very essential skill in DJing. It’s the very basic and first step to learning how to mix. Now if you’re too lazy to learn that, then call it quits.
Crowd reading, good track selection, being creative, EQing, using effects, scratching, etc, all these are best performed with proper beat matching by EAR.
Not entirely sure I agree with you but I do think it’s good to start by learning to beat match since it really forces you to listen to your tunes and helps you develop the ear for a good mix.
I also think you should steer clear of effects for quite a while as they can distract you from more important basics such as EQing, etc.
it won’t solve my “problem” hip hop is not like electronic music, most of tracks (I say “most of”) are structured like Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom while one hip hop track could be like Boom-Clap-Clap-Boom and another like *Clap-Boom-Clap-0" track selection got to be smarter.
@MrPopinjay : I often use EQ to make a transition, but not properly because Track A has “more bass” than track B.
@Nicadraus : I get what you mean, like “I wanna learn butterfly stroke but I don’t know how to breathe when I swim”
not double, kicks are all the same with one, while other has a strong Kick to start the bar.
The transition is good.
Listen to my mix (it’s long)
https://soundcloud.com/lordmagnum/pa-calentar-la-noche-latino
The incoming song has your typical 8 bar intro, except there’s singing and talking going on. It’s prevalent in hip-hop, and that could lead to vocals clashing vocals if you were to try mix it in.
#1 I’d simply just press pause/stop on the CDJ (make sure your brake setting mimics how a turntable stops) on the outgoing song and drop the incoming song in. If you could scratch it in, that’ll be better.
#2 Another method is to echo out the outgoing and just like again play the incoming from the start.
3 If you could scratch that last 1/2 beat part of the incoming song (around :19), then drop it on the last 1/2 beat of the chorus of the outgoing song.
#4 Lastly get an instrumental and make your own 8 bar intro and have the song start on :20 when the beat drops
There’s a lot more flexibility when spinning non-EDM music.
What? I said the BPM is almost double, If I remember right it was like 195 and 95 or something.
then why did you post two hip hop songs and ask how to mix them?
BYE
beat structure of a reggaeton song is closer to Electronic music than hip-hop.
I’ve already created some intros, your trick is good but always cutting is boring, you can mix with two vocals, using EQs, even if we still hear a bit of vocal of the incoming track it’s not as ugly as letting two songs play.
Huh?
This thread makes no sense anymore…