But first, Jonathan here and now, here is it an email from someone asking me, how do you make old school sold funk and disco, right okay. There is few ways in doing it but first of all a very important. Modern day music, we have drum machines, you know what drum machine do, it will make sure that the song is in time. In perfect time, all the way through, in order words, if the songs stops at 120 beats per minute, that is a 120 bam, bam, bam in every single minute, starts like that or finish like that with most modern day music that is how it is. But if we go back to old school song, even modern day song, what I am talking about modern day song, I want us to has gospel singers, soul singers where there is a real band in other words, that is real drama. Not a drum machine.
Now of course, if we go back to the late 60s, early 70s, 70s streak, now always use the 70s, just like the 80s, caught often the folk bands would have a real drummer. Even the drummer may start, let us say 120 BPM and the song will almost be and it always been a 120 BPM all the way through. It is a very good chance the actual drummer will speed up and slow down during the course of the track.
So, for example, starts a 120 BPM maybe go down to say 117 BPM, slightly up to the 321. So the actual speed is fluctuating, now of course, the trouble is from person whose beat mixing that is very difficult because when you actually beat mix, let us say a Techno or Trance tunes when that pitch control is set and the beats are matched. You know theoretically, if they match correctly from the beginning of the mix. They should stay beat match all the way through the mix.
The likes of Funk, Soul, and also Old School Disco, that is not the case because of course, you have drummer and the drummer cannot keep perfect, perfect time. Yes strum is a very good in keeping time. I do the drums but they are not as good as a machine, okay. Maybe some drummers are but it is highly unlikely, they could not keep exactly at a 120 BPM continually, for 10 minutes. So, of course how do we this? How do we mixed Funk, Soul, Old School Disco.
There is a few ways: the first way, is to use ears, listen to the tone, the key, and the field unmatched the tone, the key, and the field and then, at certain points, you go bang, and you go from one strike straight through the other. Now that, the emphasis is not on keeping the beats match and it is on keeping the timing correct, though, it is one track is a 110 BPM. The other track does not have to be 110 BPM. Learn the track they could say 102 BPM, 103, 104, 115 because what is happening, because the music the continuities in the music, it does not matter so much about the beat being time.
Now also with the likes of Disco music. Another way of doing it, is this is. Let us say you have two disco tracks and you know they would perfectly well in that segment. All the thing to do is to practice mixing that particular segment. The reason being very importantly, if you match two modern day hot tracks, you know, that hot one track is a 120 BPM probably will be all the way through and the other one is a 120 BPM, it will be all the way through but Old School Disco tracks maybe for the start of the track could be 180 but that is specific point where you are going to mix it in. It could be 120, so you have to bear that in mind.
So, cannot stop beat matching right on the beginning of the track and think here, I got it in beat because that particular point where you want to stop mixing your next track in and you have got it set prior to that, you will find, it will actually beat off beat. When you are doing with set and you are mixing Old School Disco, it is advisable to make note of the positions of the pitch at that specific point in that specific track. That is very important, alright. So, what I am going to do now, I am going to pause the camera. I am going to show you to ways of how to actually we are going to do a bit of Funk, okay. So bare with me.
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