All right folks, John Duane is probably going to give you that on the beat matching is the one thing greatly that an actual mixing DJ has to really know. At end of the day, if you want to mix two tunes together, if you want to make the beats together, you have to get it in beat match, right. Now, before we go into that, a lot of people have asked me about actual records with samples on or breaks, that kind of things. I mean, a lot of people are looking for the fresh sign (music playing), this is where he fresh. And the point and the whistle. Now, I have not mentioned this before but you can get these guides, beats, breaks, and scratches, that is a catching of this. This is quite an old unit, this is quite an old thing, but I am sure they still make them, and also something like that. Now, this is what you need to look for this sort of thing okay? Now, only you have beats and also you have scratches on the sound like I said the whistle. But, what you will have most importantly is you will have just beats. Now, you have sounds like this check this out. Here we go. (Music playing) If you listen to that, this pitch means no melody, no base line it is just a beat.
Now, what we will do is to listen to the other one. Check it out (Music playing) right, a lot slower. Now then, all these particular records what we have got, we got the BPM which is beats per minute. Now theoretically, if this guy here track one excess a hundred and twenty beats per minute. A 120 beats in every single minute, what that means is that you should have or should I say, when the actual pitch control is that center in other words, if the records are going 33 RPM—it will be at 33 RPM like 20, 45 to be precise. Then it basically means that at that point this right cord will be running at a 120 beats per minute. In other words, in every single minute you will hear a 120 beats.
Over this side here, we have not got that. We have not got anything, we just got this. I mean it is just basically the actual track okay? Now, let us say for example, this was a 120 BPM, that one over there was a 130 BPM. Now straight way, you will know you are going to have to slow this one down and you are going to have to speed this one up. Now, you can do a lot of things here. One is you could just basically speed this one up as far as it can go leave that one where it is. Or, you could slow that one as far as you want to and then, you can leave that one as it is okay? So of course, they would directly catch up. Another way of doing it is through speed this one up slightly, and slow that one down, so in other words, 120, 130. We are going to go maybe 125 and then 125. What I am going to do now is I am going to mix this two together. The reason I think it is a good idea to mix this kind of record is simply because, there is not very much going on. All we need to concentrate on initially are the beats. In other words a lot of people saying it all, “How can I practice beat mixing? What are the best tracks to use? What are the best records to use?” In essence, the best tracks, the best records are the records with just beats. When I say very easy, it is a lot easier as supposed to. Listen to a track with melody based on this.
A good solid music to practice with is of course techno, because it is very minimalistic. It is some slightly faster, but it is slightly more difficult to match those beats, not much else going on. So, what we will do now I am going to half them, speed this one up, and I am going to have to slow this one down. Okay, because this particular track is a lot faster than that one just off camera. So, what I will do, I will put them in the minute position and we can have a listen and you will get a general idea on the actual speed of the tracks, on the basis that both of pitch controls are dead centers. So listen to this one first, here we go.
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