Whip-Matching Tutorial For beginners
// July 29th, 2010 // No Comments » // Music
What’s Beat-matching?
It’s the art of mixing two musical compositions together seamlessly by speeding up or slowing down one of the songs to align their rhythms.
A good DJ knows a way to beat-match, and I’m going to share with you seven steps to getting started.
Step 1 : You need to have a way to hear one track in the headphones while another track is playing on the key sound system.
Step 2 : Play a track though the sound system.
Step 3 : Find another track in your headphones you want to beat-match with the one playing. ( This is done on a DJ mixer by turning on the Cue for the track you need to listen to. )
Step 4 : Find the 1st beat of the track you are going to mix in, and hold it right there. If you are using turntables or CDJs you can just grab on to the pinnacle of the record or CDJ to basically pause the track where the beat begins.
Step 5 : Hear the beat playing thru the primary speakers. Wait for it to get to the first beat of a cycle. ( Music in 4 / 4 timing usually is all built around cycles of four and 8 counts. Ie. 4 beats in a bar, and 4 bars segments which lead to builds and changes in the music. ) When you’re feeling the music hit on the first beat with a crash or whatever, that’s right when you want to play the beat you are mixing in. ( in your headphones only )
Step 6 : Right after releasing your hold on the record or CDJ, you have to listen closely in your headphones with one ear to detect whether the beat you are mixing in is going slower or quicker than the one already playing. If it’s actually going slower then adjust the pitch slider, and maybe even give it a little push to help it catch up to record A quicker. If it’s going faster than record A then turn down the pitch slider on the turntable or CDJ accordingly to make it the same speed. You can even wish to touch the side of the turntable plate or CDJ to slow it down faster.
Step 7 : Once you have the beats aligned completely ( or close to anyway ),move the cross fader on the DJ mixer to the center with the bass cut on the beat you are mixing in. ( you do not want the basses of both tracks going at the same time ) Then when it feels like the right moment switch the basses either slowly or fast and the switch over to the subsequent track on the 1st beat of first cycle.
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