DJ demo, going from 1 genre to another, how to do it.

[Paquitosito]

That's a simple way to do it. Also, if you have a sampler you can add a voice break between songs change the music style and keep the party going, it's not complicated either.

[DANCEgr06]

Thanks for the info ellaskins.  Mind sharing the song track title for the 1st song? Thanks!

[DJHardKeys]

I use the filter on my mixer to filter down then cut the cross fader to let the other track filter up it is also good for speed changes in my next mix I use a cascada track at 144 BPM and I need to move that to 180 I use the 16 beat filter I set the pitch to the right place whilst the other track was playing then I turned the pitch off to bring that track in then I filter when it has gone almost quiet. I turn my pitch on to 100% Sorted this mix will be up this weekend.

[XxMrNe0xX]

Thanks :)

[metroid557]

or if your the next dj in line you can plug in your mic and introduce yourself ?

[sijenkinson1]

haha

[rrutter81]

ill do a cut in like this if the first track is slower than the track being introduced. Otherwise ill speed up the breakdown of the main track intentionally and drop the 2nd track in.

You'll sacrifice the main track, but at least your in free and clear.

[YunisDj]

i usually matched BPM and increase/decrease at the same time... always works if you use one side vocal and the other intrumental...

[DJKENNYDIAZ]

the vinyl record was a little too fast . If it was a bit slower, it would have blended seemlessly.Practice and enjoy

[MackieK]

... OH its 2008!

[poodlelord]

What about going from dubstep to dubstep at different genres? ive found that the bpm varies wildly.

[xSonsofNerox]

@poodlelord dubstep to dubstep? 9 times out 10 all dubstep is 140 bpm.

[poodlelord]

@xSonsofNerox I have say, White satin by zeds dead, a 105 bpm song, going to say like pronails a song thats at 140 bpm. should i just cut it? or what?

[xSonsofNerox]

@poodlelord You could cut, or you could try other tricks like stops, beat roll builds, stuff like that. If you do cut, try to make it on a vocal break. You know how most dubstep songs have a short couple beat break right before the drop? Try lining up the songs and switch right at the break, so the new song's vocal is playing right before the drop. That's how I would do it.

[poodlelord]

@xSonsofNerox Yea that's usually what i do its a logical swapping point. But i personally feel like cut might work the best.

[Juss69Joshy]

wait for the vocal part and then play the bass from the other song with the vocals from the first song , slowly fade out the vocals or if the second song is close to a build up play the build up with the vocals from the first song and quickly fade it out and let the second songs beat drop

[joelh1981]

scratch in with a vocal part, then let it play. maybe several worm up scratches with the new genre and then let it play.

[streaker9]

both highest rated comments made me laugh ^

[MrDJFlick]

cant u do a brake or a backspin that would work

[yupi619]

@MrDJFlick i was thinking of that too

[eroport25]

looping a part on A and start the other B and let it fade out on A

[djgaspray]

1:25 made me laugh a lot ahahaha

[imydaking]

turn off the power to the turntable (has to be vinyl) let it stop then silence.. but count 1,2,3,4 in head and then drop the new genre in

[trance4life100]

backspin and drop might work too ...

[SiThompson1]

Well if the dj's playing hip pop and you want to play house you would just fade their track out and start your own from the start. I'd never dream of mixing my first track out of the previous dj's last one! Tis all about the intro to your set :)

[MilanCabeke]

I know another way

[mjmoto72]

love your vids bro haha funny ...

[DJTLicious]

changing frome house to hip hop/rnb you can scratch the song in. changing into house you could fine a part in the house track without beats so you can bring it in after the end of the rnb track by breaking.

[yourname240]

drop the bass of the first track and then chop the other in

[aaalexoid]

Well done Johnathan.....by the way nice hat dude :D

[thenameless191993]

I think it would sound better if you did a little scratch at 3:34 before slamming the other track in

[internetvideossuck]

So in a nutshell, just drop in? This could have been a 30 sec. video. Have any real tricks we can use?

[mrplowify]

yeah i actually agree with you here.

[SOSYETEDJSOCIETYDJ]

get the cdj on the vinyl mode and spin it clock wise or backward with echo or phrase then play the vinyl right after with half bass ;) try that

[horizont20001]

*5^^A=M=A=Z=İ=N=G^^5*really good mixing

[dazQuibell]

well it is a tut for beginners ffs give him a break

[djstyx1]

no offence john but you can mix breaks and house togther it called a breaks to straight mix it is hard for some folks to pull off but if your a good dj you should be able to do it

[x3nat0r]

@djstyx1 this is for rookies, its not a 10minmix by him, its just a bried little tut for new DJ's i'm sure he'd be able to do what u said, but the newbies wouldn't

[nojobber]

Captain obvious strikes again. You know you can mix house into breakbeat pretty easily,...

[rethalgamon]

Not to say that the creator of this video isn't knowledgeable and that his videos aren't informative, but a trained monkey with earphones knows that when you want to stop playing a song in a certain genre and start another YOU DO JUST THAT. I had thought originally, "That's easy, you just cut right to the next song"; but I decided to watch this video anyways, thinking it would be interesting and informative, about song melding techniques-- I can't believe I wasted the last 4:11 of my life.

[djdryon]

so you admit that 0:01 of the video was informative then?

[DJ9D9]

Echo Loop out or even create a bit of distortion, peak it and then ...right into the void with the next track. I mix different genres all the time. I think the hardest part is getting a song that follows your set or theme (if thats what your doing) I like to express myself with my music so I could go from eminem to black flag, depends on what I am trying to say at that part of me set.

[MrWishicoulddothat]

i would have slowed that breakbeat track gradually down to a complete stop, and maybe tryd to prolonge the last beat, before it stoppd fully and then join the other track in, but with the djm mixer and cdjs theres a 101 effects ya could have used that could mix in those two tracks and made it continuous and acceptable. jus my opinion and thoughts tho..lol

[numarkdj1]

oh god wot a pointless little vid. if you don't know how to do that, maybe you shoudln't even try mixing...

[HHSJohn]

You have to learn sometime, did you just know this the first time you tried mixing?

[numarkdj1]

okay i admit i got it wrong. i have checked out a load of this guys stuff. This was one of the first vids I checked out of his..

I admit he is knowledgeable and if your learning how to mix then this guy explains it well

[ohhhREALY]

not keen on that mix..i think speeding up an intro or quite part of a song is better.when it hits the bpm of the new genre bang in a mix and fade out old genre

[selectajay2000]

another great way of transitioning to another genre is to get the crowd hype. get on the mic & say somthing like..." any folk music fans in the house tonite?"..when the crowd screams out "HELL YEAA!" slam that shyt in & start rockin hard!! :) lol

[ekblompower]

Do you got any great soul/funk music that you can recommend to another dj? and maybe some house music too?

[mrronan777]

thats easy if its the same tempo !! thats the most uselss info ive ever heard. Think he needs another line --------- there u go "jonathon" now fuck off

[mkuso]

hey dude if its so easy for you why are you watching his videos??so fuck you off mr MORON uhm sorry mrronan :P.Thank you J again a great helpful video and dont listen to these mutherfuckers they are all just grudging you keep up the good work thanks for the video!:D

[scratchscientist]

first he says "fuck off" like a frustrated little pig and then he says "thank you" like a sweet little angel to mr jonathan..

man people like u are called lunatic skizo's!!

avoid..

[nycsk8er2000]

nah dude, he's just a heavy suporter of jonathan. but seriously, he's right. mrmoran or whatever's comment was unnecessary. It would of been more senseful if he left a video or a description of a better way of leading to a new genre.

[lampie85]

how much coke has this guy done

[chokeabitch3]

lol wang

[mattlatch]

TK filters are pretty useful. i go from breaks into trance... omg its hard work!!!

[latinng204]

how about using effects on the cdjs or the mixer like the echo in order to not quite chop the first genre but fade it more smoothly

[Legsoup]

i'd use breakdowns.

[NateNoS]

I use my effects to change genre's, like cut the bass off the finishing track and add some echo/flanger combination and drop in the beat on the new song. It never really sounds "great" but it sounds much better than just cutting to the next track IMO. Spinbacks work great too.

[mrzero6]

WANG! lol

[hfunction]

LOL oye...

[Vega88beats]

vocals help out alot in genre mixing situations, finding vocals from different songs that are in the same key and putting your mixer on fader start, and cutting from one track to the other has worked for me along with echo, and roll features.

there are plenty of easy ways, but easy most of the time means boring, so you gotta be creative

[s0rlie]

big tip for changing genre is using filter

[myztic123]

lol that sounded crappy :/

i'm doing that often too, but there must be better ways to change the genre.

for example fading into the break of the new track, that doesn't sound as hard as in your video.

or use an effect like backspin or break or something

[Blayros]

I have done a few with jingles made for the genres! soem very simpel even sometimes just my own voice with a tiny bit of background (noise/music) makes people aware of that something is going to happen and keeps them on the dancefloor! a spindown of the first genre have done it as well!

[TIMMMMY415]

hey, im a bigginer dj and i dont know if i should get cdj's or vinyls. it would be more convinient for me that i get cdj's because i can burn my own music cd's and that way i dont need to get records. but i wuz wondering if you can make a video on if theres a difference in original cd's or burned cd's playing on a cdj? i wanna see if theres a difference in sound and on scratching. you think you can make a quick video?

[tim9798]

+1 i want to know as well. btw my names tim lawl

[michaelpeyton]

CDJ's, unless you're only ever going to play house music, you can learn everything you need on cdjs and its alot easier to carry a case of 200 cds than crates of vinyl.

[xefipo]

When I really want to change the type of music, switching from 90 Bpm to 125 Bpm for ex., the most common types of transitions that I use, are:

1. Power down of the master song with the Vinyl function.

2. EQ-ing the master song: cut the LOW's, then cut the MID's, and then as I cut the HI's, I start the other track.

3. Using effects on the master song (most often the Delay 2/1 or 4/1 and Echo 3/4 with the Level/Depth starting from Min to Max)

But there are many more...Just find one that you like.

[Queefin]

definitely like the echo idea.

[marcoslavin]

Well i will try to play a hip hop for example that can be mixed with a electro music or house music :D or use efects to finish the last music and start the new genre slowly with not so mutch beats or vocals..

thanks!

[tmacc]

(5)*****

[Darran1974]

Hi J

If the second song has a faster tempo than the one you are bringing in I have done a wind down on the first song,just as the last crash noise the first song makes I bring int he second song except ive lowered the pitch control right down then gradualy bring up the tempo to its correct beat,so baiscaly its a wind down and wind up.

[davehikah]

What I do when I want to change genre is set off the fire alarm to evacuate the premises, when people return I'm playing another genre. Repeat each time u need to change genres. Works for me.

[fearpunk18]

JAJAJ.

THAT ONE IS GOOD.

[kejon1]

lol

[maverick33978]

@davehikah xaxaxaxaxaxaxax lol nice dude

[LyndonSoulGroove]

Hi J , one way is to Place a sample of the next

Genre i.e if the next track has a strong Vocal section which is well known bring in a few second of this vocal between the beats of the the one playing to tease the crowd

[albialbi28]

You could have taken a later que point where for instance the hihat is present.

An other idea is to wait while the first record is not building up anymore maybe wait till the outro starts. Then start the second record just where the first break starts. Then the difference in bpm isn't that noticeable. And in the end if the first record was the last one of the dj before you it's probably his best or at least a good record and it is not nice to end it somewhere in the middle.

[albialbi28]

It's a bad idea to stop a song when it's building. The first song was kind of in a break where the energy was getting higher and higher (it was a short break that's true). Give the listeners the reward by letting hear the climax. People expect that, at least they suspect the voice staying on for a bit. The second record started with just a beat and a base. While the bpm is much higher I don't think the energy is (it just doesn't sound as full as the first record)

[mikki12358]

you could do a backspin and then straight away start the other song. not sure if it would sound good with every genre but its worth a try i recon

[djmatoliski]

you can do some fadeouts using eq,filters etc;)

[sebowushu]

hmmm that what i call a hard mix, no style and its not soft like it shuld, Im a Denon DJ user and when changing geners I try to make it soft and easy, eholoop give this chance for me

[wurstbrot69]

well, in this particular case i didn't really like the way you did it (that made me notice that it's the first time ever i don't like the way you do something! =) ). i think this would surprise the crowd and they'd stop dancing. i'd rather do a low cut with a filter effect, move the cutoff frequency up and then do a spin back while turning down the cutoff frequency quickly. and, of course, then start the next tune ;)

[adonist7]

The 2nd track sounds sick!

[FunkyRob]

I just realized your equipment is on top of a pool table.

[theminority5]

thanks for this!

[DJAndre1]

nice ;) but it would be nice to get the voice a bit on the next track

;)

[ownedu101]

Im no DJ expert but i thought of mixing them together in a rhythmic beat the switching

[jpgrdnr]

Sometimes having a filler track that makes people go "huh?" works well too. Like funky house to Space Odyssey 2001 to epic trance. Or do a bit of basic production like taking film dialogue "Scarface" to lead into a hiphop set.

You can't always prepare for it, but having a few odd soundtrack records can help.

[dclxvi29a]

For transit on electronic genres:

track A to track B

fx unit with delay is set to tempo of track B and played at the end of track B and carry of the delay as you cross in B. You ride the feedback down and this works if track B has drum intro ... you can see why

[ppf01]

killer toon

[Nyiddle]

BREAKBEAT TO HOUSE. ;_;

[buggzthedj]

ive seen it referred to as chopp mixing in hip hop. i like to do a echo fade out of song A then a lil scratch inro from song B. dont always have alot of long intros in hip hop.

[noijja]

thanks j

[smashstudio]

nice explanasion j

Gud vid

[getntheredj]

Yea i have this issue all the time because i play electro house, funky house then trance lol. All the old time classics just dont go. still its the basis of what to do.

[dragbikegsxr]

If I'm going to a faster song I'll use the spin( slide) up ,to a slower the spin(slide) down on the song going out. You can also baby scratch the the intro beat of song 2 on the song 1 BPM about 4 beats and then cut song 1 as you let song 2 play.

[groovindj]

Like skinning a cat, there are many ways!

Mashups can be useful as bridge tunes, because they usually combine two or more styles.

[Dufendekk]

this is just what i needed! ty