Beatmatching Tutorial (rough take)

Take 1 of my first DJing tutorial video. Totally off the cuff and shot on my Atrix.

This is a rapid tutorial about how to beatmatch - no SYNC button, no gridding, just using your ears. You should know how to do this not for purely philosophical reasons but because your ears are the best tools in your repertoire and you should know how to use them. (Also, you will at some point have to use someone else's gear and it won't have a SYNC button.) On that note, close your laptop and ignore all BPM counters on your gear. They are probably wrong anyway. :D

1. Set a simple "4 on the floor" loop on each deck. (Trance and House are perfect for this.) If you are using turntables or can't loop, just get a 10 minute trance track with a long intro/outro that has nothing but drums. Keep it simple! No DnB, no Dubstep, no Breaks.

2. Play both decks at the same time. Cringe.

3. Leave one deck alone. Speed up or slow down the other deck's track using pitch bend (push the record or twist backward on the spindle if using a turntable). Do this in a random direction til it sounds right. If it never really sounds right going one direction, go the other direction. Eventually you will be able to keep the tracks in sync by constantly pushing/pulling the track forward/backward.

4. If you keep pushing/bending the track forward, move the pitch slider up. If you have to keep slowing the track down, move the pitch slider down to a slower setting.

5. Keep pitch bending the track as needed. Take note of whether you're mostly bending it to be faster or slower. Adjust the pitch slider accordingly until you barely have to pitch bend.

6. Do the Tiesto pose! You can now play two tracks at the same speed. :D

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[kronos123ful]

nice stuff man, can you hook up the ndx400 to your laptop and hook it up to a software like serato/virtual dj/traktor etc