Harmonic Mixing by Dubspot's DJ Endo - Pt. 1 'What Is Harmonic Mixing?'

Check out Endo's companion article to this video at the Dubspot Blog:
http://blog.dubspot.com/harmonic-mixing-w-dj-endo-part-1

Harmonic mixing is a technique which allows you to create dj mixes that sound great by matching the melodies and basslines of one song with the next. Using this technique enables you to make great sounding mashups, extended blends and branch out into areas like four deck mixing. In this video Native Instruments Traktor specialist DJ Endo breaks down his technique for harmonic mixing using Traktor, Mixed In Key and NI's FM8 synth to check his work. At the end of the piece he does a quick four deck mix to illustrate the ideas taught in the tutorial.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• harmonic mixing
• traktor
• how to dj
• mixed in key
• key matching
• chord matching
• beatmatching
• how to beatmatch
• harmonic mixing tutorial
• serato
• dj endo

[DeeJayEndo]

@turdlinger5000 dude don't be cheap. $50 for a program that will save you hundreds of hours and change your life as a DJ is a small price to pay. Buy the program.

[grobber13]

you can also play a good track instead of 4 shitty tracks at the same time

[neversaygoodnight]

@DeeJayEndo Could you please explain why when changing energy levels you go 2 semitones up and 3 semitones down? Why not 2 both up and down? Thanks.

[marceloneri]

I'm DJ and also a musician

Harmonic mixing is great indeed but...

For centuries musicians use the system like "E minor", "D Minor", etc. Now this software comes with this "camelot keys" like "1A", "10 B" etc just to confuse us. Too bad DJ's can't learn the professional musician system. I mean, if you have to learn, do learn by a pattern already established...

[TheGhettostylus]

will this software find the key of any kind of song?..... I'm more into the old sample hip hop than dj'ing it would be nice to know the key of the sample so i can say add my own bass and instruments over the top :)

[ElectrikBear]

@DeeJayEndo thanks for the response! great video btw

[TheSoundCenter]

@DeeJayEndo Okay, okay, that makes sense. My apologies.

[DeeJayEndo]

@ElectrikBear You can choose to write the key before the file name, and you can view this in Ableton. Just be careful about renaming files because you can possibly break file paths.

[DeeJayEndo]

@TheSoundCenter Who said we're not listening to our music? To be honest with the amount of music I buy on a regular basis, we don't have time anymore to test out each track with all of our other records because now we have thousands of tracks compared to hundreds (vinyl). This will help us find tracks FASTER that go well with whats playing. Doesn't mean we have to stick to the rules, but its a nice tool for programming your sets and sounds great on the dance floor.

[amanhoubi]

Thankss



[ElectrikBear]

how would i view the code if i am not on tracktor? would i be able view the key number in ableton?

[TheSoundCenter]

The way I see this software, it gives DJs another excuse to just not listen to their music. If the key is determined for you, and you know what keys will sound good when mixed together, then what's the point in listening to your music, right? Just keep the club going with a new track you just downloaded :l Sure, you can process all of your music in mass to quickly determine the key. But why not listen to your music? Figure out the root note, determine its major or minor tonality and there ya go.