What's up? This is DJ Colione with expertvillage.com and in this clip I am going to show you the
fundamentals of beat matching. Now first beat matching is the hardest thing you guys are
going to have to learn how to do when you are learning how to DJ. It basically takes
the training of your ears to try to understand what is going on when you are hearing to records
at once. You just really have to practice and practice, really try to train your ears
to understand the different sounds that you are hearing and where they are coming from.
It is tricky but with practice you will get the hand of it. So I am going to show you
kind of the basics so you understand what is going to go on and what you are going to
try to do when you beat match. So essentially what beat matching is just matching up the
tempos of two different songs. So if you listen to two songs of course they are going to be
all over the place. You got kicks and snares in one place and high hats in another; you
know they are totally different. So what you are going to use is use pitch control on your
turn table so this is going to either speed it up real fast or slow it down nice and good
for you. So with this tool, your pitch control is going to help you adjust almost exactly
to the other songs you are listening to. Now the technique you are going to want to use
is you want to play the song that you are going to mix into and you are going to cue
up the song that you are listening to in your headphones. What you want to do is the easiest
way is to pull the first sound of the record so the down beat the one. You want to get
that on whatever record you are going to go into and you are going to play the record
that you are going to mix. What you want to do essentially is you want to start this record
on the 1 on a 1 on this record and then listen to see how it turns out. You could be dead
on, you might need to do some adjusting. Right. So we listen to this record and we have the
one right here, we are going to start this right on the 1 right. You go 5, 6, 7, 8, 1.
Sounds good for a sec but now it falls off. So now who knows what is going on. Right.
So essentially what the training is going to do for you and the practice you are going
to be able to hear which song is ahead of the other ones. Right. So after a while you
are going to notice that this Jay Z song is like a little bit ahead of this song here.
What you want to do when you realize that is you want to tap the record either on the
top or the bottom to kind of slow it down simultaneously while moving the pitch lower
to match it up to this song. So basically we are going to try right, is it going to
play? If you are going to listen to this song and drop it on the 1. Right. So 5, 6, 7, 8.
So its a little ahead. Now it's on, right? It's good for a second, got to slow it down
a little more. So as I'm slowing it down with my finger, I am sort of touching the pilot
here just to slow down the record for a bit and I am moving the pitch down just a little
bit. You basically have to fine tune yourself until you get it right on. That sounds okay.
Now from that what you want to do to mix into this song, you need to know how long this
intro is until the music starts or until the lyrics come in. Right. You don't want people
talking or people singing lyrics over each other. It is just confusing. You want to switch
the song right as the lyrics come in on the new song. I believe this is a two 8 count
intro so what we are going to do is just play this record, start this on the 1 and after
two 8 counts, we are going to switch it over to just to the Jay Z, right. So this is playing.
We have it on the 1 right 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 . One eight count 2,3,4 and there you go.
So what you got to do every time you mix a record, you have to beat match it and you
have to know how long the intro is.