The Art of DJing: CCL - Polyrhythmic tempo transitions using triplet rhythms
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- čas přidán 29. 01. 2024
- CCL is a beloved DJ throughout certain corners of clublands. Their intuitive style of DJing often fully recontextualise the music they play, with a penchant for careful blends that pull out sonic threads between disparate genres, tempo ranges or BPMs. In this video, they show one how they use a polyrhythmic loop to transition from a house track at 129 BPM to a drum & bass track at 172 BPM.
Track credits:
H20 ft Billie - Satisfied (Take Me Higher) (1995)
Barker - Posmean
Skeptical - Elevator
Production:
Marbella Studio - Diego Jordi Perret, Jose M. Sanchez - Hudba
This is actually the DJ tutorials people need
The basic stuff out here is vital for beginners. This stuff is great for more advanced DJs.
Saying so especially as a beginner DJ but intermediate producer proficient at making varied styles. I know one day I wanna be able to spin pretty much anything with smooth and fun transitions, but the facts is first I gotta be able to even beatmatch basically 😅
Bottom line, I know I'll be using tutorials at all levels. And I know I'm not alone.
not a new technique really bunch of videos came out about this last year.. whats new is calling it polyrhythmic tempo transition 😂
A tip here, you can also work on 3/4 echo meaning that the echo will perfectly match the 4/4 of the slower track. This is an amazing trick if you want to avoid the snares arriving a bit "out of the blue" if it's a difficult track to bring. You can use that 3/4 echo to build up a drop on your 170 something bpm track. If you want more tips: just trial and error :) do it again and again and again. Use your hear for these, they will tell you if it's right or wrong, beat matching with a computer or a pioneer won't fully do the trick. Good luck!
Yeah but that mixer don’t have echo fx
what you meant with a pc or a Pioneer ? :)
@@thesiamface in this video, she uses an Xone 92 which is amazing (my favorite mixer I think) but you don't have any other effects than the great filters. On a Pioneer or via any pc controlled system, you usually have echo effects.
@@yung_aus She's got a delay pedal
Just realized there’s a new triplet effect on the A9… I assume you could use that?
I’m sure this will leave all the other DJs in the room heads spinning around: how did she…? wtf!!??
Looping a 3-beat measure, leaving out the 4, doing a seamless beat-matched transition from 129 to 172…?
Bravo!! Magnifique!
This is hyper advanced level ingenuity in mixing.
When maths and music go hand in hand, the result is obviously incredible ! Thank for the tips
music is maths
Well math won't help when you're beat matching without BPM meters. But you can certainly get a feel for things like this.
@@johanneschristopherstahle3395it will, tempo and compasses are math
@@ovotal This is becoming philosophical. For me time, tempo and so forth do exist without math. Math is a tool man did invent. Time did exist before and will for eternity.
33 years of djing and you’ve just blown my mind! Thank you 🎉
another cool thing that makes these 2 songs work is that the house track already has 3:4 syncopation (gtr chords), and the DnB track features triplets over 4/4 - so the 3 of the house track, and the 1/8th note of the DnB track sync up over quarter notes - in a sense keeping the 3 to 4 feel even though everything always feels like 2 bars of 4
Neat. Not gunna lie, I was that gif of the lady with the math symbols flying over her head for a sec but it was great to see in action.
Cheeky cheeky! Love it when math/music theory comes into play to make some wild transitions
CCL a master
This is dope 🔥
I've never seen such a perfect and straightforward DJ tutorial
i love the way the transition creates a new song, completely unique vibe, i'm so into this
This is sooo excellent. Thank you! Very well explained. Very cool transition
brilliant shit. It actually took me some time to understand.
wow!
Never thought skeptical and house would fit!
Absolutely loved the tutorial. I'm extremely grateful for the clear communication from an expert. Much love ❤
Legit one of the best transitions I've seen and heard.
Great I do it sometimes using delay FX 3/4
Love this series! Thanks!
having that cheeky vocal hint on top of the maths❤❤❤
brilliant methods CCL
Amazing mix, thanks!!
That was sick
Love to see Barker getting plays he's seriously underrated
One of my favourite artists:)
nice and smooth
so sick, really helpful and fun video to watch!!!!
Very cool and clever
Heard about it, never seen it. Sick trick!
House & D&B
Take the bpm you want to match and divide it by 0.75 and you will get the matching bpm number..
awesome!
Classy, love it ❤
amazing
Brilliant!
Absolutely killer
This is so helpful!
Love this. Using math in my sets years ago def took them to the next level.
A head a sweetheart and a genius!! Cecis dedication to the craft and their love for music oozes with evrything they do. My favorite dj and a huge inspiration to all us musick weirdossss
This blew my mind
im in absolute awe with this
Room temp IQ moment
This is so sick
Smooth af!!!
good video
Very clever. 🎉
Neat neat
crazy !!
Clever stuff.
I love bass music so much and I wish some of my favorite DJs cared jusssssst slightly more about DJing itself lol. This was great.
This is ace!!
This is so da** cool! 🎉
This is a cool trick. especially with techno. You can add various effects on top of that 3/4 loop making it sound as if it was prod. The incomming 4/4 always grabs attention.
Nice🔥🔥🔥🔥👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
This is what me and Sam KDC did with Grey Area back in 2014. We used it as a way to bridge between techno and 170.
Big up.
Yo yes, sam kdc perfect for this kinda thing
@ASC Big up!
You, Sam and Lemna are the only people in the world who used to do this before this year; Thanks for the enlightenment guys
yea isnt that wild@@linnaleight2476
This is very clever
in awe at the mix, I've tried similar things but this is someone with actual talent :) also note the A&H Xone92 + Boss DD200 - very similar to my own setup. Lovely!
SICK
It's important that the track you're mixing into has a prominent rhythm that matches well with your outgoing track. Most DnB won't blend this easily with a house or techno track, this one works because it's more of a 6/8 feel than most tracks in the genre (being 4/4). I enjoy blending odd times as a DJ, i think that's due to my musical upbringing as a prog rock/fusion drummer. Machinedrum uses a lot of odd meter in his tracks, I did a live blend one time out of some jungle into his tune 'Only One' in 5/4 that worked really nicely.
Love Only One! Thats a super off kilter 5/4 with how much percussions in there, mustve been a satisfying blend
Yeah 100% first thing I did after watching this video was load up a random 129 and a random 172. Can confirm it sounded like ass.
clean
clever. Would love to hear it executed on a club system. Well explained too. Refreshing to see something educational and unique and not some idiot throwing a fit on stage to a pre recorded set with phones and ice cannons galore
Nice trick
Shiiiiiit. This is brilliant 👌
this is wild
Damn I’ve always tried doing that but I never made a 3/4 loop. I just lazily layered them and came in at the 1. Never thought of this. So dope.
Very smooth. Nicely done
Гениально!
Sick af!!!!!! That kind of tutorial please 🙏
Sick
exactly !
Very nice work
genius
this is real djing!
Oh goodlord Doris
Very nice indeed.
what’s the little grey device next to the mixer on the right?
Buttery
when you're talking about polyrhythms and Barker comes on. this is a soul after my own heart
that was SICK
this is so fucking sick
clever trick. opens up some creative thoughts. loop a quarter bar during the transition perhaps?
These CCL videos have been such a great series!
One thing that stood out to me though; how does the deck on the left auto-loop at the 3:24 mark?
Is that a CDJ feature I’m not aware of?!
You can set up auto-loops in rekordbox, it's pretty easy, give it a Google
Yep, you can set it up in recordbox!
flames tutorial from a flames DJ
God damn that was cool.
I read the title of this video and almost had a stroke
3 beat loop ya mean?
Does this work if you just loop 3/4 of a bar of one track at 129 and a whole bar of the 172 track? Or do you need to create the polyrhythm with 2 tracks first?
Just tried it out, really cool! It helps if the 3/4 129BPM loop contains no percussion.
🎯 the example she used actually didn’t sound great to my ear but using a vocal only house loop is great…
@@kevdog5043the example they used
Great to see some tutorials thanks resident advisor. My take on the drum & bass to 4-4/house transition is that it's best to use ambient sections or breakdowns. This allows breathing room for the different Rhythm Section to come in. It's rarely done well which is why most DJs particularly, decent mixed compilations, tend to remain at a certain tempo. Oakenfold's Oslo Global underground used good-looking records speeded breaks and then I think he went into house and of course there's Coldcut's journeys by DJ mix. Slick transitions that are not beat matched per se tend to solve the Holy Grail of drum and bass to house transition and vice versa. Nobody is really mastered it and if anyone knows a good mix compilation which has transitioned between drum and bass and house tempo well, please let me know.
Great stuff and kudos for this!
For people hungry for more stuff like this I recommend the music of Nicolas Bougaïeff who focuses on exploring these tempo changes through music production.
This is insane
for exactly. this kind of creative and complex transitions I believe technology and sync gotta be used, I know I will make a lot of new friends with such a comment. lol. I play with 2 turntables and a Cdj, and add a sampler in order to record an 8/16/32 ( depending on the mix is going on ) bars loop of the ongoing mix. so I then remove one of the records,set a new one, after so I will remove the bass of the recorded loop and set an unsynced delay wich I will adjust so as to get off beat very smoothly and in a long time and beatmacth the new record to the tempo of the delay of the sample as I will make more present than to the soundd of the loop, and as the deal is not adjusted to a perpetual tempo, since its not in sync , I will need to keep adjusting the new track''''s pitch, whereas with the other hand I make the transitions of eq for the new track, and bring it smoothly in
how did you loop the two house tracks on the fly like that??
I believe she set an active loop, so once the track reaches the point where the loop is, it will active and loop the songs
Big Brain djs unite
This, kids, is why Maths is important.
effin sick
The whole club used to rush it tits off to the H2O track!
so siq ceci
Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i i i i i i i t
watched it, didn't understood shit cause I'm dumb, as soon as she launched the DnB track the whole monthy python irrupted in my brain screaming "A WITCH, A WITCH". Now I'm gonna rewatch untill i get it (probably a few 100 more times)
what is the small cdj on the far right?
XDJ-700, it's like a tiny CDJ but most functions are accessed thru touchscreen and it can't play CD
Fuck haha, it's all mathematics in the end