Beat Matching with NO visuals!!
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In this video I will show you how to DJ without any visual aids. In the old days this was the norm, these days it almost feels like a party trick lol.
You have to try it! Many people say if you can't do this, you are not a real DJ. I don't agree, but if you can do it, respect! Either way, it's fun trying.
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absolutely love your positive energy. very uplifting
I needed this as I have played several club gigs but most recently i played one with old equipment that had no visual way to beat match & no hot ques, I consider myself an intermediate DJ but this gig humbled me very quick & was pretty embarrassing. Definitely taking the time to learn this so that never happens again and would suggest anyone who wants to be a serious DJ does the same. Thanks for the great videos keep it up!
mate your not showing off, your'e getting excited and its so lovely to see! ive been watching loads of your videos waiting for my decks to be delivered (im a beginner). Its so great watching your smiley face, it's clear your'e very passionate about it. Thanks for everything you beautiful man, keep shining like the star you are, love and light, Johnny
Thank you :)
What the man said ^
Its worth mentioning that splitting what your ears hear helps a lot to determine which track is slower - which ear heard the beat first. This can eliminate a bit of guessing of which direction to nudge in. This can be done by having one ear of the headphones on and one off, or split cue on mixers that provide it. It might just be me but would like to see you crack out the 1210s and the vinyl and see if you can maintain your positivity! I bet you’d enjoy the feel of it again. Also, no looping available, so recueing / predicting phrases is a lot more important!
Yes this is another way, but through doing one on ones I found that new beginners, found the way explained in this video to be easier - trial and error and was a good exercise for developing their beat matching skills :)
Dude who absolutely Beat Matched himself into his ideal Career :)
haha ;)
Hi Andrew, I find all your stuff so engaging and you're such a good teacher. Real pleasure to watch your stuff, thanks!
Love it love it love it it feels so good to find that you’ve beat matched exactly
Awesome mate, keep your awesome energy and enthusiasm!
I’m glad I started from vinyl back in the day 👍
Love it my friend. What a great tutorial. Time to practice
You've earned a new subscriber! Big fan🔥
Love your energy mate!! Its infectious AF. I wish you were my teacher when I was first getting into mixing
Love watching your videos , specially as I am in progress of your online course. Back to basic principles keep up the great work . 🔊👍
Always teaching with a smile! Keep up the good work! Thanks!
All smiles, good vibes and relevant lessons. Thank You!!!
I am so happy you made this! You're the best.
awesome content I love the vibes
125.7 on the money. Impressive👌 😎
Mate! You’re brilliant. I love the way you teach, your passion pours through in every video. Love it
Another great vid andrew. Would love to see you in the club environment. I think that should be a future video for you, to do an hours mix for all of us who watch you. Stay safe bro 👍👍
I'm so glad you explained the steps as I want to really get good at this and not rely on tech as things can go wrong.
Love this dude!
Sooooooooo glad I found his channel.
Old school dj who gave it up for 20 years.
Coming back now with all the new technology is amazing.
SUPER BRAVO you are best Dj
what a beautiful person -- our beat elf he is!
Your like the most positive person i think I've seen, love your energy and enthusiasm keep it up mate very likable guy 👍
This is a really good tutorial, beatmatch with ears is very tricky, thank you for sharing how you beat match and the positive vibe as always! Keep it up!
I was always a sync dude back in the day and since I rediscovered this passion I said I want to learn properly. I followed the guide and honestly I was getting great 4-5 tracks in!!! So simple to follow and understand and this is how I will do things moving forward so thank you!
That's my response to people who say using "sync" is cheating while using the BPM and waveforms on their laptops/CDJs, I usually tell them if they're not using vinyl and mixing by keys they're also cheating, usually shuts them up. Music selection and reading the crowd is much more important (but you should still now how to beatmatch the "authentic" way, just in case)
Good call :)
Thats absolute nonsense
Thank you so much, you're such a good teacher
You're very welcome and thank you!
I think this is a very important lesson for bedroom controller DJs aspiring to play the clubs (Including myself 😄)
I have been trying to understand this for years and you made it so simple! Thank you!!
You're very welcome, thank you :)
I love your clips.
When I started to spin the wheels of steel it was really hard to learn to hear even only 2 bpm difference.
The best thing to learn matching is to practice analog - with vinyl.
Keep rocking 👍
Your videos are the best, I've learned and progressed so much since I came across your channel. Awesome energy in every video and so much knowledge!
I appreciate that heaps Adam, thank you
YOUR BEAT MATCHING BY EAR IS THE BEST VIDEO ON CZcams!!!
Sooo Great that you said it’s ok to hit cue & start over if you get lost!!!!
Also you conveyed thats it’s ok to try both directions to figure out which way sounds better !!!
#NOTSUREoneMore !!!
🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯🎧🎧🎧🎶🎶🎶
Thank you I appreciate this Monee - seems your watching all my content - a thirst for knowledge!!!
I've watched a lot of these types of videos and you are the best I've seen on youtube I find it easier to learn from someone who has love for what hes doing I've turned videos off because the people doing them seem like there doing it for something to do and not for the love of it. Makes a big difference you make it feel like your learning with us
That's actually my aim Barry. For me it's not about being the best DJ in the world, it's about being the best teacher and from doing years and years of in person training, I know the pace new students need. Sure in my course, I can get people there fast, but learning involves a process and I would like to think I understand that process very well. Thanks for noticing and commenting. Hopefully see more of you :)
I absolutely love your upbeat optimism view and attitude towards everything you do. You are the most incredible person/teacher that has ever existed in the DJ lessons world. You don't hide anything and reveal all you know for free unlike others which also shows how your so giving unlike others who just do it for there own gain (MONEY). THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR TIME AND TRUE COMMITMENT. ( DJ D@ND¥&ND¥)
I was thinking the same thing. He is legitimately a great overall person. The world needs more people like this. The positive energy is so contagious!!
Man, your videos are great! Keep on going! Greetings from brazil 🇧🇷
Thank you very much!
I love your videos! Please keep it up! Your positive energy is so inspiring.
Also I’m dying to know the “Move my body” track ID?? 😍
Love it Andrew👍👍
Thanks Michael :)
I always try to beatmatch by ear but unfortunately my hyperacusis, hearing loss and ringing in the ears won’t allow me to do so for very long so I end up relying on the screens. With time you develop other skills and your brain and ears also help you. I love your enthusiasm and how humble you are. I am going to purchase your course. Thanks.
This should be the way how people learn to beat match! This was the exact way a dj learned me to beatmatch about 9 years ago
respect!!
Andrew I have been djing for almost a year and progressing at a nice pace. I read and watch as many tutorials explanations etc as I can. Since starting I have heard so much shit about using sync and people hating on each other that I dismissed it as nonsense and additional steps that a modern dj doesn't need to do. Firstly the explation about club gear may not have a sync feature was a very valid point that although I don't intend on djing in a club I may go to someone else's party and want a go on their gear etc got me interested. Secondly your explanation on how to do beat match without visuals was so clear and explained in a way I have not heard before I am now beat matching by ear consistently, that isn't because I am a prodigy it is because the steps behind the process was explained so well.
Sorry for the long post but I can tell how enthusiastic you are about what you do and wanted to thank you.
I am subscribed and now looking at your couses.
Keep up the good work and thank you
Chris
What a wonderful comment. I saved this, thank you :)
good video. just newly starting, i use Sync to get the speed's aligned before starting the next record, but i definitely need to practice this no screen routine! will give it a go tonight :)
Mr club ready dj school one day I'm gonna save enough for your course! Keep up the great work
You'll only regret not having done it sooner :)
Good Stuff 🙌🏻 Thanks 🌟
My pleasure!
Back in the day with Vinyl you can actually look at the record for the drop/break transition so yes you had one visual Aid
Nicholas Pearce Agree but at least you have a general idea
Don't forget the one vu-meter for cueing or the two vu-meters which get assigned to cue or mix. ;D
hello fam :::D good to see you happy like always :D
This whole comment section makes me feel old. I have no idea how to beat match using visual aids. play the vinyl, listen to the beat, match it, mix it.
You're the man Nick. TBH, I used to be like you, but then adapted and this video was the first time I went back to that in years. I guess I try to make it look and feel a little less daunting to newbies as I remember when I started, it was SO much harder, but in saying that, more fun!
Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome 😊
Andrew I was wondering if you'd be able to address how to beatmatch tracks with fluctuating BPMs (generally older tracks with real instruments). Thanks again
I think realisticaslly you can't. Either need to keep adjusting or transition quickly.
One option is to warp the older songs (just the part where you want to mix, not the whole track). I use this to mix old and new songs together but needs quite a bit of prep. Then you can use looping functions and have some fun with the mix without having to rush.
czcams.com/video/CFuI-cZ31cc/video.html
Everyone has answered this for me - thanks team :)
Kill the track IE turn off the deck and transition to the other track ... Forget beat matching them ❤️🪘😎
Mate, since stumbling across your channel I have been bingeing your videos. Your teaching/coaching style is fantastic and easy to follow, thank you for taking the time to share your wealth of knowledge with us 'plebes' lol. Are you doing your DJ course during lock-down, how does it work if I'm interstate? Also have you/do you ever use a MIDI controller like the Launchpad and Ableton software? If so would love to see a video on how you integrate it. Keep doing what you're doing, it's greatly appreciated at this time. Time to go get me a deck to play along at home.
Thanks mate, I appreciate this. You should check out my online course: www.clubreadydjschool.com/club-ready-dj-course/ It packages the same material as my in person classes, plus so much more and if you are ever in Sydney, once completed, I'd be happy to give you live shows, once all the lockdown ends :)
Beat matching is an imperative skill for DJs imo
Thank you sm! I have a controller with no waves I literally have no choice hahahaha
Quality and succinct information Andrew. Always great to have an experienced DJ teaching without all these 'real DJing' hangups
Slightly leftfield quesrion. Where is your tshirt from? Absolute 🔥🔥 would love to nab one!
My pleasure!
I’m just trying to get better at beatmatching by ear AFTER I already have the BPM matched. If I got good at doing the BPM by ear I’d probably just do everything with the tempo fader (speeding it up till the kicks match then backing off till the BPM stays in sync). It just feels more natural to use the jog wheel when I’m looking at the waveform (just brake the jog for a half second till the phase meters are lined up) and use the tempo fader when you’re just using your ears.
You're back!! I have missed your input :)
For some reason I’ve always tried riding the tempo to beat match and have struggled but this seems much more obvious!
Great video Andrew. Thankyou
And god bless darth vader
I’m thinking phrase mixing with no screens turns into a little bit of a guessing game if you don’t know the track inside out?
Feels bloody good when you hit it right though haha 👍🏼
Hahahaha 125.7 hahaha good manhahaha
Love the Darth Vader note book for Star Wars day
Haha, I love cute notebooks :) You should see how many I have, all filled with my ideas and scribbles.
Another good technique to teach is how ride the pitch control to make corrects and to fine tune in the bpm. I actually still use this technique to this day. I watch the videos for entertainment if you are wondering
Glad you find in entertaining. You're right pitch riding would be the next method, but baby steps for the newbies :)
NS Chimaq Williams I used to do the same, I always adjusted the pitch up or down until it was in time, I never touched the record. It was just the way I learnt and I never knew people did it differently 👍
I agree, pitch riding is an excellent way to beat match . It's something i adopted in my later years of Dj-ing on 1210's
Cool, Cool. Nice video! One question, when you usually beat match in a club, do you play both song in your headphones or just the song that is about to kick in?
Thank you🙏
The first video I've seen that explains beatmatching simply for beginners! No problem looking at the screen because all the professionals and superstar DJs also do this, why would you not take advantage of technology? Just learn to beatmatch the beats without your eyes being glued to the how they waveforms lineup, learn which way you will have to move the jog wheels as waveforms are sometimes not analysed properly in rekordbox for example
Good call Harry :)
0:22 HE SAID IT
Great video! Love your videos, do you have any that help with mixing songs that are very different bpms?
Yes check out some of my earlier videos, there's one where I talk about mixing RNB and EDM and there's actually some in my online course about this :)
Make pitch setting on hip hop 😎
You look and sound like you could be Alexander Volkanovski's brother! Lol, definitely different career paths though
Hi sir can you do video on how to dj uk garage music
Yep. I'm an old school vinyl DJ from the early 1980s.
It's weird, beat matching by ear can now be seen as a party trick lol - just having some fun ;)
@@ClubReadyDJSchool Much of what we did back in the day has been radically altered by technology. Struggling to ride a beat mix with the extended club mix of Bowie's Let's Dance has been replaced with 5 minutes of warping in Ableton.
Isn't it possible to record the line out? Anyway, thanks for all the effort :)
Dath Vader and kittens 🐱🤘🏼
May the Fourth be with you
Haha yes, this video was coincidentally released on May 4 :)
😂
appreciate your videos. Thank you again
What CDJs do you have? And what do you recommend in terms of Denon v Pioneer? Denon seem to be upping the game massively but you won’t see anything other than Pioneer in the clubs
You said it ;) I have CDJ900NXS and DJM 900NXS
Hey Andrew! What's your thoughts on dj's using the sync?
haha ;) I think DJs should know how to beat match by ears but sometimes sync can come in handy, so all good. But i never think a DJ should rely on sync to be able to mix :) This is asking for trouble down the line.
I was actually practising/playing the how quickly can i get the songs matched game today ;-) and recognised that when there is a big difference in the bpms, say anything over ten, its so much harder to audibly detect whether an increase or decrease in speed via the jog wheel has improved the sound. I have started to count beats of the song playing then counting the beats of the song cued in my headphones to see if its obvious whether its faster or slower but still catches me out. Do you have any tips to over come this as I can think of anything else obvious to do.
Thanks in advance and as always thanks for the great videos
You just need to keep practicing. Humans don't have a sense of rhytm by default. It's all learned through repetition. Just keep practicing and you'll make it.👍
could you do a video on how to get into the club scene as a teen as i'm not sure i'll get gigs at 14
I have a whole club pack section on my course, but in saying that, are most clubs 18 and over. Perhaps you need to start some under 18 events in your community - house parties, community centres etc!!
@@ClubReadyDJSchool thanks this helped
Are these videos all on the online course?
Hey Andrew, Just a question regarding song choice and I was wondering if most your songs do you choose randomly with similar bpms or do you plan the songs by setting cues etc. Im trying to freestyle a lot more but isn't seeming to work out.
I suggest starting with similar BPMS and genres at first and then build from there once you are more confident with your mixing and the mixing process.
how about when you're mixing drum and bass and you need to be mixing in and out pretty quickly? is it just a matter of getting quicker at this?
Yes :)
Where do you get your tracks from? I'm a new DJ just starting out. And would you prefer buying music to download or streaming music
www.beatport.com :)
its seems like display of the platter "spinning" goes around once per bar. Can that be used as a visual to help beat match too?
No
No different from looking at the grooves on a record
I think it’s more of a visual representation of where the tempo fader is at. It tries to look like a real vinyl deck spinning at 33-1/3 RPM, so no matter what BPM it is, it’s going to go that speed when it’s at the track’s natural BPM. If you put it in Wide and double the tempo it’ll spin twice as fast, or you can slow it all the way down till it stops spinning. But it doesn’t give you any information you can’t get just by looking at the position of the tempo fader.
So to summarize... - When beatmatching tracks you'll play with the jog wheel until it feels right. But what happens if you mess up the phrasing of the track? What happens then?
Beatmatch in loop, than exit loop beginnig or ending of phrase, maybe?
And then make your transition.
Can you do a video on phrase mixing??
Please ahahah :)
There's a whole bunch of really good material that is exclusive to the course: www.clubreadydjschool.com/club-ready-dj-course/
What do you do with your eq's?
I have a video on my channel, called volume faders VS eq - check it out.
Actually I've got a question. I'm on a ddj 400 and the pitch fader isn't terribly precise even on min value (6%) and sometimes I need up to 10% for some mixes (I do dnb and hardtek so if you have flac or wav files it's fun and sounds fine to either speed the dnb up to 92bpm or slow the tekno down to 92 bpm). Is there any way to address that that you know of? It's very annoying when even the smallest of smallest fader movements jumps a quarter or even half a bpm altogether. Thanks in advance
TBH that's just the difference between cheap gear and expensive gear. Cheap gear can sometimes be a little fiddly. I notice what you are talking about all the time. It sucks as it encourages newbies to use sync and sets up bad habits early.
@@ClubReadyDJSchool ok so I gotta ask. Provided I actually train my beatmatching almost religiously, and that often I'll just beatmatch what's possible with the fader and just sync at the last second if I see it's just not precise enough, is it OK to use sync? I've always avoided it but it gets really annoying when I feel I could beatmatch it no problem but get held back by the fader. What I usually do these days is get it as close as possible and keep adjusting it with the plates, but again very annoying if I'm in a complicated spot of a routine/mix and have to keep syncing the track together as I'm using knobs and pads too. At least til I get better gear I guess.
Anyhow, thanks again mate!
@@hexstaticloonatic4194 there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with using sync. I guarantee if djs had this technology back in the 80's & 90's they would have been using it. Why wouldn't they want to make their life easier? Not having to spend so much time beat matching by ear frees you up to do so many other creative things to spice up your set!
Hi, track name at 10:06 is ? Please help :)
What headphones do you use ._.
Seinheisser HD25 :)
Club Ready DJ School thanks homie :D
what does your hand tattoo says
I don't have a hand tattoo, so if there's something there it's a written note, but on my wrist I have a symbol which represents to me - too much to explain (kind of personal - a cliche symbol, but equivalent to a wedding ring - that relation ship has since dissolved. All good, life has its chapters and as long as we constantly learn and omve forward the human experience is f'n awesome!!
that's great! I meant forearm, not hand, sorry my bad@@ClubReadyDJSchool
@@guettadavid94 it's Sanskrit (the old language of the Gods about vibration): it's all about being pure and knowing our true self our divine nature :)
how many real djs still take photos on 35mm camera film? :p
Hahahaha um duh, using visuals are a plus to DJ's who can without. I mean I know how but I use visuals to make my life easier. Why not? Like in the video, music arrangement and good blends matter more then how you did it. Making mix CD's we never made them live, we used editing programs once we could. "Visual aids" no one wants to buy a CD hearing you catch up beats lol. IMO.