How to find the 1 (one count) | Counting music
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Hi teacher: I was confused most of the time about finding the first beat ! But this is second time I am watching your video and i can understand very easily about the first beat
TLM-Can't thank you enough for posting your tutorials. I really enjoy your channel. I'm new to dj'ing and finding the one, and trying to hit the drop transition point has been difficult for me with vocal heavy music like hip-hop and pop. Your videos on beat counting, timing, and transitions really have helped greatly. After watching this video, I've been listening to my library on a random shuffle, and getting used to finding the one from various points in a track to simulate having to quickly find the one while dj'ing. Your instruction on this really is on point. I thought I knew my music before, but your advice has caused me to hear the composition on another level. Thank you so much, glad to support your music. Best wishes for continued success!
DJ TLM, I have been DJing for going on 26 years now. I am so glad I found your videos on CZcams! Your videos are fresh and your teaching style is inspiring. You explain things in a way that even an old rocker like myself can understand. You have obviously honed your craft, and your passion for sharing your skills with others sets you apart from the crowd. Thank you for opening my eyes to some things I had never thought of. I love DJ TLM TV. Keep the videos coming. Thanks again.
never commented on youtube, but really got to say, very useful tutorials!!
Thank you so much DJ TLM!
Thank You!! I've been looking for something that made sense on how to count music (your last video) and how to find the top of the music. Others I've watched haven't helped but, you have clarified if for me thank you! I just started teaching exercise and needed to learn how to count and how to find the top of the music using 32 and 8 counts.
DjTLM you are too much i really appreciate ur works am new in Djing i have followed ur tutorials and now i think am doing better learning from u regards from Ghana Dj Kabs
I’ve been Dj’ing for 2 years now but i haven’t grown as a DJ. In other words, I’ve just been mixing but not learning new skills. But I’m going back to the basics of Dj’ing and starting from scratch again.
Thanks TLM!!! Was watching Share the Knowledge and came back to watch this vid for a refresher!! Appreciate you brotha.
That’s the great thing about the internet. I go back to certain videos or items numerous times over the years
Very perfect and precise verbal teaching bro 💯🙌 thank you
Nice vid bro!
Good to see that you use the same method to find the 1 as I do.
Love what you're doing for the DJ community. I'm just getting started, and your videos are my go-to for learning. I tell all my aspiring DJ's about your site - huge thanks! I'm looking for your playlist where I can download beats, etc. but can't find it. Am I blind or has it been taken down? If you would be so kind to post the direct URL I would be very grateful. Keep on spinning!
Sensei 🙏🏾
Hey man I have been watching a few tutorials here and there, your not the only "one"(see what i did there) but you are definitely top of the list of teachers ive seen.
Thank you from 2 years after!
Thanks! I appreciate that
I dont subscribe on CZcams but commenting back within a day on a two year video. You got my only subscription man. Get sleep and stay healthy!
Great instruction! Thanks for the vids brother
I've been playing a musical instrument for years (woodwind). Counting has always been the most difficult thing for me. I thought I was the only person in the world who was beat-deaf. Thanks...this helps! It actually was never taught to me. I guess my music instructor way been in school taught it to the drummers and just assumed the rest of us could pick up on it.
Great to hear that it helped! 👍🏽👍🏽
Great to hear that it helped! 👍🏽👍🏽
DJ TLM thank you for sharing this video brotha.
My pleasure
Yes! That's what I'm dealing with at the moment! Thanks!
Thank you!!🙏🏻
You make us very easy and ur very detailing.much love am your new fan bro.
I appreciate that👊🏾
thanks, i do swing and have great problems differentiating between the 5 and 1 beats but this vid was helpful thanks
This is why it is so important to listen to every track you purchase and practice your sets b4 you play at your gig. I know there are freestyle DJs out there but you should at least listen to your music. TLM freestyle but I am certain he is aware of the tracks he plays.
Really useful for aerobic / zumba instructor 👍👍👍👍 Tq so much
One minute in I love you!
Hey tlm nice video ... I would like know how to select the identical song to play next .. Like if i should match the sounds by the type of beat or the instruments... I would like to know because people may find intresting a sound but changing into another that is a bit different may be disapointed... Thanks...
You are the best!!!
Thanks for sharing the knowledge. I will admit with some electro/ House music, without vocals or a melody, it takes time to listen for the phrase change. Some are obvious. Some are not.
If you know when to start dancing after a breakdown ends, then you know where the one is. Counting beats did not come naturally to me, but if you try counting the beats EVERY time you hear music being played, you'll get the hang of it pretty quick.
Can you do a mixing tutorial in terms of bars and the one and techniques for latin music? mernegue cumbia salsa etc
Thank you :) Can you pls do a video on how to get yourself an agent? where to look etc
thanks for the video my man... huge help, still trying to work on my transitions....
+DJ BUDDAFINGAZ No problem. Keep practicing
Great video again. I would really be great full if you could make a video about scratching in the incoming track versus fading or blending. I'm having trouble switching up my incoming scratch patterns and I'm wondering should I stop doing it all together.
Cory King Cool, I'll shoot something soon
Thanks for the information. I was unknowingly doing what you described. I was completely ignorant to the structure of music, no musical background or training, and your videos have helped a bunch. I've watched most, if not all, of your tutorials.
When is your FX tutorial coming out?
Which information exactly? That songs (music pieces) have a structure? Or that you"should be able" to listen what you play? 1.or your posing and not honest
2. or you are extremely ignorant about music (which I doubt)
I mean, this guy don't know if he will collect shoes or will make music. And he talks trash in that video.
Thanks so much, you do such a good work teaching the world about djing, thanks so much 🙏🙏
djTLMtv I have no problem counting music I've been DJing since 95 or so I've noticed some rappers start they bars on the two how do you handle this when djing/beatmatching do you still drop it on the 1 or drop it on the two to keep the song intact
The best thing I found that helped me find the 1 count was counting beats bars & phrases. At first I started by counting A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 / B 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 / C 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 / D 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 at the end of that counting is the one count. Sometimes if I didn't know where the one count was I would start anywhere and if I heard a signifier (drum fill, crash, vocal change, instrumental change, chord progression restart/change) I would restart my counting. After a while I progressed my counting methods to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 / 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 / 3 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 / 4 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 then onto 1 2 3 4 / 2 2 3 4 / 3 2 3 4 / 4 2 3 4 / 5 2 3 4 / 6 2 3 4 / 7 2 3 4 / 8 2 3 4. Every song I listened to I repeated this process. After a while hearing the 1 count will become second nature. A little while later I started being able to predict the last 4 & 8 beats preceding the one count. Your ear will actually start to prompt you even when you're not counting to prepare for a drop / change etc. - Have some fun with it, change it up a bit if you like too, add half counting, quarter counting etc (eg. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 / 2 e and a 3 e and a 4 e and a... etc)
Grant Broad Even though your comment was a bit confusing to me at first, I understand exactly what you mean. For me it is also second nature and I can 'feel' when the next phrase change is coming without even counting at all.
djTLMtv Probably not the best way of explaining it :) but yeah I'm pretty sure I started using these methods of counting from some of your earlier vids. Been really helpful man, much appreciated.
Anyone needing more help on how to count beats in bar, try tapping on a table or beat boxing beats out and counting them. I grew up beat boxing for freestylers, and it really helped me when i started djing.
Yup, I used to drum before I started DJ’ing
this is so good
Thanks
beat nice..vid great
WHEN THERE R 2 BARS WITH A LIL DIFFRENCE PLAYING SIMULTANEOUSLY, then shud I count that whole as one bar or count it two bars as same. I STILL HAVE SAME QUESTION PLEASE REPLY
is that download of beat still available ?
Find the one in some old techno tunes!! I still have trouble with them especially when u don't know the tune. Some times you have to wait for a major change. It's defo a feeling thing
So if my bpm is the same.
And I start a beat of one song and mix it into the start of the chorus of another and vise versa...
Thats all I really need to know right ?
lot's of times though the change takes place later in the 1st bar of the new phase, like u get a hat after the 4th kick of the 1st bar , so how can you not miss the 1 then? gr8 vid thx
Great video! I have a question. How come for example Boiler Room DJ's when they play their sets and it's recorded and uploaded to CZcams, the CZcams itself does not take down this videos even though it contains various music. Can't you use various music? If i recall correctly you once said that you can't. Thanks in advance and keep up the great work! :)
Илья Юн It depends on which record label owns the rights to the songs. Some labels will demand that the audio gets deleted. Sometimes your video will only be available in certain countries. Others aren't available on mobile devices. Others will get the video taken down, etc.
I've had all of the examples above happen to my mix video's on my djtlm channel.
love this pls how can i download the video
how's it going DJ TIM this is DJ in the groove, hope all is well I've got a question for you, is there any way on Serato DJ I can color code the parts where I can do my transition on the one?
you can use cue-points for this as a marker in the track
you are the shit bro! theory done simple and right, wish you all the best
4/4 beats are easy. It can get technical when you try to bring in the next track from the 1st beat but that 1st happens to start on the 4. Or the 3. Their are tracks out there that do that.
So I watched one of his other videos. And had to watch this one bc there is nothing comparable.
Hey TLM. I've been playing around with my mixtrack pro for years now. I haven't really made it to the point that I would play in a club or bar but lately I've been thinking of really stepping up my game and maybe aim for a local bar. I'm into 70s 80s and 90s new wave stuff. earth wind and fire, swing out sister etc. Basically my mom and dad's music. I learned about phrasing from your video and I learned how to mix in the next track. I usually hit my play button when the chorus comes in from track one and end the mix after the chorus and go to track 2. I have 2 problems.
1.) My beatmatching is okay but I always get tempted by the waveform. My dad is an oldschool DJ back in the day but he tells me I should use whatever is available and that its okay to use the waveform as my guide. I really wanna be able to beatmatch perfectly and know which way to nudge the platter everytime something goes off beat. I was wondering if you have tips on how I improve my beatmatching? Or is it perfected through experience? There was this one time that I just moved my pitch down after hearing the song go off beat and it beatmatched. Thought that was cool.
2.) When it comes to starting track 2, I saw some DJs start on the 5. Or the second 1. Thought I'd try this out but can't really figure it out.
I'm more of a visual learner so whenever I get tips from DJs, I really can' understand it until I see it for myself. I was taught counting in a bar, while the DJ was playing and didn't make sense of it until I saw your video.
Thanks man!
Think about it like skipping rope. You gotta get your timing down. Also, try not to use sync. The computer can match the tempo, but not the beat necessarily. You already can look and see how many bpms the incoming track is. In my opinion it's ok to come in a little fast because you can nudge it down. It's always been a little harder for me to bring a slower track up to speed.
Thanks! I've never really used sync except for house music before. I was curious what it did but that was it.
I'll try that and see if its easier for me if I bring the fader down a bit to make it faster and adjust up to beatmatch.
Dancer here. Thanks for the count. On the 1. Nj-usa. Peacr
I sometimes get problems when im in the drop of a track which is lets say 8 phrases long. Because I mostly mix liquid DnB, there wont be a big change in the drop it self.
So if I wanted to start a transition right at the end of the drop (where the "cooldown phase" sets in) I often dont know how much time/bars I have left, because I cant point out a spot where I could say: yeah, thats the one...
Do you have any suggestions on that?
Example Tracks:
Sigma - Paint it Black
Netsky - Memory Lane
Bcee - Fire Box (at around 4:20)
Sorry for spelling mistakes, isnt my native language.
QUESTION: If you want to mix from song one and song number two and you want to start song number two on a certain part. Now this part does NOT start one a ONE. If this is the case do you still drop on the one or do you drop on the count before where song 2 starts?
Yes, you pick the count where song 2 starts
I'm noticing some tracks the 1 doesn't always drop on the bar in serato... do you use the 1 or the bar line?
I look for the 1. I hardly ever look at the line
Serato Dj users that are having trouble finding the one can use cue point markers to mark the beginning of all the courses or hooks.
Dave Anderson True, I've seen some DJ's do that. I never use cue points that way, but it could help if someone's having trouble locating those transition points
1234,2234,3234,4234,,(1)..an it switch on that last 1 ..an depending on how fast or slow the beat is matter to so if its a slow beat the count is slow if it's a fast beat you gotta count fast
You are counting at the tempo that the song is playing, so with a slow song you are counting along to that slow tempo indeed
how can I find a chorus
Iv never heard that beat before .. And I found the 1 right off ..
See my dad taught to DJ at a very young age and its second nature to me .. And I never called it the 1 .. It was just the time to drop the second track bc it would sound & flow the best for biggest impact.
My question to you is if you don't naturally don't have the skill to hear the beat and find the 1 , can it be taught ? Can someone that likes music be taught to be a good DJ ?
TheJennyg76 It was the same for me, but people who don't 'feel' this naturally can learn how to do it and over time it will become second nature.
ok so the one starts useally on a change in the music like the vocals comes in that would start a new phrase or when the music goes through a change like a cymbal crash or a kick drum starts. or something similar.
wbuttry1 Well, there is a 1 every 4 bars, but the 1 you're looking for to start a mix or to start a proper count would be a one as you just described
djTLMtv Awesome thank you for doing a video on this I did not know where to begin or I just did not realize it one I play guitar and keyboard guess it never came up till I got into dj'ing.
So if u understoond it right you should start your next song at the beginning of a phrase?
What about songs that don’t start on a “ 1 “ like Sexy Back or I wanna be your lover etc. how do I find what count the song starts on do I count backwards from the one.
Those are actually pretty basic. Sexy Back has a little sound before the 1, but that first kickdrum is on the 1.
I wanna be your lover starts with a snare, but after that the beat begins and that's where you start your count. You were talking about Prince right?
@@djTLMtv yes
Have you appear on De Avondploeg?
2011sliverdude Yeah, I've been there a couple of times with Brainpower
I've been a musician for 45+ years. Mostly studio work, soundtracks, jingles, production work for a diverse list of professional music labels for different artists and stage gigs as well. There is nothing wrong about been a DJ. But my best recommendation to dominate this particular topic with real authority is: get real basic music theory classes. So you can understand the rhythm in the way you are supposed, not using bogus short cuts or vapid tricks. Perhaps through doing it you might feel interested in learning to play a real music instrument and you might be a lot more creative and productive than what you are right now just pushing a play and pause button and changing CD's of pre-recorded music made by real musicians. What I say is: "In the same way making photocopies on a Xerox machine doesn't make you an book author, playing recorded music thru an audio reproduction system doesn't makes you a musician." I'm just doing an extremely simple academic logical analysis of the tasks. Now don't take me wrong, I don't have any issues with what DJ's do. I like to hear pre-recorded music, if is good and if it have some real meaning. But, if what you really like to do in life is to push the play button, then just keep pushing it like a maniac and stay on that stage for ever! Follow your passion but do it with all your heart. And the 1st pulse of the count is right there on the first pulse the bar that belongs to the 1st bar of each part of the song.
Neo, where are you?!
+Jeepsderp 😂😂😂
I am having trouble finding the 1 like how do you do that
How long should a scratch technique take before dropping a song on the other deck
There is no answer for that. You decide how long you want to scratch. But you want to pay attention to when you drop the song
Me bieng a 13 year, and as a dj. It is very hard to try and get gigs. How do I get people to take me seriously because i believe i have talent to prove them wrong.
Rey Preciado Exactly the same for me
Rey Preciado I get this question more often. I should do a video
I'm dancer how can I improve my musicalty
#HappyAirMaxDay!
you in N.Y??
cant find it
nice...i subconsciously knew this from salsa class...lool. no wonder why i was transition to the next music on time....lool
You find THE 1 on soundcloud, which is me! Was that good selfpromotion TLM?
NO1 (NoOne) nice try at least ;)
NO1 (NoOne) :)
+djTLMtv..what website did you go to get your name on the back of your laptop design..any tips
Novice at this and I don't notice the beat change on 3:14. I've been playing and can't get a grasp of this
Bigboutya dunno Rastafari
So... this might be a stupid question, but.. what is BPM?
it stands for beats per minutes. how many times the track beats in 1 min
Find the 1 st beat in bollywood bro
It’s like double Dutch
I couldn’t tell you. I’m Dutch, but I never played double Dutch😁
Deafly need more examples of finding the one and hot cue it
@ ForgottenGames GR: I can't reply to your comment directly so I hope you read this. I did not fully understand your question. Are you asking me how to select your next song to play when you're mixing?
djTLMtv sir i ll show u
justin biber song is which beat ??
Justin Bieber has nothing to do here :P
You said the one count only one time ,in over 6 minutes: not helpful!
I haven’t seen this video in a long time, but I’m pretty sure that’s not true. I’m going to watch it now
I just watched it again, and I explained the concept and even showed it with an example by playing the beat. Have you watched my beats, bars and phrases video? That will make this video easier to understand.
@@djTLMtv when I watched your other one I got it. Thanks. My point is that would be easier for me if you said one on the one count every time. Most people learn by repetition, especially me.
What? You know the beat but we also "should be able" to recognize where it stars"?? Really? And why you have shoes in your music shelves? Sorry, may be he's a cool guy, but this is Ridiculous
So Milos, explain to me what exactly is ridiculous to you.
You wasted lot of time and footage man, get to the point stop yapping.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
djTLMtv I have no problem counting music I've been DJing since 95 or so I've noticed some rappers start they bars on the two how do you handle this when djing/beatmatching do you still drop it on the 1 or drop it on the two to keep the song intact
DjBlackTxArk If they start on the two you should still drop your mix on the one because (most of the times) the hook will come in on a 1.