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Topic: How would you jump from a couple of songs that's 100 bpm to a group of songs that are 130 bpm to 140 bpm to 160 bpm?

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Posted Thu 28 Nov 13 @ 12:07 am
Depends on the situation. If your doing a mix then scratch the faster song in or use the mic and say something.. "Time to get this party bumppin" or whatever you want to say. I tend to loop the end of the track/transition point, and then speed up the loop, beat match them quickly, and drop the new track. Or let the song finish throw in a sample like a horn and bring in the new track. Just something that will break up the last track so you can bring in the new one. Lots of different ways. I'm still a noob so some of the more experienced guys might have something else to say.

Brendan
 
If the new song has words, and no beat, loop a 4/8/16 depending and move the crossfader from the current song to the looped song, then unloop.
 
Yes it can be done, but at the right point in the songs before you transition into the next song, so you better know the songs before you attempt this or you'll have a train wreck on your hands....
 
those are good options and you should learn to do them first but you won't always have the time to do that
the good news is that you can also buy music and videos that can help with you with this.
remixed with intros that go from the lower bpm ranges to higher and vice versa.
only trick is to not over-use them so they don't get stale.
 
That's is a really good topic! I think each week when I Dj about how to simplify moving the pitch fader without focusing on both bpms on the screen. It would be cool if someone made a pitch lock for both players and when you match the beats for example 128 with a song of 100bpms obviously the 100 bpm would sound funny if mixed with the outro of the 128 but locking the 2 pitches together and slowing down the 128 bpm they will always be in sync until your at the point you are ready to mix. Or vise versa. Plugin?? That was tough to explain!!
 
1) use the break down of the higher bpm song to cut the lower bpm song in
2) somewhat similar to #1 but instead cutting at the end of a breakdown, you use phrasing. Say at the end of a chorus
3) using effects like echo (my favorite way to do it)
4) Taking the beat intro of the lower bpm, speeding it up and matching it to the higher bpm track. most will be 8bars, once the 8bars is done cut it and move pitch fader to 0
5) baby scratch and cut in the slower track, personally for me this only sounds good when going from fast to slow
6) if you are in a DJ pool, they put out a lot of transition tracks. one of the perk of being in pools
7) if you are decent in Ableton you can make your own transitions.

A lot of these tricks rely on tracks being in key. Otherwise they will sound off and forced. Its bad enough you are changing tempo rapidly and drastically, add to that being off key, its just gonna sound bad.

Here's one I did recently where I jumped BPM's and even genres. The first mix, I actually just let the song play out and used a track with similar sounding intro. Its not the best out there, but hopefully you can get an idea by listening to it.

https://soundcloud.com/djaltadeo/dj-al-tadeo-top40-thanksgiving
 
love transition tracks ......makes the flow down or up that much easier actually have a transition piece for bubble butt starts at 128 have enough at the base 97 or whatever to mix true track before bumps back to 128 have it hotcued to work either way
and the crowd goes nuts.....
 
The major factor is know your music! You can mix almost anything if you know song x and song y go good together. Checking the key of both songs is another method. In some cases you can beat stretch songs over a 10 bpm gap, but that again comes down to how well you know your music.
 
As I've been saying for years, you don't need to blend every song every time. Unless you're recording a mix, simply fade one down, fade the new one up. Just like a radio station would do it.
 
I used the pitchlock to lock both faders and it works great. Just what I was looking for to mix from 100 to 128 for example
 
For me I keep a gang of transitional videos/audio tracks. But I do know that every track doesn't have to be "mixed" all the time. If you are a mic "friendly" DJ, then simply while doing a "radio" fade at the end while making your announcement fade your next up/down tempo track. Most people will too busy listening to you then they will notice the track vibe afterwards.
 
In my club when I have to switch things up I usually slam mix it. Slamming into DMX Party Up always gives a positive reaction.
 
I have custom mapped my MC6000

I have Master Tempo switched on permanently;

1. SHIFT & PITCH BEND - locks the pitch of each deck together
2. SHIFT & PITCH BEND + resets the pitch, if they are locked together then they both gradually move together.
3. SHIFT & BROWSE enables the flashing cursor in the search box, or, if there is text in the search box, it will clear the box.

I normally only beatmatch if the BPMs are less than 10 beats apart. I have my pitch set at 10% maximum. I don't think it sounds good any more than this, not the quality, but, rather the speeding up or slowing down for such a dramatic change. Just sounds daft to me lol.

For switching from 100 bpms to 128 bpms I would either slam or use a jingle/drop, alternatively, there's always the microphone ;-)
 
 


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