The Complete Guide to Beginner DJ Mixing with CDJs and a Mixer
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In this video course, world-renowned DJ Shortee teaches you the essential DJ skills that you need to beatmatch and mix your music using CDJs and a DJ mixer. These skills include manual adjustments, tuning your ears, manual beatmatching, and beginner mixing techniques. She breaks down the entire beatmatching and mixing process slowly and clearly, step by step and in multiple ways, so that you can fully grasp the concepts, while also giving you specific exercises that you can practice repeatedly to hone your beatmatching skills. Every lesson is taught in a clear and concise way that is easy for anyone to understand.
Discover how to manually manipulate the jog wheels in order to temporarily adjust the tempo of your songs and how to combine those manual adjustments with full pitch adjustments so you can manually beatmatch your music. Shortee shows you exactly what to listen for to be able to tune your ears and how to determine if a track is playing too fast or too slow so that you are able to manually beatmatch any genre of music quickly and easily. She demonstrates these techniques with multiple genres of music while displaying how to use your ears exclusively. Shortee also uses DJ software as a visual example, so that you can see the adjustments affecting the sound waves in real time. You will learn how to perform multiple mixing techniques such as a simple blend mix and various EQ and filter mixing techniques, including the most important EQ mix that you will use often as a DJ. Shortee also shows you how to perform a drop mix, using the crossfader in conjunction with the volume faders, for use with quicker mixes, trick mixing, and songs with shorter phrasing, and then combines that technique with the EQ and the filter, showing you how to blend the frequencies between songs in a more efficient way for even smoother transitions during quick mixes.
“The Complete Guide to Beginner DJ Mixing with CDJs and a Mixer” is an excellent course for beginners who already have some basic skills under their belt or have taken Shortee’s prerequisite course “The Complete Guide to DJ Basics with CDJs and a Mixer.” This course is also perfect for intermediate or advanced DJs who are transitioning from another gear setup over to CDJs. This course also sets you up perfectly for the next course: “The Complete Guide to Intermediate DJ Mixing with CDJs and a Mixer,” in which Shortee teaches how to code your music, the basics of mixing harmonically, and how to create full mix sets, both planned and improvised. This information-packed course is part of the CDJ Series of Shortee's Complete DJ Method and is essential for building a strong foundation to take your skills to the next level.
Songs Used in This Course & Where to Find Them:
Shortee & Step 1 “Wax that Booty” (Bikini Wax Album—5 Star Records)--115 bpm
Fransis Derelle “Rocca” (Heavy Artillery Recordings)--128 bpm
Scary Fox “Subway” (Arkade Records)--128 bpm
WiseLabs “Minesweepa “Later Gator” (Heavy Artillery Recordings)--128 bpm
WiseLabs “Family Values” 1nvader Remix (Heavy Artillery Recordings)--124 bpm
Pawax “Shaolin” (Arkade Records)--128 bpm
D.E.P “Bikini Girls” (Heavy Artillery Recordings--110 bpm
Sharxpowa “Storm” (Heavy Artillery Recordings)--110 bpm