Blending With Copies

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What's up? This is DJ Colione on behalf of expertvillage.com and in this clip I am going to show you how to get in and out of blends because when you are doing a blend you are using both turntables. You don't really have another turntable to cut to another song until you got to be quick and you got to be on point and know what you are doing and kind of have a plan. So the easiest way to do a blend is to use two copies of a song. So you have on one turntable the actual song and on the other turntable you have the same song but you have the instrumental. Now you don't have to do it like this but this is just kind of an idea to make it really smooth and seem what you get is the general goal of a DJ. You just want to be clean and smooth with all your mixes. So what we are going to do is we are going to play the song as it is with the lyrics and we are going to cut to the instrumental. Now you can either do this with a mix, you can do like a 4 or 8 count mixer. Whatever you want you can do a cut, you can do any sort of mixing technique that you want to jump from the song playing to the new instrumental. After that what we are going to do is we are going to try and get our record which is standing by on the side with the acapella on it as fast as we can on this turntable so we are not waiting a minute and half just hearing instrumental going when is some music going to start or some lyrics going to start. Right. So we are going to do an example of this. We are going to play a song, cut to this, jump the acapella on this turntable as fast as we can and we are going to hopefully if we do it right, the blend is going to work for us. So we have this song, we have the instrumental in this song and you want to mix at the appropriate place, right? We switch real quick, we need to cue up the acapella point in our headphones so we know where we are and we have it set. So there we go, we started a blend ready to take one song playing, keep that instrumental going and play out a new blend to it. To get out of this blend you can simply stop the record, if you will pull back and from that, you can jump to whatever new song you want because you just have this record playing it. Again, you don't want to take too long. You want to grab another record as fast as you can, find whatever you want to play, cue it up and you are on your next mix. That is using two copies to get in and out of a blend.

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