DJ LESSON ADVANCED BEAT MATCHING TUTORIAL, HELP WITH GETTING THE BEATS SPOT ON BY DJ TUTOR

I'm at a bit of a loss... I understand the concept of beatmatching. But this video hasn't helped me in slightest. Everyone is so different in explaining. I understand the pitch but can you explain between the sounds when you touch to slow it down or turn it to make it skip a beat to get it in beat? Hope I'm making sense.. As in if you was mixing with vinyl. which is what I'm starting with 😍.

Thanks a ton!!!

that was no joke omg .. crazy

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O M G. Finally a tutorial that gets to the point instead of telling me about next doors cat and stuff I have no interest in Haha. I am 54 and I am learning how to mix as a hobby. Used to Dj in the 80s a little but when it was mainly fading out one track and bringing in another.

cheers brother

hi

Just making sure I understood this correctly. Use an old track that varies its tempo and then attempt to beatmatch a 4 4 beat modern track to the old track?

Hey there I have a little question :D

Wich Pitch Rate do you use?
6 -/+
10-/+
16-/+

I just really started mixing and initially picked up a cd mix 1 from Gumtree for 50 pounds. I decided after a couple of months to upgrade to a cd mix usb for 350 and whilst it's no where near as good as these pioneer decks (because I can't afford them ha) I'm finding these videos very helpful and really interesting.

thanks for taking the time to share your advice man :)

Thank you EllaSkins, Your tutorials are always amazing and have helped so much (and continue to) with my own career. Being a mainly digital DJ (I really like the extra capabilities of the high end controllers) and starting to get some serious bookings I have returned to learn to manual beat match (it's an easy skill with CDJ beatcounters) as it is a fundamental skill to have and I have noticed I am listening harder which means I am hearing my tunes better.
This would be the best tutorial for practising I have seen...Many thanks again for sharing your wealth of knowledge

hey Jonathan love all your tips and vids I need a bit of help I love all my oldskool hardcore most of the new stuff has gone 2 commercial sum of it is good but not much need sum help understanding how 2 mix all the old happy hardcore classics like Scott browns now is the Time so on so on any help will b much appreciated

mushing up..

Spin on bro...this one is a big help for those who really wanna know beatmatching. Do you have tutorial on your own style of mashing up bro?

I remember on 1210s I mastered mixing by play one track with the turntable on and the other with the play start not pushed . So I basically use to get the speed using my hand as the motor then master keeping it in . It was a good trick to learn .Another was play a live tape and mix 2 toons to that tape as best you could .always push boundaries and exercise the brain .but I do remember entering the worst nightclub ever in dover and it was massive and had no monitor speakers and pure bass coming from under a hollow stage and vibration was pumping through my feet and the main speakers were dotted around the club so far away I was getting the worst time lapse ever and I clanged the hell out of mixes and that smashed my confidence being young and wasn't till you play a descent venue you realise it was not realy down to me .still have nightmares about that 25 yrs back . Jumped up played someone else's set because they were ill as a favour and didn't know none of the toons no light in the booth all the buttons had been stolen I mean all. Anything that come off a cross fader that was selataped to the middle. I think that guy pulled a sick one thinking about it. But you learn i use to take extra slipmatts, own needles, mini torch and a mini lamp that clipped to my record bag .never go unprepared now and even try to check a venue beforehand. Even ask other djs who have played there if possible. But I was so confident and did I get knocked on my backside that horrible night.

I beatmatch using a hotcue, which is set on the first beat. I start the incoming track and compare the speed of the incoming track with the outgoing track. I the adjust the pitch. Then I restart the incoming track using my hotcue and repeat the beatmatching process till it's right. I am satisfied when the beats are aligned for a minimum of 8 bars.
For me this works. However, sometimes you still have to adjust some when doing the transition (just as mentioned in this video).

Any comments on this way of beatmatching?

good

Sync and BeatGrid is the truth

i think the guy asked why ellaskins doesn't go to tomorrowland along with dj's like david guetta, etc.

what was the comeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeent ?

who the hell is bert?

Funny enough before this I was watching his tutorial: "How to beat mix , without touching the platter" from 2006. /watch?v=7zC5W5vfW2o&list=TLA-9vshvEOH0 same concept. 7 years ago.

he has a HD cam, its his internet that's slow so he cant upload HD!

i like his clips but he needs a hd cam to see wat he does better!!

the coolest DJ ever.

You're right about the pitch drift on modern kit....my old denon dns3500 would fluctuate +\- 0.2 it was a right PIA.

You are an excellent Dj and teacher!

excellent excellent lesson. you made it so simple. great teacher.

Can we all just take a moment and agree that ellaskins is the greatest thing that's happened to DJing since... well I don't know, but without him I would still be back doing nothing but cross-fading between tracks with the occasional loop. You're the man, and your passion is amazing!

@ ellasskins love your channel & thanks for all the vids. iv found them to be really useful. take care mr......;-)))

Okay but the thing here is, both of the songs started directly with the beat/kick, how do master this when one song starts calm non-beat/kick?

for me its way, way easier on Technics.

@ellaskins first iwant to say I enjoy your videos and that they help me learn alot of new and kool tips/techniques and I want to thank u for putting these tuts together. I managed to get my hands on a pair of minty technics 1210's...BUT one of them has a major problem that makes beat matching impossible. when I move the pitch slider on the turntable the speed fluctuates, iread that some people call it wobbling pitch. My ? Is have you experienced this or know what could be causing the problem?

Great Vid Thanks

Hope you washed you're hands after the craper!! ;-)

There's plenty of DJs that don't know how to beat match or aren't quitee advanced enough in their beat matching to ride the pitch through an entire mix and keep two tracks with a human drummer. Controllerists are considered DJs and very few of them know how to beat match,many of them might know the theory ehind it but have never done it. By the way if you had actually read the comment i said that many djs underestimate the importance of the skill and rush into their first gig unprepared.

My sincerest apologies!

This gets 10x harder when you take it to a non-digital pitch-fader, for e.g. on standard Technics! Even after a romantic evening in with a multi-meter, my Technics' pitches still aren't perfect... nor symmetrical!

Beat matching is a core DJ skill I learnt from the very start. This video explains it very well. There are loads of tracks out there with jumpy bpms u need these tricks to stay on top of em.

Lol, u said tomorrowland. Mainstream bullshit with just a bunch of fireworks and some acting....oh and there is some music maybe...

dick got stuck in the fan

i love beat matching, its just a real skill

Oh thank you masterful one :) love these tutorials soooo much and extremely helpful :)

you mean he killed all the sync DJs...

was joking yo

when i use controllers and serato i only use the sync if i need to quick match tempo, but i still line up beats by ear.

because tomorrowland is a mainstream festival.

That's what we call beatmatching ;)