How To BEATMATCH? Beginner To Expert Level!
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It's been a little while since I last uploaded a more technical DJ tutorial! Today I'll show you how to beatmatch! Beginner to Expert 🎛
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Great video! As a legally blind DJ, I can’t see the waveforms. So, I am always beat matching by ear. This skill is extremely crucial when I’m playing on CDJs with unanalyzed files because Rekordbox, unfortunately, lacks screen reader support. So, I believe that every DJ should learn how to beat match by ear just in case if technology decides to not work properly at an event.
that is very impressive
@@Mr.Thermistor7228 There's nothing impressive about doing something the tried and tested way. Not that I am putting the DJ down.
i’m always impressed when a person achieves a task while not taking the easiest route like learning to drive on a MT rather than AT or mixing without modern tech. Not to mention the op over came their visual disability to pursue a passion in dj-ing. Well done.
kis4ketchup it’s equally impressive that someone that’s blind can navigate, use, and comment on RUclips. Guys a champ
Music is consumed by hearing and feeling the vibrations. Therefore, any piece of music technology that cannot be operated by another sense, besides vision, should not exist.
Holy shit... i've been learnig to mix for almost two years now, never found a tutorial as simple as that going into the absolute essentials of "old school djing", it feels like what i'm supposed to do finally clicked! Thanks for no skipping the obvious. Precious
Epic!. I have been mixing since the 1980s & I still love practicing beat matching without the sync. I usually only use sync when I am recording a set for my radio show. It's all fun for me. Nothing wrong with using sync, nothing wrong with mixing manually. I just have fun & I keep on learning new things. It's all gravy.
Love ya. Luke! You are one of the good guys out here. Be safe & be kind!
Do you remember those electric pens that used to hurt when pressed, well I stripped one down for a laugh and wired it to my controller sync buttons.. So one night during a party we were having I let a couple of friends take over for a bit, you should of seen their faces when there pressed the sync button what a laugh, best night ever.
Damn those poor sync users
That’s so evil, I love it
Brilliant, short and sweet tutorial. It's all about loving music, practice and of course loving what you do too.
I know that I'll probably never need it but I'm really curious to find out how all of this works. Just to know what DJs are doing and what they're actually capable of when I'm watching their live sets. This video was extremely helpful.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO MAKE THIS VIDEO. THESE ARE GREAT TIPS I WILL DEFINITELY BE PRACTICING. 🎧😎🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is great for wrapping my head around beatmatching by understanding it in different ways. Thank you!
Luke this a huge milestone for me, I was spinning vinyl at clubs in the 90s and early 00 but got out of it twenty years ago. I believe we did a gig in leiden together many many years ago at InCasa, so great to see where your career brought you. I made some different life choices i guess. My interest in djing suddenly got back, and now I see they even have bpm counters and sync buttons. Omg I feel old. I remember driving around with my case full of illegal cd's that was the innovation then. Got some catching up to do with the tech hehehehe
Unrelated to djing but he seems like such a nice, wholesome guy
I have always been a big fan Luke I do have your course but iv been busy with producing but cant wait to watch it .
It took me a full year to be able to beat match by ear using just the fader in that last example you gave. Worth the patience, coolest feeling ever! I DJ just for myself, I like doing it but I dread playing in front of people lol
Thank you so much for dropping so much of valuable information!! ❤️🙏🏻
Brilliant Video. I love that your pushing releases from your record label!
Glad you are back to your tutorial videos. I wouldn't have started playing my gigs when I did, if it wasn't for your tutorials.
The vinyl nudge sound effect you made was great 😂. I love your tutorials! Please keep making them, because they have helped me improve so much and I love learning from you.
Laidback luke you are
my inspiration you
inspired me to
become a dj i am a
huge fan of you and i
respect your dedication
to your work..
Love the vibes selector Luke.
Thanks for the great tutorial, Luke. Both the Manual and ‘Sync’ beat-matching methods have their place. For me, using Sync frees us up to be more creative in other areas when the rally car is cruising along nicely, but when you hit the rough terrain of, say, a tricky track that didn’t get analysed well by the software, then we can quickly switch back to manual to take control and get safely around those bends.
it's exactly like that. Very good lesson for all the beginners outhere
Thank you for this Mr. Luke ❤️ we love you ❤️
Been djing for almost 40 years and the pich mixing,yes i still got it. Hade to try it after de video😊. Havent done that for years.
Real Djing amazing man!
THANKS A LOT LUKE FOR THIS HELPFUL VIDEO 🙏
Great stuff! I've used that exact looping technique to practice beatmatching; I'm a huge fan of learning how to do things yourself even if there's a button to automate it, because it never hurts to have a deeper understanding. But it turns out that beatmatching is also really fun, so I just don't really do sync DJing.
I have always wondered how the old guys did it using vinyl and thanks to you mr Luke I have an idea. I wil start practising this so much and I cannot wait to see myself fumble over my controller and the neighbours complain... This is one of the techniques that can make me unique.. Thank you so much. Stay safe!! I always get impressive results with LAidback Luke. From Lesotho!
Thanks for sharing, super awesome lesson. Mixing way better, now i learned it the old school way!!
Keep doing it learned a lot from you
You make it look so easy bro, this was really helpful, thank you!
Loved the matching with the lights as a preview! audibly, it was sooo hard to determine if the track i was mixing in was ahead or behind to determine push or drag.
Thank's Luke, I like the way you teach us, that's awesome
Man, would've loved to have seen something like this tutorial video when I was first learning how to beatmatch on a pair of Denon DN-S1000s 15 years ago (and no sync button then)! Thanks for sharing this!
Great tutorial as ever Luke. Looking forward to the day we can all play out properly again
Awesome lesson and thank you for sharing your tips 👍 👍
When the sync button doesnt work then you need to beat match by ear and also like you say its a rollercoaster ride... 😍😍.... Love it...
Or you can just adjust the bpms normally 😂 with the tempo slider and make sure you drop it in on the 1
Thank you I loved this!
Absolutely delightful thanks 👌💯
I'm a beginner and I can tell for sure tha's one of the best video on youtube to explain beatsmaching, the explanation a clear and what I like is that even for basic things that seems obvious you explain them
man, the tutorial that i'm looking for!
I love spinning on vinyl because beat matching by ear is so much fun.
Exactly espacially on vinyl!✌🏼
Love you Luke.
great vlog luke :)
Excellent
Love it
Love it man it helps alot
This helped me so much !! Thanks !!🥳
Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much for sharing ♥️♥️♥️
Nice tips bro! Very useful
I learned it without touching the platter, only using the pitch as he taught in this video. Great tutorial for everyone at any level.
Going to practice it this weekend. Got on to mixing during quarantine, trying not to lean on tech instead train my ears. Thanks for this tutorial, Luke!
Training your ear is the best way to do, honestly. 👌🏽
Nice video with great explanation ✌️
Cool I'm gonna try this when I get home. Thank you sir!
Thanks For The Video Mr. L.L.
Greetings from México! 🇲🇽 You are the BEST ♥️🔥🔥🔥
This guy is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Thanks for the lesson
A few seconds in, I love u dawg ❤️🙌 I will learn this all, I love learning hard stuff and fine tuning stuff 😎😍
Hi Luke. Thanks for all of your tutorials! I used to dj back in the days of vinyl and I recently picked up a Denon Prime 4. The sync button is OK but I run into a ton of problems with psy trance and drum and bass tracks, particularly when there are triplet beats. The BPM's are wrong 80% of the time and because of how the tracks are structured the grid is usually way off so the only choice I have is to use old school methods. I remember riding the fader back in the day and pushing/dragging the platter! Brings back memories! DJ's today have it EASY! lol. We had no data to work with other than our ears. While the sync button is great to have for say, Big Room Bangers and structured tracks like house, techno, etc, I think in order to be a great DJ, you have to be able to mix anything at any time with your ears! I just did an off the cuff set of Big Room (which easy easy) and then I got into psy trance and had to get really creative in mixing / beat matching because I was spinning random tracks I was grabbing from beatport and didn't know the BPM's or even the sound of the tracks until I loaded them into the Prime 4. Tracks that are 144bpm were marked as 108 and tracks marked as 155 were 142. It was an interesting challenge! I say: take it to the next level and learn to mix by ear. It's the only way to be limitless in your track selection and get all "pockets" of the crowd hyped up (a reference to one of your other videos lol). Cheers!
This was a great tutorial! 👍🏾
Master of the decks!
I love the rough mixing, and adjusting the pitch on the fly. It sucks me into the mix as someone in the crowd. I love the comparison to a rally driver. It really is just about going for it, and figuring it out as you go.
Thank you
Great video
thanks for teaching beat matching
It’s like , driving a manual car . You are driving the car ,changing gears , pushing clatch pedal, so this feeling is kind of tasty for you , plus you look like more professional and it’s good . Luke , really happy to see your video ! Fight 👹
Great video. The other reason why we used to ride the pitch is because we had belt driven turntables and they used to skip if you breathed too heavily let alone put our hands on the platter lol
Awesome tips
Nice!!!! Great video!
It's never to late to learn more skills day by day I truly enjoy the video
I liked your demonstration it was very nice. I am doing dj course now i was struggling for beat match, thanks for teaching easiest technics
very helpful
Soo good 🔥👏
thank youuu laidback
I imagine beat matching by ears vs auto sync is like driving a car with stick vs auto
Don't want to start that endless sync discussion but nowadays for the sake of creativity and losing less time, when using more than two decks, I would definitely give SYNC a go even if I can easily master all the expert tehniques.
To conclude, I consider that the most fair way of using sync 🙏
Wow those Denon decks are SLICK! Nice to see something besides Pioneer. Love the logo in the centre of the jog wheels.
This is wat I'm after thank U heaps kind sir legend
Ayos! Ang galing!
AMazing tutorial !!!!
Simply stop looking at the music and start listening instead...
Amazing content! Thank you🙏
Wow, what a sound tooooooo
Thanks for the video Luke, I liked the part when you beat matched by ear. I’m going to try the tape thing.
After watching ❤️❤️❤️❤️ so much love 🙌 I've been making DJ mixes for a while but with best sync, been needing that push to learn for real 🤝 my philosophy is if someone else can do it so can I, and i may not be the best, but I definitely won't be the worst 🧐😆
Wow man. As well as being a fantastic instructor... You really are "Laid Back"! I guess that's why you're you the GOAT. :-D
great video
Cats who do it the old school way are beast mode on the decks.
For me, using the sync button is like losing control over the mix. I wanna be in control and also I wanna be the one who is responsible if the beat is a little off....
Good shout. Agreed!
before i bought the prime 4 i used cdj1000mk3 there was no sync button. now with prime 4 i still dont need sync.
Agreed, I love the accountability of doing it all yourself!
EJAY that is why I still like CDJs... they feel a bit more old school and sync isn’t as in your face (seems like that to me anyway, vs controllers)
sync can be very useful if you have a 4 channel controller and have to switch between decks 1/3 and/or 2/4 or want to sync it with a sampler or other midi devices for example
Thanks luke🔥🔥🥺: Learnef A lot
Learned alot*
what a technique ! its so dope & so excitin' thank you so much ......... God _Bless
9:33 for the pro level
12:43 for the expert level
I was all about visual beatmatching using DJ software, until I got to a club with cdj2000, no sync, no beatgrid... had to unlearn in order to learn properly, piece of advise to all the youngsters watching, peace!
That’s what I’m scared of haha if only I had some CDJ’s to practice with 🙄
Notes to self:
level 1 (not very fun, gets the job done though)
look at screen >
match old tracks bpm with new track >
press play at the perfect moment >
make small adjustements with wheel
level 2 (this method is way too much fun, feels way more like you are in the music compared to 1)
loop and play new track >
keep the beat in sync with the wheel >
use the pitch slider so you can stop pushing / pulling the wheel
level 3 (not tried this yet, but will soon)
loop and play new track >
use pitch slider to speed up / slow down track
interesting thing about 3 compared to 2 is how you can have one hand free to do other stuff while syncing the beat. 3 is simple but elegant.
Pitchriding is absolutly necessary if you want to be confident to play vinyl in any club, because some still use technics 1210 mk2. The mk2 have a quartz lock which makes it super hard to nudge and drag. i remember visiting a friend after i just learned to beatmatch on my stantons 150´s and was loosing my mind on his technics hahaha.
Been waiting for something like this Luke, missed you uploading videos to teach us stuff. Keep it up
Hello there Luke my pinoy Brotha , My name is Roger from Chi town (Roger da mixologist aka dj oldskoolroge Ride the Pitch Show). I’ve been a big fan of yours for over 8 yrs! Whoa how time flies. The way you handle yourself as a Producer, DJ remixer, Family man and Of Course Pinoy Represent. I salute you. Natural Disaster is still one of my favorite jam to drop in the mix.
Anyway I like the way you covered the Topic Ride the Pitch, I’ve been mixing for over 36 yrs, yes music will never get old especially if you enjoy the Art of Mixing… Matching… Measuring and Riding the Pitch in Real Time. For me, this what gives that Natural High in music when mixing the Groove.
Learning the Fundamentals of matching.. Mixing.. Measuring and Riding the Pitch on a Belt drive Technics SL B21 back in the days, with a real drummer on dance Groove, Definitely paid off. You then appreciated the Birth of Technics 1200 Direct Drive. Oh yeah what a difference. No more nudging the record for me, just and Ride the Pitch. This is one main key that DJ’s forget to talk about the Technics Direct drive revolution, It changed the way we Mix the Groove, it’s not just for scratching, the Pitch Control is dead on smooth when you ride the pitch IN THE Mix. No more nudging or holding the pin in the middle of the platter. You are correct, there were no master tempo then. Pitch control movement is very important.
I believe this is one of the missing key.
If you give someone a map of a Forest, what good is the map if you don’t know where you are at? Many Dj’s today do not understand which way to go when that beat mix starts to go off. ( Shoe Dryer Mix ). You either you go forward, backward or stay on your pitch. If you master these fundamentals you will have a better understanding where to go and avoid the Shoe dryer affect. You will be able to tell on the first note as you as you drop that needle in the mix which way to go. And of course there are technique how to learn, master and understand this method. And as you progress to today’s mixing style and new Dj gears. You will experience a better understanding and appreciate more the digital world has to offer.
I learned to understand the difference and the transformation from regular Dj to a Hot Mixer DJ. Back in the days dance music is just music that makes you dance, But if you mix it.. blend it and Ride the Mix with another Hot groove then the Groove develops the Natural high that HOUSE music gives. That’s why House music It’s a feeling. Not everyone mixes the same .I respect everybody’s way of Mixing and for me Riding the Pitch is my choice. But people still need to understand the difference. Keep up the good work ma Pinoy Brotha.
Peace Love and Music,
Dj oldskoolroge
Great stuff, thanks refreshing these basics we all ought to master oh so perfectly, but unfortunately often renounce in favor of the notorious sync button...
Easy way I found to explain how beat matching works to begginers,is with 2 cars on the high way,gotta put them side by side,so they must have the same speed,and one will need a push to get next to the other or vice versa.
Master Tempo,Quantize,Key Lock,help a lot to mix in key and to change the tempo of a music with vocals without making the singer to sound like Mickey Mouse or Darth Vader if we increase or decrease the tempo.
Sync can be handy,but it isnt always accurate,tracks that can have different tempos also have different compass,time signature or beat grid!If a guy doesnt know to beat match by ear,wont notice if the tracks have different beat grids.
Love to see your videos and your technic under a microscope ;)
Cheers from Portugal.
Laidback Luke & Domastic- U Don't Is so fire
Awesome tutorial once again! When I started off mixing 5 years ago, the sync button was handy for a beginner, but now I don't touch them at all because it's much more satisfying to beat match by ear. I'm curious Luke, what's your opinion of key lock? So that the slider only adjusts tempo and doesn't also bend the pitch. I find it useful when mixing tracks with prominent vocals so it feels more cohesive and people hear the vocal they're expecting, in the right key, even if it's played at a faster or slower BPM.
Both beatmatching by ear and sync have their place. Some songs weren't written or performed by a computer, or don't have any beat correction applied in post- Sync will never handle those properly, not without extensive preparation work with Ableton or other modifying software. Developing the brain skill to ride the tracks (especially when the drummer goes loopy or the composition beats change) is an incredibly valuable skill, and opens entirely new arenas of songs to play during sets. That being said, if you *are* using computerized tracks, freeing up extra time or brainpower to work FX, samples, or more creative mixouts can be a benefit of using Sync where possible. Use sync to free up your hands to the limits of your creative mixout ambitions.