Dj workshop
30/09/2011
On Friday we learnt how to do Beat mixing. Beat mixing is when you get two songs and mix them together, you have to change the tempo of the songs so that they run at the same time and so that the songs are in tune with eachover. Its best if the two songs already have the same kind of tempo, if a song is 120 and one is 155 you have to move the tempo qiute and keep on starting the song again and again to get it just right.
Compared to the cross fading that we did last week, Beat mixing is definatly much more difficult. Even after two hours of trying to mix two songs myself i still found it very hard at the end, and i still haven't quite got the grasp of it. Its not so much that i don't know what I'm doing because i do, its just actually being able to do it that's the problem. Nigel makes it look so easy, but he told us that it takes years and years to perfect beat mixing.
I don't know how I'm going to be able to do the assessment in two weeks because I need a lot more practice. Hopefully ill do weel though.
