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  • September 4, 2013 at 1:53 am #43791
    Lamid45G
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    If its Pop, no problem, there’s tons of the extended mix out there for pop music,
    For Rock, i guess you can try the chop-mix route, long as you keep em under +/- 10 bpm rules you be fine

    September 4, 2013 at 6:10 am #43793
    NewportDJ Drew
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    Mixing rock is a different kettle of fish. The best trick is look at the ends of tracks. They either stab or fade. On a fade you start the new song at the point it would immediately drown out the fade. A stab finish requires precise cueing and split second timing to start the new track seamlessly. There is no beat matching in fact, beat matching is counter productive. Rock songs are incredibly selfish in that they want to be played from start to finish!

    September 5, 2013 at 1:46 pm #43821
    dj.andy.warhol
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    As far as for indie rock goes there shouldn’t be much problem, many artist use electronica elements in their compositions, which I can only assume may help you, just do a research, ask friends for some nice tracks, it shouldn’t so problematic, as for some kind of classic rock, I’m not personally fond of never tried, maybe as a samples or something.

    September 12, 2013 at 9:23 am #44063
    Klaus Mogensen
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    I actually often “beat mix” rock songs. Not the traditional way like I would do with EDM, but more by knowing primarily the start of the next songs well.

    I’ve uploaded a live Rock set I did a while back to SoundCloud, to show a few examples of what I mean. It’s not perfect by a long stretch (some RALLY bad scratching in there!), but should illustrate the idea: http://www.mixcloud.com/klausmogensen96/old-school-rock-mix-2013/

    Example of using the drums of the next song: 4:09
    Example of using a drum fill of the next song: 17:08
    Example of using the Guitar lick of the next song: 7:41
    Example of using the vocals of the next song: 15:27

    And the “cheats”
    Doing a little hot cue tapping: 1:22:27
    Using a sample: 29:15

    Since the songs are not perfect in time (they are played by real drummers for the most part), I do wave-ride a lot – which means that I wouldn’t be able to do this in Traktor. But Virtual DJ and Serato does this well

    I hope this gives you a few ideas

    Best regards
    Klaus Mogensen

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