Reason808

Hey Julia, I’m sure there’s some great tutorials on manual beatmatching but here’s what I’d suggest for a first-timer’s training plan:

1. Start with songs that have a fixed beat-grid first.
– Its hard to manually beat-match, you have to develop an expert ear to hear subtle beat-drift.
– Learn to hear the difference between two ‘fixed’ track’s tempo first
– Yes, this will probably take you away from disco, but there may be some early synth pop that could work.

2. Start practicing with two copies of the same “locked” song.
– Throw one off of Zero pitch and try to match the other song to to the tempo.
– Do this ‘blind’ – don’t look at the wave forms, tempo read-outs or even the pitch slider This forces your ears to hear the drift.
– Learn to recognize when a song is beat-matched but in the wrong phrase or slowly falling out of sync over time. Cue them from the same starting point and really, really listen for the drift.
– Try to keep the song going on as long a possible and mix it in useful phrases.

3. Then move to practicing beatmatching with two different “locked” songs.

4. When you’re comfortable with 1-3 and feel like you can ‘ride’ the faders manually, try some old-school disco with tempo drift.
– You’ll notice that bands will get excited as they head towards the emotional highs of the song and they’ll be a subtle speeding happening. A good example of this is the intro of the Bee Gees You Should Be Dancing.
– I remember Chic classics had really tight tempo

Hope this helps. Good luck.

“Who let the dogs out” won a Grammy. Seriously.

Glad you thought my comments were helpful. The relationship you describe sounds like a good one. I’d only suggest that you really think about what you mean by “I don’t want to be tied down.” That’s exactly what the manager wants from you. A misunderstanding about this could really mess up the relationship down the road. From the manager’s/label/biz person’s POV, they want commitment from you (or any artist) before developing business for you further. Why spend time developing a six month marketing plan if you will drop out on month 5?

To me Charlotte Noir sounds a bit glamorous, mysterious and a bit dangerous. Nothing wrong with that, but its definitely a different connotation than Glitter Bug.

I’m an American expat in Hong Kong. They have a huge scene out here. DJs get more publicity in the local press than bands. Its like New York City – no closing time and some nights go all night and into the next morning! Clubs regularly bring in big name DJs.

I haven’t had much time to go out dancing, but the one time I did, they were playing really cool house that wasn’t exactly underground, but certainly not commercial crap either. It was in a big club in the main district called Lan Kwai Fong that’s filled with bars, crowds and booming music everywhere. People are literally dancing in the streets.

I also went into mainland China (Shenzhen & Guangzhou) and I saw a club scene there too! Girls going to clubs in mini-skirts shorter and tighter than when I lived in Los Angeles! And the older people didn’t wait for a club to happen – couples were doing the cha-cha right on the streets in an open plaza!!

Another interesting thing is the lack of hip-hop and soul out here. It just doesn’t seem to have any roots in Chinese culture – traditional or modern. Its viewed more as a curiosity from what I can tell. Given all the complaints about commercial hip-hop on this forum, that might seem like a blessing, but I miss it. After three months out here, I heard an Angie Stone song and realized I hadn’t heard anything with that type of “swang” for months.

Interesting that most of the people in this thread are from the “West”: USA/Canada/Europe. There’s a small group from the Phillipines, and a few singular people from other countries. But nobody from China? Seriously? These guys are ready to boogie. 1.3 billion hips ready to groove!

I think dötzer is cool and has all sorts of potential! Dötzer is similar to “dots” and all sorts of meanings. Just some that come off the top of my head:
“connect the dots”
“dot, dot, dot . . .”
“dotted line”
“follow the dotz”
“polka dot”
“dot her”
“dot’s all folks!”

Okay, the last one is a bad pun. :-/
I don’t know your personality at all, but if you call yourself glitterbug you can’t be too pretentious.

The ö also could be a visual pun like somebody in shock: (:-0
or maybe pair them to seem like a turntable or something for a logo.

Where I live alot of bars dont want Hip Hop because of the “element that it draws.” Thats the new code phrase

Actually DJPossess, its not a new code phrase or tactic.
Sad to read that 20 years later people are saying the same old shit and using “white” EDM to push away black/latino people from clubs.