progressive is pretty tricky cuz sometimes the drum patterns get cluttered up....

but heres something i noticed when i started mixing

the faster the beat u play a set on...the easier it is to mix

so if u wanna practise..put ur songs really slow and just practise getting the beat right on even at a low pitch

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I can imagine breakbeat could be tough.

That's interesting. I always though genres with faster beats are a lot harder to mix.

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Originally posted by Wretched I can imagine breakbeat could be tough.

You're right, of all the genres I've tried mixing, breakbeats, are pretty much the hardest, although harmonic mixing is pretty hard in melodic trance cuz you gotta find tracks that are in the same key. I was talking to a dnb dj and told him I had respect cuz I assumed it was probably hard to mix it, but he disagreed and said trance is hard cuz there are so many elements to mix and beat juggling is not a big deal in dnb. I've tried mixing Dnb and it didn't seem as heard as straight breakbeats, I think it does have to do with speed, things seem a bit easier when they're above 140 bpm.

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Originally posted by Wretched I can imagine breakbeat could be tough.

its easy
matching the beat isnt too hard, just the first kick and the 2 claps or snares or whtaever they are. the hardest part might be the cueing, but if you know the songs well, the cueing isnt a problem, perhaps in the beginning it might be a hard concept for someone to grasp as far as matching beats if they are used to trance, but it takes practice of course

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Originally posted by Wretched I can imagine breakbeat could be tough.

From my experience as a breakbeat dj, its the easiest. breaks are sooo easy to mix because they can go off by a large amount, and still sound normal... drum and bass although seems really hard to mix is actually pretty easy, now i mean i can make a tight drum and bass mix, tight meaning sounding together, 2 Xs easier then a 4's.
my trickiest genre is progressive house... for reasons i dont know why.

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i find trance is more harder to mix then progressive.. so it has to be how fast the track is.

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house is easiest I would think

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IMO, house and progressive are easiest.

Uplifting/melodic trance, drum and bass/jungle, hip hop, are the hardest.

uplifting because keys need to match

epic/uplifting can be tricky because of there being so many keys used to make trance melodies and they can clash. prog, breaks and techno are all pretty simple to mix. and dnb is very easy to mix on the whole.

I think the hardest to mix by a long way is psy trance. there are so many added loops and extra bars added here and there that it can be very tricky

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having a broken beat doesn't make it hard to mix - breaks are easy cause of the above mentioned, even when it goes out you dont hear it as much as say prog etc

not to mention you can pretty much double drop dnb if a track has a shit intro / outro fun to mix.

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