how long did it take you to get good at beat matching

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Posted by BTG on Jan-04-2004 23:54:

how long did it take you to get good at beat matching

i'm gona go pick up my tables somtime this week, and im just wondering how long does it take an average person from 0 knowledge to get decent (not perfect) at it?

Posted by Zzyzx on Jan-05-2004 00:05:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...light=beatmatch

Zzyzx

Posted by _Nut_ on Jan-05-2004 00:51:

It all depends on how well you can adapt to it and how much musical intuition you have. everyone will take different amounts of time.

Beatmatching, dependant on how much time you put into it per day, should take between 1-6 weeks to get the basics down with. Dont worry about transitions when you first start. Just master the basics then go farther as you improve.

It took me about 4 days to get basic beatmatching down. But Ive been around music my whole life (piano, trumpet etc)

Posted by Vero on Jan-05-2004 01:18:

ive been spinning for about 5 months, and ive only gotten good at beatmatching and transitions very recently. i think it also depends on how much you practice. i work full time and go to school full time, so i only get a few hours a week on my tables.

Posted by dieselatx on Jan-05-2004 01:22:

as long as you love the music you are spinning, it should not take long to beatmatch. i've only been doing it for 4 months and i can lock the beat rather quickly, i just need work on putting my transitions together. if you're spinning trance like i am, i think you should get it quickly, the all you have to do is fight with your mixer to make it sound right. good luck.

Posted by YellowG555 on Jan-05-2004 07:26:

It's all about practice! The more you practice, the faster you will pick it up. With me, I think it took around 2 months to beatmatch ok, but even now which is 12 months later, I still feel like I can improve on it.

I don't think there can be a perfect beatmatch because eventually 2 songs will drift. You just gotta get them close enough so that the beatmatch will hold during most of your transition.

Posted by Boomer187 on Jan-05-2004 11:42:

the suckiest part is how long it takes and how many times you listen to your first records. I am totally sick of hearing a few of mine.

but you'll also notice that you may think you get good after like 4-7 months, but record it and listen to it a year later and you will realize how much better you spin. So it is a neverending thing. you will keep getting better and better.

Posted by borron on Jan-05-2004 19:55:

It took me about 2 and a half months playing an hour a day to get a "live" transition, taking me about 2-3 minutes to reach a beatlock.
Nowadays, after 10 months, it takes less than 30 seconds

how and BTW, depeding on your tables, every few (15-60) seconds you'll have to correct the beat (pushing or pulling the record a little bit) - the shittier your TT's are, the more times you'll have to do that (also the shittier your beatlock...etc but that will improve).

Posted by BelgianGuru on Jan-05-2004 19:59:

I heared M.I.K.E. make a terrible mistake on Antwerp is burning, so I think we will just keep making mistakes once in a while

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Jan-08-2004 20:20:

there is no average person in this world.

I've let people get on my decks, that have never spun before, but have an ear for music.. and they've got a good match going thier first time. One cat even pulled off a nice transition his first time, but he's had experience mixing down live music.. just not on decks... so his ears know what to listen for.

it's all about training your ears.

some people pick up on it quick, some take a long time..

but regardless, it's a skill you will be improving for years. the faster and more accurate you can line up the beats, the more flexible you can be as a DJ!

Posted by Laszlo on Jan-09-2004 03:21:

Well, let me put it like this...it takes an hour to learn, but a lifetime to master.

But to answer your question, my beatmatching got "pretty decent" after a couple of months or training.

Posted by `pr0digy on Jan-09-2004 03:53:

2 weeks and counting... Only about 5 hours total of time behind the decks though, damn work.

Posted by Psygnosis on Jan-09-2004 05:39:

About a week, when i got my TTs i absolutely sucked so i gave up after like 15 minutes or so mixing, next day i sucked so i tried to think of how the hell it's possible to mix tracks, then i tried different methods in my head which took me about 3 days after getting the TTs. Each session i think was 20 minutes or less cause each time i fucked up it depressed me to quit try again later. So after i learnt the method of mixing, i applied it and it worked but the tracks werent sounding good. Next day, it just hit me and i had gotten the hang of it and was pulling off mixes which i was happy with.

I think you can pull off anything that you really want to achieve, at the stage where i was i was really anxious to get well and i concentrated. But then again everyones time to beatmatch will vary from their determination.

Posted by djshan on Jan-09-2004 14:45:

it took me like a year almost to understand the 4/4 beat thingy, before i used to just mix whenever i felt like, lol. but now i know wat im doing, after one year that is. also btg, where are you buying ur tt's from? i.e. dj depot, long and mcquade??