The worst part of my mixing is track selection, is their a technique to ordering the tracks i select and which tracks i select, or is it just listening to them over and over again?

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Try mixing harmonically. I think there is a sticky topic detailing the process.

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thats not really gonna help him putting a decent set together though is it

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Why not? I bet if his track selection is poor many of his transitions are clashing harmonically.

Other than that, I don't really know how to help someone except to say don't play a funky house track, followed by a trance anthem, followed by a prog track, followed by a ghetto tech track, although that should be fairly obvious.

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I think putting a mix together is down to persoal choice. I tend to start of pretty progressivly and build it up to a more uplifting trance or tech trance.

But i have also heard mixes its just falls into the 'trance' genre and in no particular order at all, an it is still sound good.

I think the more you lisen to your tracks you may get a more personal preference to your track selection for your mixes

track selection and order...depends on what you like, how many genders of music you like and most important your library of music (may they be vinyl or cds)...

some djs just stay within one, they love trance...so they play within trance...slower, faster, progressive...and so on...
other likes tomi mass and other (i can't think of more names right now) love to jump between things...figure out your own way...it is up to you how you blend them in and what kind of songs you put together...

there's nothing stoping you from droping a funky house song after a more regular beat song...i guess this will become an easier choice once you get a feeling for your crowd

if you like to change genders of music doing progressivly not abruptly (as in different type from song to song)...do it more on a slower transition and try to find something in common between the song (like a similar base, or sound...)

that's my $0.02 on it, make up your own style

dude, seriously your asking other people what tracks you should select? whats the point of even djing?

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i know how to put them together, i was just wondereing if their was a technique of getting songs to blend better. Obviously its as i thought, just down the listening to the songs and finding similarities between them.

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read up on harmonic mixing. if you key your records, and write the key of each on the sleeve, for instance, it can be a great guideline for hwen you want to pick your next track. i'm into the idea of harmonic mixing, but i also love being able to control my set however i want, without having to go with guidelines, so i have yet to submit to it.

however, when i've done harmonic mixes by just picking tracks, it sounds a-fucking-mazing, so i'm starting to lean towards the idea of going into it.

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I don't know if I am hearing this but it sounds like your not satisfied with the transitions in your sets. I have been DJing for 6 months now and when I read the harmonic mixing thread it really helped me a lot. If you want your mixes to sound great then I suggest you develope an understanding of music theory, in this case harmonics. Every DJ picks his/her records out by their individual taste, obviously, so I wouldnt say it's your track selection. I dont think that harmonic mixing will totally change how good you will become but it will certainly help. Thats basically all I can tell you but also know your records too.

I find it easier to classify my songs as peak, build up and boring. I can't really think of a better word than boring, but they are cool tracks that don't make you jump around. and from there I build my set. I vary from the peak, to the boring to the building...and on and on.



so to me, it depends on how many effective categories you can place your tracks in. and I don't mean genres, I mean categorise them by how they make you feel.

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Originally posted by Light The Fuse dude, seriously your asking other people what tracks you should select? whats the point of even djing?

relax, the kid is just trying to understand how tracks should flow together and not for you to do if for him.

you should be aware of each songs energy and build a set from that. You wouldn't want to put a huge trance track at the beginning of a set. Also you want the songs to be of the same genre, generally. So funky house and prog trance probably wouldnt work together.