Train Jah, train! Besides having good ears, the only other thing you would probably need at this stage of becoming a DJ would be preseverence and hard work.. the feeling will be sweet when you finally get one of those transitions in place, trust me!
Regarding the beats galloping too close together, that's where you would have to monitor closely between the headphones and the floor. As one TA has mentioned here before, DJs will always have the edge in spotting a potential trainwreck bfore anybody else on the floor because we're the dudes with the headphones!

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then i shall TRAIN! thankyou my good man for your kind words! lol
*puts on training records*

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man your trying to hard thats why ur doing train wrecks.. u got to feel the music,, listen to the beats and how the track is made up..select easy tracks at first,,dont try pulling off some crazy transition just before the breakdown,, when ur trying to bring ur record in dont just bang the fader across,, blend it in,, "Mixing" its not forcing..keep ur hand on the pitch be smooth with it..use ur fingers on the wheels to slow it down or bump it along to get the beat right...you listen to live sets all the time.. listen and learn.

just get a feel for ur decks.dont be scared ur gonna scratch ur records as u got SL's and they are good.. my friends would be scared to spin the record back and forth to find the beat .. find the spot then moving the fader in a lil and the channel volume a lil higher,, then slowly blend it in and hey u got it,, then hold it.. listen to it,, which track is picking up or slowing.. adjust the pitch.. then fade the record out...

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Hey Jah!

I've been reading your posts about getting your equipment and I saw this coming. Don't worry man! Practise, practise, get frustrated, get furious, do something else, get some sleep at night and come back the next day. Many times during the very beginning I noticed a big difference even between two days. It seemed as if every time I started a training session my ear had got so much sharper!

I don't know much about how an average human brain functions, but in my case I was learning the most while I was not on my tables. The first two weeks I suffered from a really tense jaw because I subconsciously thought about beats all the time and bit my teeth together...Damn that was painful to eat breakfast in the morning!

Take care,

Tommi

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dude, don't expect to be a superstar dj within weeks of getting your TTs...

it took me about a month to finally pull off a mix i liked
just practice, practice, practice...

get to know your vinyl and feel the beats, eventually you will nail your mix and feel awesome

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Just another question...I am soon going to be in Jah's position. Will practicing with vinyl ALOT wear down my first expensive records?

i dont' know why people think your records wear down that quickly
i mean yeah if you cut a dubplate onto some acetate for like $50 then yeah, it'll only last about 50 plays before it starts loosing its sound quality...but most records should last a long long time if you take care of them, don't use shitty needles and don't have the counterweight set to heavy


as for mixing when the beats are off
its hard to explain, but everyone probably knows what im talking about if you can beatmatch
when they start going off you can just tell which one it is because it either happens before or after the kickdrum coming out of the speakers, so they each have a distingtive sound (i.e. too fast or too slow)

you can't explain the sound (well at least i can't ) but it shouldn't take long to distinguish

also when you're adjusting a record don't just slow it down or speed it up by physically touching it...you have to move the pitch control accordingly or else they'll just go off again (and keep in mind that on techs, the slightest movement of the pitch effects the record...so if they're just barely barely off and you move it 0.1mm, it will make a difference and align the beats)

Just keep at it dOOd

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under normal wear and tear, a record should last about 2 years
you should have gone on to newer tracks by that point, if not...

when backqueing and stuff, use just the first few beats, that way any of the stuff that does play isn't noticably crappier quality wise

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quote:

I've been reading your posts about getting your equipment and I saw this coming. Don't worry man! Practise, practise, get frustrated, get furious, do something else, get some sleep at night and come back the next day. Many times during the very beginning I noticed a big difference even between two days. It seemed as if every time I started a training session my ear had got so much sharper!

ah thanx
thanx thanx thanx for all the help
in regard to wearing out your vinyl though i am a bit fanatical backcueing just seems like your fucking it up i mean pushing the records against the needle etc
sigh anyway

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Originally posted by deejay_naku I've been reading your posts about getting your equipment and I saw this coming.

LOL I know you meant no offense but darn this is funny.

Keep plugging away, Jah, I'm sure we were all worse off than you in beatmatching when we first got started.

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