Anyone else have visualizations that they do in their head to facilitate beat matching? I like to picture 2 dancers and then have them dance at the same speed. Anyone else do concepts like this?

I like to visualize the lights in my mixer and fantasize of hot women getting it on with each other and other thngs.

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it is sort of an automated unconscious thing. Not really something you think about when you know how to do it. I guess it is like driving standard. At a certain point, you can ride either pitch fader and nail it in seconds. I would think resorting to images somewhat distracting.

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it's like an instinctive thing after a while.

but for begginers trying to initially match the beat, like trying to grasp the concept.

imagine trying to find a book in a book shelf, books filed alphabetically.

say you are looking for a book starting with L.

you take a random guess...

and it's a book starting with B; look ahead. G; getting closer... big leap ahead, S; fuck, too far. dial back, M; nearly, go back still. K; fuck overshot again.

until you home in on that L.

apply that, with the technique of beat matching itself, where you compare the beats with each other.

you sync them up, wait for it to gallop, slow the platter down.

A. did it sync up again? then the pitch was too fast, as you had to slow it down. action = slow the pitch down

B. did it gallop even further when you slowed down the platter? then it was already running too slow. action, speed up the pitch.

rinse and repeat.

not sure if this will make sense

as george clooney says, you ride that shit. after a while, you will instantly know if your incoming record is too fast or too slow - you'll adjust the pitch to a fairly accurate position, then you will chase the beat by platter manipulation and changing pitch at the same time, until it's matched without platter manipulation, then you know you're at the right pitch.

it's fairly overthinking it though, for what is an insticntive thing once 'it clicks'.

mosts newbies get lost, and don't reset the record after the intro is finished. sometimes trying to match when one record doesn't have a beat

Last edited by rubez on Feb-20-2013 at 11:51

There's a whole sub-forum for this.

http://tranceaddict.com/forums/foru...hp?s=&forumid=8

It's just sort of instinctive for me, but when trying to illustrate what beats, and matching them, looks like to DJ tutoring pupils, I draw 4 equilateral triangles, tilted on their sides, so the the flat side is facing directly left, and a point is aimed directly at the flat side of the triangle preceding it.

I then tell them that the top and bottom points on the left end of each trinagle represent the high end, the snappy parts of the kick drums, and the right point, the tail, and the central part of the triangle, represents the longer bassier part of the kick.

And then I draw a second row of the same types of triangles, and offset their position on the paper a bit, to show them what a NON matched beat looks like. Then I draw then a whole new pair of triangle sets, where both rows are perfectly matched up. That's a beatmatched kickdrum pattern.

Then I play them the audio representation of that (I made 2 15 minute long pure 4/4 kick drum tracks @ 135 bpm), and tell them to keep that triangle idea in mind, and to make the snappy parts line up.

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I wonder what someone would have to imagine for tonal mixing?

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Originally posted by Trance-MB I wonder what someone would have to imagine for tonal mixing?

Colors bro.

i just imagine myself taking a shit, because when i'm motivated to take a shit i can cue and play in seconds.

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weirdest thing i've heard, you just get into the rythm and things fall into place it's really instinctive, when you are in this particular "trance" you just move the platter and the pitch without knowing why but you know yu are doing it right

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Originally posted by Guest Colors bro.

Grapheme Synesthesia?

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