helo guys,
just wondering.

is trance really the hardest genre to spin? ive heard someone mentioned this. but im not sure if its true.

what about r&b? and drum n bass? are these two easy?

thanks.

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I would say trance is the easiest style I have spun. Although this might just be because it is the style that I primarily spin.

But for all music it's the same concept really, dont't hink it really varies difficulty wise

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I actually think the opposite. Trance is one of the easiest genres to spin.

Breakbeat is much more challenging than trance to pull off correctly

Just due to the structure of it, I'd say Breaks, Psy, and Drum And Bass are quite a bit harder. Hip-hop/Rap/RnB would be fairly easy, logically. Trance and House don't have much that would make then particularly difficult, until you get into harmonic or break mixing.

I would say that trance is one of the harder ones to mix. Just for the main fact that in trance you have long 1-2 min crossovers, and your beats have to be SPOT ON.. whereas Drum n Bass, Breaks, your beatmatching doesn't have to be as accurate.(still good tho), and from what I have heard Techno, is actually one the hardest to spin because it can be incredably hard to anticipate when a new phase is gonna kick in.

just my 0.02 cents

Cheers

i think drum/bass, reggae, and bhangra/hindi are the hardest to mix.

I mix all of these.

Theres a distinct difference between mixing and just beatmatching (which is what most peeps tend to regard mixing as )

garage+ drum n bass there is more cutting between them- not as long periods with both faders open and lots of scope for fine tuning in the mix. Lots of people can find pitching drum n bass hard tho

Hip hop + r&b there is more dropping in than any other genre and therefore not as reliant on matching pitch as others - although you can really stand out as a good hip hop dj by using skills learnt in other genres..and there is more scope for totally creative set programming within this area


Learn to mix all of them- more strings to your bow etc...


In terms of phrasing and using eq etc then theres not a lot of difference between any of the genres


hardest thing ive ever mixed was an aphex twin tune and a remix of bjork by funkstorung..... anyone who has the slightest idea what they are about then you will know what i mean

I will put it very easily :

Every style is easy to mix
Every style is difficult to mix great.

Basic mixing everyone can do, but it's the stuff that makes the mixes outstanding instead of just good that is the difficult part, like tune selection, flow, tricks,... And that's not really something you can learn like beatmatching, you got to have feeling for that.

i have a question then

how do u mix rnb tracks,...or hiphop

does it require beatmatching and all?

thank you for your answers guys

^^ and yes i think r & b /hh requires beatmatching also.

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Originally posted by Freak In terms of phrasing and using eq etc then theres not a lot of difference between any of the genres hardest thing ive ever mixed was an aphex twin tune and a remix of bjork by funkstorung..... anyone who has the slightest idea what they are about then you will know what i mean

That's insane man! I always tried to think of how I could mix an Aphex Twin tune into something else but it would be quite a pain in the ass...

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trance definately harder for me to mix thank house/prog is because of the faster bpm and the fact that many tracks don't have lots of intro/outro beats.