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Originally posted by everett I harmonically mix and it still requires you to know music because there are so many options when harmonically mixing not just the normal 1A to 1B or 12A or 2A, you can go +7 or +2 also I believe

+2 Is a major 2nd I believe....sooo I don't think that'd sound too fantastic

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Try this. When your mixing, start pulling tracks out that are going to possibly build up to a nice set thru the next 3-4 tracks, and take them and put them in the front of your binder in the order you think they should be played. Just understand that you will sometimes not end up playing these in the order you think they should go, because there are going to be some quick last minute decisions, sometimes. For instance, you have a track playing that you just mixed in, other track is finished. You should already have at least 2 tracks in the front of your binder that you pulled from different slots in your binder and moved them up to the first page of your binder cause you thought they would go well with the track you just mixed in. Even take 4 tracks that you think would work well together and move them to the front, or do more than that if you want. Just try to build with the placement of the tracks. Go somewhere with your set. Hope I explained this well. Its hard to explain sometimes. Try to stay a step ahead, if you know what I mean? Try to feel your music, too.

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Originally posted by Raveaddict19 +2 Is a major 2nd I believe....sooo I don't think that'd sound too fantastic

Depends if you're talking +2 semitones, +2 notes of the scale or +2 numbers in the Camelot scale - +2 notes of a (minor) scale (e.g. Cm to Ebm) is a minor 3rd, which does work in certain circumstances, normally when there's minimal harmonic content, but +2 semitones or +2 numbers on the Camelot scale would be a major 2nd, which would sound gash (that doesn't mean you can't mix it - just that you'd probably have to be pretty sharp with the mix and do a fair amount of EQing to avoid a clash).

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Originally posted by veezee *cough* beatmatch quicker *cough* Jay

+1

don't think too much into it, just go with the flow dude.

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Originally posted by Ministerio I think you pretty much summed me up. I'll have house tunes that I love...but then I'll have my favorite techno tracks. All I'm thinking is how to put them all together to make it work. (Even though there is no way to do that...at least for a one hour mix) What would you suggest...?

generally your techno tracks will go at the end because they are usually at a higher tempo & my flow is always from low to high tempo.

...so I end up with the house tracks (125-130) up front & finish it off with the trance tracks (130-140).

That's what I did with my latest tribal/progressive/trance set called "Fuze"...you can check it out at http://PatrickKroft.com

Regards,
Patrick

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