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Originally posted by P`zazz you are right, but this desires a lot of work, you will have to sit down and calculate the tempo of all your prog tunes and wright it down on the sleeve so that you will know which is the faster stuff and whether you like it or not the last prog tune will be pitched way too fast and may sound crap

that's ghey... marking down the bpms is totally ghey. Stop djing P`zazz if you do so....

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Originally posted by Dj-Steve that's ghey... marking down the bpms is totally ghey. Stop djing P`zazz if you do so....

...erm, not sure if I agree with you on this one.

I've talked to a couple of prominent local DJs about this (I'll leave out the names), and they used to do similar stuff when they first started out. They would calculate all the BPMs, and plan out the entire set in advance.

Now they just spin various records as they go, with no two sets being the same. Point is, everyone starts somewhere.

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Originally posted by DJ Kibon ...erm, not sure if I agree with you on this one. I've talked to a couple of prominent local DJs about this (I'll leave out the names), and they used to do similar stuff when they first started out. They would calculate all the BPMs, and plan out the entire set in advance. Now they just spin various records as they go, with no two sets being the same. Point is, everyone starts somewhere.

Totally agree. When I started out, I would write out the number of phrases in the intro and outro to each track, on the record sleeve. This way I could make mixes that wouldn't end early etc. But now I just mix by "instinct" and by looking at the record grooves.

DJ Kibon is right! Everyone starts somewhere.

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Originally posted by Dj-Steve that's ghey... marking down the bpms is totally ghey. Stop djing P`zazz if you do so....

stfu steve, I don't do that but even if I did it makes no difference, a lot of great djs do it

You should stop djing because with your arogance and rudeness you are going nowhere

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Originally posted by Alccode Totally agree. When I started out, I would write out the number of phrases in the intro and outro to each track, on the record sleeve. This way I could make mixes that wouldn't end early etc. But now I just mix by "instinct" and by looking at the record grooves. DJ Kibon is right! Everyone starts somewhere.

Glad you agree. I'm just staring out into the scary world of vinyl now, after doing mixing on my computer for about 1 1/2 years.

I think I may end up calculating BPMs for each record initially, to give me a bit of assistance in determining which record is playing faster, etc. I don't see how that's a bad thing at all.

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Originally posted by DJ Kibon I think I may end up calculating BPMs for each record initially, to give me a bit of assistance in determining which record is playing faster, etc. I don't see how that's a bad thing at all.

And it's not, really. In fact, I believe you will get better faster by using little aids like that, than by being "cool" like Dj-Steve. In the long run, you will outgrow your aids, because you simply won't need them anymore. But in the beginning, they help out a ton!

Besides, whoever learned math by doing all the hard calculus first. Everyone starts at the 1+1=2 phase at one point or another.

feel the music , be lost in the mix and let the sounds guide you.