every day for a month (or more) i was on forums dj sites etc etc. my english wasnt that good so it was tough to understand the full meaning of the tutorials. anyways i had a cd table a mixer and my computer with tracktor 2.0 trying and trying for months to match the beats. i was close enough to learn with the cd player and a friend of mine calls me one day saying that he was with a guy i knew (he was my friends friend, hes a dj in a cheesy club) and he was coming at my place with a 1200 to mix and chill. once i got my hands on it i could almost make a transision. the guy said i could keep it till after chrismas. after 2 days i knew how to beatmatch 2 tunes for 16 bars without fucking the mix up. if i had 2 tables from the begining i think the time i had to practice(which was 2 and a half months) to be a able to make a 16 bar transision would be less than half. after all learning the art is easy but mastering it...

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Originally posted by djRocket I don't think this is a n00b question, just curious. How did all of you learn how to beatmatch? did you use the tutuorial given in this forum? Did you teach yourself?

take 2 copiesof the same record/cd and set the same pitch on both sides and try to hold it steady. thenext step is the bar system, 4,8,16,32 etc....

I learned it the hard way. 'phones on, records with different tempo.

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After a couple tutorials, I got the basics of how to do it.

By the way, John 00 Flemming's website has an excellent tutorial on DJing.

Also, I use the high hats in the song to beatmatch, easier than using the melody or the bass in my opinion.

practice.
practice.
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when you're done,
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see now i know everyone says that 2 copies of the same tune is the best way, but i don't see how. its a piece of piss because you can just knock it to the same place on the fader and you have it nearly there. that isn't what beatmatching is all about... its all about matching 2 tunes with different tempos :/

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it's because with 2 different tunes the first time you mix, it just sounds like chaos and you have no idea what's going on. with the same track, it's a little easier to understand.

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hmm, i knda see where you are coming from, but surely it would just be more confusing and less easy as a beginner to tell which one is going slower/faster? with 2 different tracks it should be easier to differentiate between the two should it not?

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yeah, i thought that same thing while i was posting it actually, it would be harder to tell which one is which. BUT, it would be easier to match them up, and know when they are matched. Also, it would be easier to learn phrase matching like this, as the structure of the record will be the same on both.

if you have the right two records, it's not bad, but if say for example a n00b DJ grabbed a house record and a DnB one, he's gonna have no chance!

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First I practiced with minimal trance, much easier to get going if it's not much going on. As I got better I started to play more of the stuff I really want to play, goa trance

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