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Best way to change BPM
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| Low Profile |
| I usually start my sets out playing 125-130 bpm house, I go through the whole spectrum of house, progressive and trance, and take a few jumps in my set, ending with 140+ techTrance. But what method is best for moving up and down in bpm? Let's say I have a 128 bpm track playing, and I want to kick in some faster track, maybe 135 bpm. How do you do it? Do you increase the speed slowly over time, or do you mix the new track in during the breakdown or what??? |
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| Vlad |
Heres the secret:
Stick to one style of music!
Find a middle BPM and transition from there 128 +3% and 135 -4%, but this doesnt really work out that well . Or dont start the track at 128, start it at 130 or 131... this way, when you speed up the track - you can speed it up to about 134-35 pretty easily without making it sound wierd. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vlad
Stick to one style of music! |
Unless, of course, you're spinning a set that's eight hours or longer. In that case, at least in my opinion, I'd expect it to build from Ambient/Chillout to maybe 142-145BPM Trance. |
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| DOOMBOT |
| You could wait for the minor breakdown at the end of a track, if it has one, and RIGHT before the beat kicks back in then slam the new track in while cutting off the 1st track. Or you could just make the tempo of the next track slower or faster using the pitch. I just bought Perry O'Neil - Myst last weekend but it doesn't beatmatch correctly with pretty much all of my other tracks at regular speed so I set the pitch to about 3 1/2 to 4 and it still sounds great! Some tracks won't though. I think I read somewhere once you set the pitch to 3 at either direction the song will sound unatural but some don't. These are things I have picked up along the way of mixing and I have only been doing it since December. I hope it helps. :) |
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| Low Profile |
Thanks for the tips. But the reason I'm mixing so many types of music is that I have an EDM club at school, our mission is to introduce the music to other people and therefore we have to play a very broad range of music :p
My usual sets are no problem though, there I'm always playing stuff between 135-140 bpm. |
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| s3nate |
| quote: | Originally posted by Low Profile
Thanks for the tips. But the reason I'm mixing so many types of music is that I have an EDM club at school, our mission is to introduce the music to other people and therefore we have to play a very broad range of music :p
My usual sets are no problem though, there I'm always playing stuff between 135-140 bpm. |
I want to go to your school! |
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| DJ 00 Tommy |
Your lucky for me and probably most other TAs. Im the only person in my school who likes edm that isnt complete chees.
I know for a fact that no one in my year level (250ppl) no one likes trance.
The only other EDM fans like realy realy cheasy hard trance and/or commercial overplayed funky vocal slutty bitch house.
Dont get me wrong i like house and a like trance (never mix the two) but the stuff some people listen to is bad. The main reason people hate trance is because they dont even know what it is. |
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| Trance Nutter |
| Well you know that you're gonna be playing faster tracks later on, so every couple of songs move the pitch up (not heaps at once though), just slowly build the speed throughout the set. Just small nudges each time. You know roughlywhere you have to be in x number of songs time, so you should be planning ahead and building over time to that point bpm wise. |
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| Nsonic |
| Or you could just do the ol' spinback and slam in the new track, dont overuse it, of course, just once or twice, and cut into some energetic part of the next song |
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| Dj_Es-Dva |
| I'm not sure about this because i try and find the right BPM for my set from the first song, i find my self mixing beyond 4% all the time...Hello Strings usually takes at least 8-9% :D Still sounds wicked though. |
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| Low Profile |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy
Your lucky for me and probably most other TAs. Im the only person in my school who likes edm that isnt complete chees. |
That's my problem as well, there are about 5-6 people in my school (of 700 ppl) that know what "real" EDM is, so we set out to introduce the music to as many people as possible. If playing live, the trick is to get the people warmed up with some stuff they know (Benassi, Daft Punk, Prodigy and so on), and then we gradually work our way up to better, less known music :D |
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| Demoted |
| I still don't get why EDM needs veritable missionaries. I don't have people coming up to my trying to introduce "underground" or "non-cheesy" rap or rock to me. |
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