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<blockquote data-quote="Vince Menace" data-source="post: 916155" data-attributes="member: 48211"><p>Learn to use your ears. What I mean by that is don't rely on Serato to feed you BPM info. I don't know what styles of music you play but I say what I say because not everything is at a constant tempo. For instance if you were going to mix some old school funk record. The music is played by a live band. Which means 95% of the time for live bands the tempo will NOT remain constant. It ever so changes! It is even more complicated when your mixing 2 live bands together. So a bpm count is useless in that situation. Mixes those kinda records require different techniques. </p><p> Now with a constant tempo song you can rely on the tempo 95% of the times. Yes even some electronic songs change speed. Some artist do it purposely. It is all knowing what record is faster and by how much. Which brings me to another tip. KNOW YOUR RECORDS! Not just where the breaks are but also know the tempos. So if you have a song playing at 128bpm and the next is 125bpm. You know that track needs to be sped up 3bpms. Which is about 2.3-2.4% on your turntable pitch. Which you can use for any 2 tracks that are 3bpms apart.</p><p> Here is a bonus for you. How do I know 2.3-2.4% will give me about 3bpms. Because of this formula</p><p></p><p> (BPM*Pitch)/100= BPM Speed.</p><p></p><p> I don't want to confuse you nor is it a good idea to do algebra while you rock a party! Unless that is your thing lol. Just thought I'd share that with you. With all that said practice practice practice! More importantly HAVE FUN! Hope to hear your progress someday!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vince Menace, post: 916155, member: 48211"] Learn to use your ears. What I mean by that is don't rely on Serato to feed you BPM info. I don't know what styles of music you play but I say what I say because not everything is at a constant tempo. For instance if you were going to mix some old school funk record. The music is played by a live band. Which means 95% of the time for live bands the tempo will NOT remain constant. It ever so changes! It is even more complicated when your mixing 2 live bands together. So a bpm count is useless in that situation. Mixes those kinda records require different techniques. Now with a constant tempo song you can rely on the tempo 95% of the times. Yes even some electronic songs change speed. Some artist do it purposely. It is all knowing what record is faster and by how much. Which brings me to another tip. KNOW YOUR RECORDS! Not just where the breaks are but also know the tempos. So if you have a song playing at 128bpm and the next is 125bpm. You know that track needs to be sped up 3bpms. Which is about 2.3-2.4% on your turntable pitch. Which you can use for any 2 tracks that are 3bpms apart. Here is a bonus for you. How do I know 2.3-2.4% will give me about 3bpms. Because of this formula (BPM*Pitch)/100= BPM Speed. I don't want to confuse you nor is it a good idea to do algebra while you rock a party! Unless that is your thing lol. Just thought I'd share that with you. With all that said practice practice practice! More importantly HAVE FUN! Hope to hear your progress someday! [/QUOTE]
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