How to Mix ANY GENRE like a PRO DJ!
Mixing different genres of music together seamlessly in a mix or “Openformat” mixing, is almost a requirement for most DJ’s nowadays.
To have the flexibility to play any song to make an audience member happy and to do it in a mix for me is one of the truest forms of DJ’ing, because it tests your musical knowledge, mixing ability and crowd reading ability. If you can DJ for anyone, you can DJ for everybody.
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Now, a lot of you guys may know me for my Red Bull 3style DJ Set.
In that set I mixed over 5 genre’s of music in a 15 minute mix, and in total, I played about 30 songs.
Learning how to mix different genre’s of music blew me away back in the day. Because I simply didn’t know that DJ’s could do that.
I thought DJ’s just play one genre, and that’s it. But that’s not the case in the real world, where clubs, bars and events may require you to play all sorts of music together.
And today I’m gonna teach you how to do just that.
For this tutorial, we’re going to focus on mixing 3 different genre’s of music. Specifically, EDM, Hip Hop and Rock. I chose these genre’s specifically because of how different they are from one another.
So no, we’re not gonna mix EDM, with trance to dubstep to trap to tech house, those genres are just way to similar
For now we’re simply going to focus on mixing genre’s of music that aren’t conventionally done.
So here are 3 guidelines to note about your songs that’ll help you with your mixing. But don’t worry it’s not required.
Now, number 1,
1. The songs should be in the same BPM range
Number 2
2. It’ll help if they’re keys are the same as well
And number
3. It is recommended to use DJ edited songs for their intros and outros that they provide
Now you may be wondering where and how do we mix these songs together?
Well the trick is to mix during the chorus or outro of the current song playing.
Since the songs we’re going to use to mix in are DJ edits, mixing them in shouldn’t be too difficult, since the intros are mostly simple drum beats.
So EQ’ing and blending them in should be pretty simple. All we have to do is mix in at the right time, and blend and adjust.
Now, it’s important to know basic song structure, but to make things short. Most commercial songs, have 32 beat choruses, and most DJ edits have 32 beat intros and outros,
so mixing in during the chorus or outro will be best.
Now let’s say you don’t have a DJ edit of the song you want to mix in, well you could mix in the non dj edited song with the outro of the current song playing which should be a DJ edit.
So we have the strong lead of the next song, blending in nicely with the blank outro of the previous song.
Now the question is, how do you mix songs that don’t have DJ edited intros and outros,
Well this is the part where you analyze the length of the chorus’s intro, and the number of beats the next has song has before a vocal break comes in.
So our current song has a 32 beat chorus, but our next song only has an 8 beat intro
So we must the next song at the last 8 beats of the current song
Keep in mind, that you have to be quite good in blending songs together. And using the echo effect can help you make this transition a lot smoother.
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I want to do something like that too. I’m going to be mixing jazz fusion, rhythmic New Age music, midtempo prog rock, boom bap, Downtempo, smooth jazz, hip hop soul, & gospel along with some soft rock, disco, light pop, new jack swing, funk, boogie, house, and polka.
Another amazing tutorial video....you rock my friend....certainly the best videos about DJ in KZread are yours!
Amazing video Dj Carlo! I'm totally agree with you. When you are mixing with different genres people like more and you are saying that you are a full dj. Cause you have the knowledgement of all the music and you know which is the best option to turn to a different genre. Thank you very much for all your videos, to me it's so funny and interesting to watch it! 🔥🔥🔥
Great video. I can never get enough of your ending of the videos. So motivating.
Carlo what a great tutorial on this form of mixing! You explained it in such a simple and precise style. Thank you and looking forward to your next video. 👊🏼
You seem like a really chill real down to earth guy. Love the tuts, deff helpin out a bunch, great advice and guidance. Thanks for sharing gnosis.
Great job. I always pick up a few tips and tricks, bur for some reason, these transitions really hit home. Thank you so very much!
@djcarlo
4 жыл бұрын
That's awesome man! Hope you try these tricks out and be an awesome dj!
Thanks djcarloatendido for always giving us relevant stuff to download. We don't take it for granted. Thanks alot . Informative and practical stuff.
You execution is superb! I have a wedding coming up soon and I wanted to just touch up on some open format mixing techniques. Your video happened to be in my recommendations and I clicked it instantly! Thank you for the inspiration!
Those tips were godlike! Looking forward for a video in the future with in-depth tips for using the eq knobs in regular and open format mixing! Again, Congrats DJ :)
also i find just hitting a 4 or 8 beat loop at the start of a none dj track helps you able to mix songs that are not dj friendly edits way easy ...if you are having trouble
@lilk-hole2485
3 жыл бұрын
@Cole Denver wow aren't you a fucking loser LOL
I love your videos they inspire me to try different things thank you for your hard work!!!🤩
Great video and tips! I'm used to play open format sets, but didn't knew this techniques. Thank you very much :-)
excellent video: Perfect video, good clear voice, PERFECT EVERYTHING
This technique is wonderful and impressive. Thanks for sharing knowledge !!!!!
Thank you Carlos your video's are really informative and it really helps at lot of people young and old. There is never a bad time to learn more info
Great video Carlo. Love all the graphic text elements you use on this.. very slick!
Another great tutorial!! Thank you so much!
I was hoping you'd do a video on open-format mixing some day! I'm from the UK, so even though I mainly play (and LOVE) house, I want to mix UK garage/bassline/grime (130-140bpm) as well as commercial and rock, so this video is super useful! Thanks as always for sharing your knowledge!
This really makes so much sense and it's what I'm working on at the moment, just making sure I do it right....Thank You again Carlo!!!
@djcarlo
Жыл бұрын
That's how you do it Benny! Give everyone a good time with the music!
Literally DJ AM was doing this over a decade ago.... RIP to one of the GOATs 🐐
Carlo, ANG GALING MO TALAGA! LODI! Walang katapat!
Great video! One problem with mixing rock music is it has a drummer playing which means the rhythm of the beats float around which makes it tricky (no pun intended) to mix! Keep up the great work.
@g30jack
5 жыл бұрын
Ableton. Warp your tracks to the closest whole BPM.
Thank you MASTER once again...and this kind of MIXING is actually not frequently used especially by the new ERA of djing except for those who are truly a DJ MASTERS, or except for those who have dive deep into mixing DJ..like you xD.. I think this kind of mixing will really help a lot especially if you have to use old song in your mix and also yep new songs as well..but mann this kind of mixing level is insane really really insane...not easy but yet ultimately rewarding in the end..thank you for sharing the real meaning of mixing song to us Master..really really awesome..of you..
Thank for this Tutorial always following your channel to learn more things
And Now thats what i call a great weekend to start practcing that session simple nd alot of infos Dj Carlo we need a video more long how you organise and prepair a 3style music please :)
Como siempre muy buen tutorial, felicidades Carlo.
Man, thanks again Week after week crazy tips well explained! ( And now quickly back to my decks to practice :))
Lovin these tutorials, keep it up idol heheh, your videos are really helpful
I liked the tutorial very much! Great work!! 👍
THANK YOU FOR COMBO TUTORIALS IDOL.
Thanks a lot this helped me a lot
I just start as a beginner DJ few months ago and I really struggling on how the FX and EQ works on the tracks. I learn a lot from your video especially this one :D I am going to use this in my next performance next month
Yooooo man this is amazing!! Thank you so muuuuch 🔥🔥
Wow this is sooo dope... omg love it🔥👍👍 A fan from France...
Thanks a ton for this tutorial I am going to use these tricks in my gigs
Great video and hints!
Great video man! Thank u bro !
Nice one Carlos...great video! Please make more videos on transitions for open format mixing, they are awesome. Also could you let us know what software your using to annotate your steps?
Short precise videos love it
Man that run dmc/gnr transition was kool!
What a humble dude, much rescpect DJ Carlo!!
Excellent!!!!!!! Ty
Another awesome tutorial master😁😁😁
This is definitely necessary for nowadays club mixing. Thanks again!
Great video. Gotta try the open format. Looks and sounds interesting.
very good mixing tutorial....helpfull and easy...thumbs up!!!
Thanks a Lot Carlo.!!!
Hey Carlo! Big fan! I was wondering if we could know what your FX banks are? Thank you for all the videos, very educational and insightful
Great video Carlo! A question, in your experience, is possibly perform open format with the X1 controller and traktor?
Very cool lesson, thank you :D
Love your videos. They are very inspiring and motivational. Have you considered doing a video on lighting?
This vídeo os awsome man o agree with you. Carlo could you do any vídeo about Progressive Psytrance? I got stucked cause most Progressive trance has its own history and If i transition them within few minutes i wont ever get the good feelings of the track. How do i fix this?
oh man dj'ing for a mixed crowd is always the most pain in the ass luckily most times it's worked out for me, but i always feel bad when it doesn't. i like to make the crowd enjoy the event
Hi Dj Carlo what beginner dj controller has a button that can switch keys? Many thanks!
Awesome Bro! "Master" thanks!!! Slamat
OMG, i love youre Videos, its so helpfull. Greetings from Germany :D
Your videos help me alot. Thanks
Ima step out the box and go ahead and mix genres...i came up with a nice mix of different genres but It was so different I was scared to post it ...that's never been my style but now I'm motivated lol
Love your videos!!!
It also depends on the types of events you do, like me for example, because I'm just starting out I do a lot of smaller raves, events, and I might even be doing a small convention here in Toronto in March, so I tend to play a lot of UK/Happy Hardcore and Drum N' Bass, so a lot of my mixes tend to be one genre.
Great Video again as expected...
Great video and tips!
No joke you are the best teacher for learn mix
thx to you carlo
I’m getting the scratching a little bit by little. Do have anything that show me how to get samples and put them on to Serato and another thing how do you make the words to the song stutter when you scratching the song and the song still playing.
hey, these are great tutorials! thanks for sharing!
@jenyi
5 жыл бұрын
what about mixing different genres with drastically different bpms? i play a lot of sweet sixteens and get a lot of varying requests that the guests want to hear right away
u r the best and keep on going 😎😎😎😎
Intresting stuff,I allready use these tricks and others ,technically I don’t think I a particularly great djay but tune selection and a constant going up the BPM changing the styles /genres as I go loads of fun
@djcarlo
Жыл бұрын
Just knowing how to please a crowd goes a long way nowadays!
Can you please make a tutorial about Sound quality? Bitrate etc. and where you get your music from? Are KZread Rips alright for playing it out etc.? Would be curious about your opinion!!
Back in the day, it was all open format mixing. You had to go from rock to freestyle to R&B, to electro funk to Hi NRG to whatever. It was always fun.
FANTASTICO DJ RESPECT
You are awesome..!!
just SEEING you mix like 4 songs in a row impresses me
@djcarlo
4 жыл бұрын
😊 Thanks for your kind words!
This is my favorite form of djaying
Bro Dj Carlo very inspirational video... This set is you look like Adam Michael Goldstein (DJ AM) Both you my idol..
In love with this vid!! but i need to learn how to mix songs with different bpm for example 70 to 130. could you make a video teaching that? :)!
Great Video!
Is there any website where we can download/buy dj edited songs?
Nice!
Dope mix!
@maarcislv
5 жыл бұрын
@@djcarlo haha yeah. Cool that you made a video about mixing multiple genres together as I suggested on one of your edm + hiphop videos. Sounds pretty sweet imo. I mean, I myself don't have any setup, but seeing friends play, trying it out a bit and watching your videos gives a huge inspiration, thinking of soon buying my own personal ddj setup, something cheap at first though
thanks..!liked and subd!
Sweet (child of mine) mixing- great tips, how about some mix tips for Christmas music- like nobody gets Christmas party gigs?
Very helpful ❤❤
Carlo, please tell me where you get your microphone for recording videos? You have a tie clip microphone? Are they expensive?
Bruuuuuhhh Yes! Great Lesson!
After playing a few years doing primarily hip-hop and EDM themed nights, I reluctantly accepted a gig playing at a Rock club. I needed the steady work and figured it would hold me over until I could get back in my comfort zone. Though creatively mixing dance and hip-hop in with the rock jams, I transformed the venue into an open format staple of the nightlife in that city. It challenged my abilities and ended up being my longest held residency to date and became one of the most rewarding experiences of my DJ career. Now almost every gig I play is influenced by the skills I picked up.
@DigitalBroomstick
5 жыл бұрын
No you didn't mate, you're probably still using virtualDJ in your bedroom
always referenzclass . !! love this.
Why did you increase the eq at 4:02?.....for matching the levels or for some other reasons
6:49 great message to sign off the lesson!
keep forgetting to ask how do you get the beat lines on serato?
i love your tutorials man, kudos! is it right to play a 1A and 5A keys together? please make a tutorial about the Camelot Keys combination when mixing, thank you in advace.
@deebee390
5 жыл бұрын
It sounds good to me. Thank you too.
You are the bess . Im from dominica repablic i like you mix
@djcarlo
3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that! Thanks so much for listening!
DJ ATENDIDO... my idol!
Great video. That's how I do it. 😊
YAY!😉😉❤
So encridible💯💯‼️
@johnlloydb.policarpio7263
5 жыл бұрын
Try to work it out
Best teacher :) I have considered: Will Pioneer upgrade ddj rr to ddj 600 that have a layout of cdj, djm
great job