This dude has some of the best no- BS positive energy. Very cool 👍

@christianbauerakac4nrg891

2 жыл бұрын

I agree and I learned from him every time more . I mixing also in summary 9years but he do it over 20years . The reality is djing is a never ending learning curve. Best wishes from Germany Munich 🇩🇪

@jimmyj1548

Жыл бұрын

True EDM Australian

This tutorial was my “Eureka” moment. Each step of matchng the BPM without syncing or looking at the beat grid was explained clearly, I have watched many tutorials on this subject and this is by far the most informative. You certainly have the knack for teaching. Your enthusiasm is contagious.Thanks and stay safe.

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

Really happy to have helped :)

I’ve been DJ’ing over 20 years, toured the world and I still really enjoying watching ur videos. You never stop learning and seeing people’s techniques, tips and tricks is vital to always improving. Thanks for the share and keep them coming.

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@wez130

4 жыл бұрын

Is that 'the' Kuffdam? Of PVD's Vandit records?

@Kuffdam

4 жыл бұрын

@@wez130 that's me

@wez130

4 жыл бұрын

@David Erlstoke go listen to Kuffdam & Plant

@guido69x

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! 25 and counting! Its nice to hear someone putting in words some of the stuff we do by instinct!Love his videos and really like his enthusiasm!

You're the first person I saw to actually explain the thought process behind "blind" beat matching.. Others more or less just say to cover up the screens and make it sound right without properly explaining how to achieve the latter. Thank you very much, kind sir!

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@guido69x

3 жыл бұрын

The best way I found to explain it to begginers,without using waves or any sort of displays is ,think 2 cars on a speed way!Even if both cars have the same speed,you need to nudge one to put it side by side to the other. Other thing is,Sync can be pretty handy,but if you dont know how to beat match by hear,you wont notice that the beat grids arent aligned at all.

"you'll probably get kicked off" love the brutal honesty and with a smile

I don't even have any plans to ever DJ. I was just curious how DJ equipment worked because I'm a nerd. I watched a bunch of videos on KZread. Yours are the only ones I found that are any good. Really incredible. You give a complete explanation of everything, leaving out no details. Even someone like me who knew nothing now completely understands. I feel like maybe I could even walk into a club and at least not completely fail even though I've never touched a DJ deck in my life. A++

@chudzij

3 жыл бұрын

whats does being a nerd have to do with anything

@luchezar.plamenov

Жыл бұрын

@@chudzij cuz no one in these comments came here without planning to DJ themselves at one point ~ but i guess this dude did (nerd) LOL joke

I'm a young dj and I've only played one gig so far (in front of my university mates) and I feel no shame in saying that I have used beat matching sync on my humble DDJ 400. I was scared, I was shaking and I was feeling judged even before it all started but you know what, thanks to that little botton for sync I saw people dancing in front of me and having fun, enjoying the night. That gave me confidence to go on fr the entire night. I have learned and I now know how to beat match by ear but, speaking as a new generation dj I am grateful for that and I will suggest any beginner dj to do so, to use the sync button first. Thank you for understanding our generation as well and thanks for such amazing tutorials, you've got a new subscriber now!! Peace :D

@Jonbagis

4 жыл бұрын

Play however with whatever. If what results is devastatingly funky then thats all that matters.

@danielreale6657

4 жыл бұрын

I also have a DDJ400 and can relate to when Andrew changed the tempo and the key changed however there is no master tempo button on our controller. How do you combat this issue?

@lauriegee1272

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Reale in rekordbox there is a master tempo button for each deck - Near where the tempo of each loaded track is - turn it on and keep it on - if you can’t find it in the software just google where abouts it is

@lauriegee1272

4 жыл бұрын

Daniel Reale it might be called key lock or something similiar in rekordbox I’m not totally sure

@DJEL011

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t feel bad. I have the intro DDJ-200. It’s a toy! I’ve gotten more practice on Rekordbox on the computer and Tracktor. It’s fun learning.

I have to say that the way you teach, your vibe and your channel are extremely positive and helpful.. Because of this video i learned how to beat match using my ears and not the visual aids. Thanks man✌️

You are such a great teacher. Very structured and easy to understand and above all positive! Thank you for putting up such great tutorials!

Your teaching style is spot on, I’ve been DJing for over 30 years and you can teach people in a few lessons what it took me years to figure out? And I’m still learning something new! Great content thanks. 🎧🎤😎

“The old timers” Oi, I’m only 39 mate! 🤣🤣🤣

@grssu

3 ай бұрын

you're 42 now how does that feel haha

You’re an incredible teacher ! Thank you for this extremely clear tutorial with perfect steps for progress ! Was hard to find a good explanation of blind beat match, and found you 😁 thanks !!

I agree 100 % with @Kenan. I watched like 10 of these and all were just course bait. This was very helpful. Thanks.

I’ve seen several tutorials on beat matching but this is the first I’ve ‘got’ particularly on how to do it without sync/line matching. Awesome, will be practicing this when I’m back at my decks!

I've just become a subscriber to your channel, you make these techniques very easy to understand and I always appreciate someone who preaches the value of not doing things the easy way, and learning proper technique. Huge fan, and will be checking out your courses as my DDJ-SB3 arrives this coming Thursday! Be well brother 👊🙏

Like your style dude, been hooked with house since 1989 and used technics for a while in the early 90’s. Got my new CDJ’s a couple of weeks ago with a DJM 900 mixer and I’m starting from scratch with digital music. I would be still scratching my head looking at the set up without your tutorials. Thanks for your help !

Thanks, man! This tip definitely helped a lot. BTW, I love your channel! The tutorials are a lifesaver. While I was working on a mix to upload on Mixcloud last week and last night, I've noticed this: certain songs with the same BPM - if I pair up two of them for mixing - doesn't always come out right if I transition from one song to the next. That's why I use my ears to beat match while using the jog wheels. Now, off to my practice!!!!

I watched your video til the end and found myself smiling at the end. Great great work you're doing there mate. Thanks

love the clock hand analogy moving 2 hours at a time :)

I’ve watch a LOT of tutorial videos but this guy is so good and explains it brilliantly.

Great video, thank you very much for the explanations and sharing the knowledge. I’m just learning to DJ and needed a nudge to learn to beat match, this was it! Also love your energy!

You are a legend man! Really great advice in all your videos, appreciate it greatly and keep em coming.

Great tutorial. I'm currently using a DDJ-1000SRT which Serato makes it easy to beat match.. But now looking forward to do it on a CDJs 2000s 👌🙌

You are a very humble gent. Thank you for your videos and always waiting for more!

Excellent video! I already passed the whole DJ course and it's absolutely worth it! Started in 2021 with DJing and made some mixes. I joined a DJ collective in my city and even got my first live gig and it was amazing! I am about to have a few more live gigs, even on a bigger festival on a small stage. Andrew's course is so amazing, thank you very much!

Thank you for this excellent lesson! Going to practice my beat matching now

I learnt the hard way back in the late 80s/early 90s how to beatmix on a pair of technics, took me years but I could never quite get the flawless mixes some 80s Eurobeat Djs could do. Plus beatmixing by ear was very hard on your hearing, I'm now 49 and have constant ringing in my ears!

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

Rock on!

You are the best , you really explain everything that is ment to be understood , even better than others , so keep it up , I've alredy subscribe to your channel when I saw the first tutorial because I consider you a very good teacher.

Im actually using a cdj 850 without sync button it was difficult for me at the beginning cause I’m just started djing and your lessons help me a lot and I’m getting better and better today without sync button 🙏🏿🙏🏿

This is the greatest video for beatmatching! When I have some cash, I definitely get your online classes. You have a great way of explaining. Thanks!

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that you're the man!!!!

I love your energy and videos .thanks👍😍

This helped so much thank u so much!!

You have the best dj tutorials on youtube. I've watched many. I've bought a $1200 worth of courses in the last four years. I'm going to buy your course next!

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate this, you won't be disappointed.

Outstanding and very informative! Awesome, you have a great teaching style

Thanks bro, love your videos!

I fully agree with your views on beatmatching! I learned a long long time ago with vinyls, even prior to the 1200!!!, and now I don't see the reason to complain about DJs using Sync other than what you mentioned... club gear and bad grid placing... otherwise use whatever you want... 99,99% on the dancefloor don't care about equipment, sync, software or whatever, just the music and the artistic capability for mixing. When CDs started to gain the scene vinyls DJs (most of us at that time) said that it wasn't and artform mixing with them, the lack of "touching" your music, and a whole bunch of nonsense... I don't get it, what is the difference between hitting sync and doing the whole thing matching numbers in a couple of screens? More time for long transitions... Having said that, beatmatching saved me quite a few times when something went wrong with grids or whatever... Great to see a master DJ being honest on this... subscribed!

@RefugeetheDJ

4 жыл бұрын

Damn so you learnt to beat match before 1972 when the Technics 1200 was produced?

@guillermopelaez5859

4 жыл бұрын

@@RefugeetheDJ Nop, I learned to beat match around 1983, before I could afford a Technics 1200... I learned on a pair of SL-D2 belt drive... I eventually got a pair of 1200 for my own around 1986 or 87... Although I have access to them around 85/6 at a club... what a blast!. You need to factor that this was Argentina in the 80s... 1200MKii were really expensive. But thanks a lot for pointing out my age :D I do love Traktor thou! ;)

@FitbodySolution

4 жыл бұрын

If you could mix on belt drive table and learn to beat match on them you can do it on anything. I learned on Gemini BD-10 and a radio shack mixer.....

@Jonbagis

4 жыл бұрын

@@FitbodySolution i learnt on the cheapest nastiest soundlab belt drives, they had a mind of their own. Hittin the 1210's was luxury and very smooth. I think it dont matter what method you use as long as your funky.

@killedpatrick

4 жыл бұрын

@@FitbodySolution ahhh the Gemini belt drives...destroyer of new DJs souls hahaha

Best DJ teacher I’ve found on KZread. Thanks mate!

I always hear you in my head saying ‘if you’re not sure, one more!’ Such a useful tip

Good stuff u do, help me alot thx

Fantastic tutorial brother. Very clear. Now feeling inspired to have a go with my gear - even though it’s a controller. I should be able to hide the BPM’s and have a shot at it.

Great help come across as a proper sound a genuine lad 👍

Give this man a bells!!! Love the openness to different approaches! I personally beat match by ear, however I’ve found myself using sync more often as it gives me more time to read the crowd and plan my next songs and transitions into that! Also not a fan of DJs who play 20 songs in 20min, sometimes 40 songs in 20 mins hahaha. (You mentioned this in another video on club equipment). Anyway great channel, subscribed!!

Thanks for that educational video, you really explained this well! I play Drum and Bass and I have a Pioneer XDJ RX2 Controller (I'd like to have the Nexus setup, but it's too expensive haha) and all the visuals are on one screen and you're tempted to look at them all the time, even the wave displays are on top of each other, so you can see if you're in line. Caught me looking at it over and over again, but now I've covered the BPM and wave display and am learning beat matching through my ear. Thanks for this video and keep up the good work, you are doing a great job! You should have more subscribers!

Honestly, I'm impressed. I've been to dozens of beat matching lessons but yours took the trophy. You made It pretty basic and easy to replicate. Nice work

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks so much :) Glad I could help

@davekandy

4 жыл бұрын

So truuuue

these are not tutorials or how to videos, these are literally master classes! thanks man..

I never comment but you buddy are something else!! That teacher that everyone wanted!! Keep them coming please and stay safe!!

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, this makes me so happy!

@marlonbhatt627

4 жыл бұрын

Club Ready DJ School more than welcome! Every comment here is filled with nothing more than positivity and love for how good you are! 🎧🎵👌🏼

I love your authenticity!

Great video! Super clear

This guy energy is very contagious in a positive way 😎😎😎😏😏🌞🌞 👍👍👍

A tip I saw on another video that helped me millions was to move the jog wheel in quarter turns so if you go the wrong way you know exactly how much to turn it back to be back to where you started. I don’t know if it will help everyone but it really helped me .

@OfficialLukeyz

4 жыл бұрын

thanks for the heart haha and I meant a comment on another video, obviously your videos are the best ones

Man thanks so much for that . Super simple and easy to follow . Now to find a deck .

Love your channel and the way you explain everything. Love from Israel 3>

Class video mate. great explanation.

Awesome tutorial Thnks

Another great and informative video.. Thanks

I came from turntables in the late 90's and if you can't beat match and transition without any visual cues you just aren't ready to play clubs. It's not a knock against those who are using sync but it's a must for club DJ's.

Man i freaking love your videos and your personality :D much love from Sweden :D 😍🔥😍🔥😍

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, you have no idea how much I appreciate this :)

Coming from a person that make different types of beats this was helpful

You can also check the equalizers frequency bars to see if the tracks are on beat I think. Haven't mixed in awhile 🤦🏻 great tutorial 👍

This is excellent, well done

You're a superb teacher mate! Really positive energy and very clear instructions!

@ClubReadyDJSchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you I really appreciate this.

you explained this very well thank you it helped a lot !!

Amazing. This is the video that finally convinced me to buy your DJ course. 👏🏼

@ClubReadyDJSchool

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

Love it thank you ❤️

This is a great video. I found other videos from other people didn’t really explain the difference between sync and manually matching the bpm. Keep it up! :)

@ClubReadyDJSchool

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Really good and helpful video

Awesome lesson, sir. You have a great attitude and your methods are clearly instructed. You have a new subscriber! Greetings from Southern Cali my brother.

Hi. I like your tutorials. Help me a lot. Thank you Mr

Really amazing video, homie

Beat matching is cool and all but in terms of giving the best performance live I believe having the modern tools we have like sync allow for dj’s to allocate more attention to other important aspects of performance like song choice, talking to crowd, effects etc.

Can you do a video on music preparation in recordbox? Like how to prepare your music and export to a usb to go play at a club. Theres no tutorials for this topic that I could find so I can prepare music to play at a venue

great video!

Very informative. I will practice

Must be the best video on the subject.

@ClubReadyDJSchool

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

amazing info mate:)

Such the perfect video! 👌👌👌 Hopefully your students look back to this... Man!!! 🤔🤗 I'm running an xdj-xz after years of different equipment and I still believe the best way to learn to beat match is getting on the vinyl. Tricky as it is, it's more about ears and more natural, holds better and well, line matching I find is just always a little out for some reason 😐😊 I've bought your course and I'm trying to give it a go like crazy but if I can just get personal for a sec¿ Lol. I have an issue with self-doubt and for being interested in decks/equipment and over all "the sound of music" since I was 11 and, is what I've lived my life around. So going over everything again as much as I absolutely love and appreciate your teaching (like fk yeah!!) is, (being almost 40 lol) me doubting myself in some ways. I believe I play and choose with a good ear some really nice tunes, new style techno really (acid tech - the darker/deeper ish + the rest hehe) 😀 which as you've found lately, is some very beautiful and pure dance music to work with (appreciation to producers 🙌🎼💕) hehehe 😜 I'm rambling like crazy haha BUT,,, For anyone learning to dj on whatever it is they're using, you are the man dude 👌👌 You seem to have a lot of time for newcomers and that's a beautiful thing man 🤗 you're a fantastic teacher!!👌🎼😉 I believe I say a big "thank you" on behalf of many ppl/passionate DJ's 🔊🎼💕 Anyways, while I try my best to get over the anxiety of trying to contact you haha I just want to say "well done man!!" 🙌 And,,,, Thank you 😊🎼💙

you can buy a microphone that clips on to your shirt mate, that way when you speak while you are playing music in your tutorials, otherwise thanks mate your my favourite DJ to learn off on youtube

I use the sync to match the bpm and I don't have a problem. I grew up using turntables. I have the ear to when to blend the two songs.

Best beat matching tutorial on KZread.

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

🙌

I primarily DJ by Bpm. Other than requests and when I get the feeling of the need of tempo change.

Beginning with vinyl in 2007 🎧 almost 3years for perfection in beatmatching .. now im into digital too😔

very informative...thankyou

Thank you !!

@ClubReadyDJSchool

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

Controllers are amazing makes the who fast transition and different pace and style of mixing but nothing beats that vinyl feeling when you read the notches and know the tunes to get the drops right and then fighting a turntable as there old and one always plays a little faster even though it could be recorded at a certain speed on the pitch fader haha. Good vids mate Love the enthusiasm

@hujimwa

3 жыл бұрын

Hard to truly beat match when the bpm is staring at your from the jog wheel in bright colours in a dark room lol

Learned more from this video than the last hundred I watched. This guy knows how to explain things

@ClubReadyDJSchool

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much I appreciate this!!

I am now motivated to do beat match by ear.. thanks a ton...

@ClubReadyDJSchool

2 жыл бұрын

You can do it!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Very usefull! And I agree with you, every DJ should know beat matching by ear. For sure software analysis is very unreliable and I went through the shock when club equipment had broken connection, so the sync was not working... Some songs have irregular changing speed, good beat grid and sync can take care of it, but without sync and without the knowledge of beat matching... Yeah... really big trouble! Mixing music is about feeling the music and playing with it... so beat matching by ear is really a must 😎👍🤜🤛 not just being a jubox 😜

that´s why i prepare all my tracks that i wanna play to 140bpm and record them in that version. so no problem with beatmachting.

I tend to throw the wheel and catch it but that would probably end up badly if I were to use a different size

Hey thanks for the great video, helped me a lot! You mentioned in the vid that sometimes Rekordbox incorrectly analyses songs and that there is a way to fix that. Would you be able to tell me how, or point me in the direction of the video where you explain it? Cheers!

What setting should I have the jog adjust on? I'm new to this and still learning.

Would you be able to give some help or a video about when the buildup to the song has no snare or drums so I just think it sounds fine through my headphones so i bring it in and when it drops it’s off beat, not sure if it’s my software and the grids are off. Just one struggle I’ve had when learning to beat match by ear. I djay dnb so majority of the buildups are empty so I’m finding it hard

I rely more on line matching than just syncing. But I can beat match by ear pretty easily so I'm fortunate in that regard.

Fanstasic video considering buying the course as a total beginner

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I am not just saying this but the course is insane and has been tried and proven again and again. In Sydney I have had people do the online course with no experience and by the courses end, I gave them shows at the events I run and they were as good, if not better, than my one on one students and even more good news: I have just re worked the entire course and added 30 advanced videos which in Sydney would equal 30 classes, but first things first, the course starts at the beginning and is very easy to follow and loads of fun. Anyway, I hate the marketing side of this, so no pressure whatsoever, I guess I am proud of what I have achieved and happy people are loving the course so much and just want to share it :) :)

I DJ since 2004, but up until 2019 all I played was 4x4 house. Tech House, Deep House, Soulful House. When I started venturing to other genres, like 2-step UKG, DNB or Deep Dubstep I noticed that it was way more difficult and felt like I was learning how to beat match all over again. Especially for Deep Dubstep, where a lot of tracks have hats on weird places, sometimes sounding off beat and it just throws me off a bit, making me doubt if it's actually matched or not

SO as a DJ that learned how to beat match in the nineties. I agree that using master sync is not ideal mostly because I make micro adjustments throughout my set and how hard is it to slide the tempo first to match the other and use the tempo slider at that point to make fine adjustments along with the plater rim to slow down or advance that track a bit.

Thank you everything what are you doing, i started practicing beatmathing, your video helped a lot, it was okay with some genres, but i was feeling totally lost with progressive and melodic house, as there was not loud bass or kick drums and a lot of sound was messing with each other, do you have any tips for that kind of situations?

@ClubReadyDJSchool

4 жыл бұрын

I know this sounds dismissive but practise. If I am not sure if it's in, sometimes I throw it out slightly and work my way back in - hope that makes sense.

great videos & personality!

@ClubReadyDJSchool

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

So funny, comming back to DJing after bout 15 years. The ONLY way to sync and match songs back then is kind of one funky way to do it nowadays

Doing harmonic mixing with vinyl (no keylock/master tempo) is possible, but preeetty difficult. In addition to bpm you have to know the relationships of notes/tones/semitones to each other really well. Or, go by ear and luck like ive been doing on vinyl :D edit: ofc on vinyl you tend to mix the songs on parts where the tracks clash the least, e.g in parts that have less melodic material. One of the reasons I enjoy digital media tbh. Can be sure that the key does not change and mix differently than on vinyl.