Blending Techniques on Turntables

Video Transcript

" What's up? This is DJ Colione on behalf of expertvillage.com and in this clip I am going to show you what a blend is. So often times if you are in a club or at a party with a DJ, they will be playing a song and all of a sudden you are going to hear the lyrics from one song with the beat of another song and often you are left going, how do they do, what's going on? What that is, is a blend, called the blend and what you do to do that is you take the instrumental from one record and you take the acapellas from another record and you play them together while they are beat matched and essentially if it stays on time, you have a new song. It is like your own little remix. There are other records that come up that have that stuff mixed to it but what you really want to do is you want to pick your own and be exclusive to everybody else's so when you do it, you know no one else has heard it before because it is a first time you mixed song A with song B and it is flawless and you are killing a crowd. So what you really have to do is you have to know your music really well. You can but it is good to know because what you are going to have to do is often when people start singing on an acapella, they don't necessarily start singing on a 1. So they might start singing on and or they might start singing on a 7 so you need to know kind of where they start singing so when you go to play it, it is on the right beat. If they are starting to sing on an 8 and you play it on a 2 or 4 or something like that, it is going to sound weird. It's not going to sound appropriate. It could still be on beat but it is just going to sound weird so you really want to get a good feel for your music. You don't have to know the numbers but if you are able to sing the song in your head and you know how it goes, you will be able to start it on the right beat. So what we are going to do is take the instrument on this song and going to put the acapella on this song and we are going to see how it sounds. So we just have standard beat on this side and we have just an acapella on this side. What we are going to do is just mix them together. There we go, we have our own new song, right? So this is a great thing you guys can do at a night club to impress your friends or whatever you want to really show that you are mixing on vinyl because doing this the other way is really hard and that in a sense is a blend. "