How To Double Drop - Drum & Bass DJ Tutorial

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to double drop tracks together. This mixing technique is a great way to add something new to your sets and help you stand out as a DJ.
The key features in this tutorial are using phrasing, mixing in key, and learning how to find the right tracks.
Tracklist:
Dub Phizix - Buffalo Charge
Vacuum - Tornado VIP
Chase & Status - No Problem
Sub Focus - Solar System
The Prodigy - Fire Starter
Buraka Som Sistema - Hangover (BaBaBa) (Casper Remix)
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Пікірлер: 138

@Crossfader 2 жыл бұрын

This is a lesson from inside our DJ HUB. Take a sneak peak of more lessons like this inside here: bit.ly/3hdtAAl

@tovyaweissberg47 2 жыл бұрын

When I started, getting the double drop on point you really had to know the tracks like the back of your hand... to be able to see the full waveform in software is extremely helpful, definitely saves from some trial and error

@de3.pe3 2 жыл бұрын

U just gotta remember if the drops 22, 44, 1:06 or 1:28 when it comes to like 90% of Dnb songs

@mrrayner7162 2 жыл бұрын

@@de3.pe3 16, 32, 48 or 64 bars ;)

@shroomologist 2 жыл бұрын

Beatjump eliminates trial and error on the digi side, getting familiar with how fast the stylus travells across a record (assuming you can see the grooves) can be very helpful on the analog side. Obviously there is some variance with the latter depending on volume levels but you can still get a feel for it.

@Overkill_dnb Жыл бұрын

Doing it on vinyl with no cue points was hard going 😂

@akanonymoss 7 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm an old school happy hardcore vinyl dj from the 90's, just bought and set up a ddj400 and downloaded a load of dnb and 140, can still beat match after all these years and picked up the bars and phrases with hardcore straight away but can't get the timings with the double drops. Only about 15 hours in so will keep trying

@CH35H4 2 жыл бұрын

The secret is knowing your tunes, knowing the drops, reading the vinyl grooves or wave visual. Knowing what tunes go well, realising that vocal into vocal is not a good option 😂 And then just practise ❤️

@elytschasmith2818 2 жыл бұрын

i resorted all my tracks into many vocals vs basically now vocals after i had realised that.. x)

@Inflow459 Жыл бұрын

Depends what the vocals are

@specialtater Жыл бұрын

Nothing like a surprise duet :D

@nova3124 9 ай бұрын

This is exactly what I struggle with. SOmetimes it looks like it'll make total sense for me and then it sounds dogshit. Then other times the keys aren't supposed to go well together yet it fucking SLAPS. God, I just wanna get better at it, its so frustrating!

@itsYAboyGoose Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate that he played it with the hot cue jump and without it. Helped to really see that every little thing can be a benefit to your mix.

@kevdog5043 Жыл бұрын

Setting a 8 or 16 bar loop on track b before its drop makes this process much easier

@Kid_Ellipsis 2 жыл бұрын

Nice examples. My .02: find tracks that really speak to each other and use this technique sparingly. This was so much harder back in the vinyl days but you’ve really got your pick of the lot now - it should surprise and delight the listener. Blow a mind or two by cutting to an unexpected third track with an energy shift and then stab the first two back on their accents with the channel faders. Dialogue man.

@neohippie6737 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great tutorial. Double dropping is one of my favourite techniques to add more spice, energy and tension to my mixes. I use it a lot in my dirty progressive psytrance sets :) However, what I like to do is always create some space for the other track, either by using the hpf/lpf or by pushing the mids and highs a bit lower on both tracks, also changing them during the build-up to add extra tension and release. In my experience, the mixes sound cleaner, the volumes are better matched and you can hear what is going on in the tracks better.

@oves2006 2 жыл бұрын

Fire starter drop literally was 🔥 🔥 🔥

@djdannyjamesuk 2 жыл бұрын

👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

@djjarno7166 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve never heard of this trick before so thank for learning.

@brodybestluck Жыл бұрын

Super good demonstration! Love this guy

@jontouhig6336 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Great video thanks guys,

@mindmineral 6 күн бұрын

You are a great teacher

@djctoafn 2 жыл бұрын

Double Drops are life

@nikwaldo1253 2 жыл бұрын

What a tune 2:50 , Dub phizix. Proper mad in a rave and a nice double that

@LeonEdwards1976 2 жыл бұрын

You guys read my mind, nice one for releasing this video :)

@djdannyjamesuk 2 жыл бұрын

👊🏼 thanks for watching!

@AI-Hallucination Жыл бұрын

The spacing tip is gold

@heyjudh 8 ай бұрын

love that bro

@hupa1a 2 жыл бұрын

Nice one!

@Ogchampayne 2 жыл бұрын

Wow was thinking I should learn double drops for dnb that’s awesome

@djdannyjamesuk 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@consciousmeandu Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🙏🎉

@bradrowland5432 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@djgoraindia 2 жыл бұрын

Nice 🙌 crossfader 🥳 well explained

@djdannyjamesuk 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@devonbeeman8804 2 жыл бұрын

This whole video just melted my brain

@kazzzzzzza 4 күн бұрын

This was amazing! Can you guys do more DnB specific videos??❤

@adamantiuscloudcat1799 Жыл бұрын

Excellent

@PONDLIFEPARTY Жыл бұрын

Sick guy

@tweekingweak 2 жыл бұрын

amazing

@djdannyjamesuk 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@kickmeijer2396 2 жыл бұрын

This guy explains things very nice and calm. Kept me interested

@djfrancoisroulland5548 2 жыл бұрын

thank

@firewithfire 9 ай бұрын

Oh my days - more PRODIGY, please!!!

@mrrayner7162 2 жыл бұрын

9:32 sounds hard in fairness, but EQ is king when doubling two major drops. In fact filter mixing is way better if you have a habit of double dropping tunes. Vocals are so good for it too. Also, am I the only one who gets OCD when seeing people not set beat grids? Anyone can play how they want obvs, just I am a bit too obsessed with beat grid setting.

@yiskadj7986 2 жыл бұрын

Idk but neurofunk is way different when it comes to double dropping in key. I think that just comes down to neurofunk not beeing all to melodical :P. Also alot of stuff works together without really knowing your tracks ive noticed that when playing b2b sets!

@firewithfire 9 ай бұрын

I can't learn nuffink when you drop those jammin' beats, bruv! HAHA!

@michaela.754 2 ай бұрын

I've been doing this since the 90s. Didn't know it had a name.

@charliebailey768 Жыл бұрын

thank you just came back from leeds fest and im ready to make some skanky bass lines

@outsidewithdj 9 ай бұрын

R u sure.

@bugnut4432 3 ай бұрын

@@outsidewithdj He was not ready 😭

@TheCuzzieKage 2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping for more of how to mix double drops in relation to levels and clipping and if adjusting gains is a good idea

@evanmassimino3416 2 жыл бұрын

If you adjust your gains ahead of time there's no need to mess with them live. I either filter out the secondary track a bit, or lower the eq's and volume just a tad. So the primary track can shine

@stachu1027 Жыл бұрын

Strategy is fucking goated

@Ellerz03 9 ай бұрын

Because I mix dnb predominantly using the bpm slider usually takes far to long when I’m trying to go for things like doubles, switches or triples as I usually have my hotcues set 16 beats before the drop, I know how to beat match because with stuff like house and garage it’s not as quick. But dnb I struggle and have to use sync else I’ll miss the queen points. How do you change the bpm quicker than the bpm slider?

@chhumvattanak122 2 жыл бұрын

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@fairplay8132 7 ай бұрын

As a 20+ year DJ mainly DnB / Breakbeat.......... A "double drop" just sounds like (and I mean no disrespect)....... mixing. Working 2 tracks together, on beat, in phrase / key, and riding it till ..... probably the breakdown or the next 16 for another layer to come in on the 2nd record / track. Is that correct ? I've just never heard it called that. It just sounds like mixing is being described to me tbh.

@adambloomer4758 2 жыл бұрын

I use double drops already but wanted to watch for some tips. I loved the Chase and Status one where you switch back to the drum buildup as the double drop instead of the actual drop itself. Gonna look for ways to experiment with this now. Just one question - do you set some kind of quantize on those cue points or are you just good at hitting it at exactly the right moment without having to make beat alignment adjustments?

@djdannyjamesuk 2 жыл бұрын

Quantize is turned on for that transition. I only really turn it off when I want to do faster hot cue play 🙂

@lennyseater916 Жыл бұрын

how do you know how many beats before the drop ?

@jonjohnson2844 2 жыл бұрын

Good stuff, where's he from? Sounds Barnsley or maybe West Yorkshire?

@djdannyjamesuk 2 жыл бұрын

Leeds! 🙂

@FarfuriGarpAG 2 жыл бұрын

Steal following your channel at 6 am in france 🌃

@andrehala4776 2 жыл бұрын

Where do I get one of those laptop levitators?

@MagnumDB 2 ай бұрын

4:30 - What is your method for placing markers at 64 (or any amount of) beats before a drop? How do you figure out where it’s 64 beats before a drop? Are you counting backwards from the drop or can the software figure this out? It would be very cool and I assume totally possible for you to place a marker at the drop itself and then press a button that jumps back 64 (or any amount of) beats to where you can then place that marker.

@kazzzzzzza 4 күн бұрын

When you go into rekord box on your laptop you can open up a song in performance mode, go to the drop. Then find the tab with hot cues, select beat jump tab, scroll across to 64 (or however many beats you want) and select forwards or backwards that many beats. This saves SOOO much time and I wish I knew it sooner. Goodluck

@mybalzarichi46 Жыл бұрын

Alot of things you need to think about before doing double drops .... Like will I die ?! 🤣🤣😜

@balayaw Жыл бұрын

this tutorial is actually very good regarding double drops, i did a dancefloor 2022 mix in my channel with a lot of the things he explains full of double drops if you want to check out how to put this in practice.

@TheAuxBandit 3 ай бұрын

Surely switching to a cue point on the drop will make your mix not beatmatched because your timing will rarely be 100% perfect. Or are we playing in sync mode here?

@Crossfader 3 ай бұрын

You can use quantise for this, sync doesn't have to be enabled :)

@djhemirukahemisphere8893 2 жыл бұрын

I never what this term meant!... In hipbop this is just what djs do. Using the croasfsde once the tracks are are in or trnsforming on olfer mkxers... crossfading back and forth.

@lukeallen3549 10 ай бұрын

what would the sub genres of both songs fall into? jump up?

@marcustrevor1883 9 ай бұрын

First two tracks yes, both jump up, solar system I'd say is dancefloor dnb, and no problem is probably jump up as well with jungle influences, might call it ragga dnb. Chase and status have a pretty unique sound

@mannam3306 2 жыл бұрын

Triple flips come on

@phokyocouch2718 2 жыл бұрын

The best is when you’re an old school dj and you can read records. Since it’s all players now it’s easy to do quadruple drops. Oh how times have changed.

@EExgle 10 ай бұрын

Read record?? Like seeing in line x theres more going on = the drop is in XY Bars?

@MrMaster2262 Жыл бұрын

Double drop usually involves sipping something 🤪... 🤫shhh!

@blackcyborg009 2 жыл бұрын

Slightly off-topic question: Why is the right CDJ unit showing 87 BPM? Is an error on the part of Rekordbox?

@golovaraoul8989 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I think it's indeed a fault of recordbox, not sure what happend but it should be double the amount, so 174

@looqaa297 2 жыл бұрын

You can fix it by re-analysing the track at a higher range of bpm, like 90-213 or something on those lines, a lot of my DnB tracks were set at half their actual BPM and this fixes this, doesn't matter too much though in the grand scheme of things.

@DeviouzGG Жыл бұрын

@@looqaa297 it sucks when syncing

@Dev1nci 2 жыл бұрын

That’s very cool but I think it’s mainly something that the DJ will do and everyone is just trusting that he’s not faking the sliders 😂😂 but the double drop sounds great 👌

@dietwaffles5907 2 жыл бұрын

Pause at 7:25 I think the beat grid for No Problem is off, because the downbeat is not on the first beat of the drop. Am I wrong?

@dietwaffles5907 2 жыл бұрын

Also at 7:48 when you use Hot Cue A, that should for sure be a red line on that beat and 8:26 when you start mixing you can see that the other track's beat grid is correct and they don't line up

@skaterzero07 Жыл бұрын

@@dietwaffles5907get to where you don’t need lined up beat grids like him

@avealaughnz 2 жыл бұрын

when double dropping, is it ok to have both eq bass in 12 oclock position [,the tracks are being mixed in key] or do the clash with each other

@gethelp6271 2 жыл бұрын

depends on how it sounds when you do that. if it sounds good then do it again. Also keep listening to music until you KNOW what will sound good and then you wont need to ask anyone if it sounds good or not.

@shroomologist 2 жыл бұрын

It's not ideal. While 2 tracks could be perfectly in key it's still possible for basslines to cancel each other out if they aren't in phase. Having said that it can occasionally sound good doing this but generally isn't reccomended.

@mugatu8732 2 жыл бұрын

just dont do it. at least not at 12 o`clock

@mariak8095 Жыл бұрын

it *can* blow out speakers to have both at 12 oclock

@Theridingexplorer Жыл бұрын

Anyone a spotify playlist with this exact kinda dnb?

@elladowns8010 Жыл бұрын

i liked when they both dropped together more

@rebinu 6 ай бұрын

Yea def

@edwinvasquezz3228 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what CDJ’s he’s using?

@kaiyosonics 2 жыл бұрын

CDJ-3000

@essaydnb 2 жыл бұрын

could you do one for triples? would appreciate it

@DoughDJ 2 жыл бұрын

Just find me on Twitch and see it first hand. I'll give you a direct tutorial live.

@skaterzero07 Жыл бұрын

@@DoughDJI’m gonna look for you!

@DoughDJ Жыл бұрын

@@skaterzero07 Every Tuesday and Saturdays, 7pm ET.

@Kavin-zo4qx 8 ай бұрын

how to select tracks to play dnb EXAMPLE: should we download the exetended tracks

@Dirty-Hertz Жыл бұрын

Don't worry kids, just hit the, "Sync" button and you're good to go.

@bentramer4281 3 ай бұрын

I learned all this shit by myself without having to watch a tutorial.

@turtlesquirtle7393 3 ай бұрын

congratulations

@Yuneitee Ай бұрын

Cool story bro

@jozefpodhradsky9716 Жыл бұрын

I saw that Quantize is not set on the second round of mixing Chase and Sub

@kripdeejay8048 2 ай бұрын

So a double drop is a mashup

@alexp5008 Жыл бұрын

But how tf he know that its 64 beats away from the drop? Can i move certain beats away from a cue? and how?

@waylandsmith 8 ай бұрын

There are a few ways. If you're familiar enough with your gear you can eyeball it. There are bar lines in the waveform every 4 beats. With a lot of setups, there is also a special highlighted bar line every 4 bars (16 beats). He's also using the "beat jump" controls to move around. They move the play head exactly a set number of beats. 16 beats (4 bars) is common, since that's the minimum length of a musical phrase in a lot of genres. So you just find the drop point and hit the "beat jump" button backwards 4 times. 16 x 4 = 64 beats.

@phoebeduke1002 Жыл бұрын

How do u know where 64 bears before the drop is ??

@sentryogmixmaster 2 жыл бұрын

if you ain't double droppin 80% of yur set and cut n choppin them doubles...you ain't mixin son!

@samrogers7657 2 жыл бұрын

Fierce, Randall, Marky (the list goes on) beg to differ…

@uniqueflowsnake 2 жыл бұрын

no ty

@gregraye1396 2 жыл бұрын

Sarcasm detected lmoa

@Seabass-vx2uk 2 жыл бұрын

These days with drum n bass it’s almost harder not to double drop. Try not to overuse it imo

@DJMattius 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, can we see the same tricks on vinyl, now?

@beatvillainz 2 жыл бұрын

Secret? Lol

@markg272 Жыл бұрын

Isnt "Double Drop" just blending two tracks.

@MrmachineELF 24 күн бұрын

'double drop' aka just mixing 😂😂

@stitchweekendrushdefection4613 2 ай бұрын

New skool djs are so lame 😮

@tovyaweissberg47 2 жыл бұрын

This the only mix I ever uploaded on KZfaq. Crazy how it was 10 years ago now ! Has a few good examples of utilizing double drops for transitions in it tho. Have a listen 🎶 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nMWjY71kpryWlas.html

@B166ER2K6 2 жыл бұрын

Jamie's looking a little rough these days, huh? :(

@metalheadz_1998 2 жыл бұрын

oh man i totally dissagre 07:45 - that was proper switch effn genzs.

@hovnousek1962 Жыл бұрын

:DDD

@metalheadz_1998 2 жыл бұрын

does not work with jungle, drunfunk or more sophisticated dnb.

@Dev_Entity 2 жыл бұрын

what you call "double drops" is just mixing two tracks together...

@redcloth6073 2 жыл бұрын

@johnbennie317 6 ай бұрын

I'm watching trying to figure out wth I'm missing lol

@jaygabbert6645 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone can do this now... yawn.. enjoy

@gethelp6271 2 жыл бұрын

13:50 This is terrible advice. Its far better to remember all of your tracks yourself. Force yourself to really know your music instead of having the computer handling it for you. That way you get to be a DJ instead of a “end user”.