You're one of the funniest, most personable, and informative teachers I've ever found. Thanks, dude.

I made this video for the people who didn't know how to mix DnB. You know how! good for you, they do not, so perhaps after a few tutorials from me and other people one day they will, and in turn they will help others. This is all i want. thanks j

14 ish years later and your lessons are really making an impact on my progress, thanks dude

man, you're the best! why do still people think these tutorials would be useless? ifyou don't need them, don't watch them, you're not forced to watch this! i hate those people, who think only because they know how to do something, the others wouldn't have to learn it... so, shut up! thanks for your great help, johnathan!

now i know why there's a fire extinguisher in the background, those songs are top

I feel like this guy should of been on Human Traffic

Epic mate, your videos really make my day brighter everytime, cheers for your work and the laughs :)

That mix into shock out is bloody brilliant mate every time I hear the tune it reminds me of you and this video

I normally dj techno and I've been trying to learn to mix D&B, you're video is absolute fucking gold. hasn't aged even a little bit.

Just watched this - really helpful, and you're a really easy person to watch! Subscribed

love your no nonsense explanations. good stuff.

Really nice video ellaskins !!! Someone just gave me the heads up on your video, telling me you had used one of my tracks in your video (trick a tek remix), lol that put a smile on my face, keep up the informative videos john, you are a super star dj !!!, plus a very very good presenter !!! all the best from P.O.T

Feel like I'm so late to this party but I'm here, learning and very grateful.

Missed this video, you have some great tutorials mate, big respect.

Always fun to watch, john your a legend mate

what a lovely bloke !! just good too actually meet ( if you like ) someone this genuine ....had me watching all his posts ...looool

In d'n'b, the kicks rarely land on the third beat. It's usually the 3.5 or the "three-and," halfway between the 3 and the 4. This is what makes it a breakbeat.

Yay!!! Mines the 200th comment.... this guy is legend.... love the way he explains stuff.....I believe in two things, if someone makes something looks easy and makes you think "yea I could do that " and then you try to do it and fail..then who explained it is damn good (they made it look easy) ......secondly I never thought rhythm could be tought ......apperantly I was wrong lol..... thanks for the upload 😁

Great tutorial, I've mixed trance for a couple of years and was wanting to mix different genre's brilliant tutorial mate!

Nice work bringing out the P.O.T. tune! Love 'em!

calm down. you keep saying how you are not so good, and your like "i mean i am pretty crap" but you are an amazing teacher. and i love all of your videos. they are so much help. im just starting to scratch and mix and you have taught me alot and given me a lot of encouragment. =]

You are just ahsum m8 =D I love your tut's and everything.. Helps me much

hey mate,sorry, was that chop it up on the 2nd beat (snare) ???

what a tune to bring in love danny byrd

very good tutorial, one of the best

Which EQs do I have high or low as a generally rule of thumb on main track and incoming track please?

i total feel it man thats a good way for beginers iv bin mixin for a wile and its grown on me but that way is spot on man respect vortecx !!!

really awesome m8!

You are soooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny. More importantly you taught me the importance of the snare. Thank you. Now I can DJ.

Nice vid mate. Enjoyed that =)

Thank you man, ur awsome !

When you're mixing drum n' bass and you've got two songs beatmatched (ON VINYL), will they remain in sync until they finish, or will they slowly go out of step; therefore requiring very slight pitch adjustments while they're playing?

You make it look so easy!

quality video, mate! cheers

This helped me out so much, absolute boss cheese

Great tutorial, helped me mix DnB!

Nice man, you make nice movies! I just recently started to DJ, a friend of me has a proper set and he helps me. He is not into dnb but I am, so these movies help out a lot! :) do you have any tips or advice when it comes to easy dnb songs to start of with? Like a track set of 8 numbers so I can practise with those. Thanks in advance!

Brilliant tutorials thank you very much

cheers ellaskins, i really like your tutorials, just 1 question m8, why do you prefer the hi hats to snare when you mix drum and bass? so many ppl say that, easier to find the snares, and I noticed same. By the way Im beginner in DJ-in'. Its a quite old video, hopefully, u will respond.

thanks look forward to it! j

you're the best!!!!!!!!

which drum is the snare? the round one right?

Can someone advice me a good tool for beginners?

Thank you Ella

Maan in 12 years thats still a really really good equipment

@amenKilla Totally agree with you mate, I was mainly thinking for newbies to beatmatching, to get them out of the habit of touching the plate too much at the beginning. Once the mix is in and its live to the audience, you need to touch the plate to catch it if one is going out of time

at 6.43 how did u know the drop was in.. ?? like when the other tune sed technology the other one dropped in.. ?? i keep seeming to miss the drops like this.. not off beat but not on the drop if use know what i mean.

you are such a boss

Thx alot for that video, I like DnB and breakbeat, but I dont really know how to mix it. That really helps me. As your vids usualy do :) ... I guess if you was my math teacher in school, I would have passed with 15 points instead of 4. Great job Johnny ! Please do some comedy vids again, I miss all the funny guys you are, lol ! Oh and by the way, great T-shirt drawing skills dude ;D Cheers, F

I love how the camera jumps when you do the kick drum @ 1:08 :D

because he is awesome

i am beginning to dj and i need to now if its good for me to mix real music or just rithums

As written in the information: Tune is Danny Byrd - Shock Out

what are you asking about exactly?

@anao22 This same poster has a great vid where he explains how to beatmatch. Basically, think of it like two cars racing side by side. If one is going faster, it quickly gets ahead. So the slower record has to go at an even *faster* speed to catch the other up. Then when they draw side by side, the track which was originally going slower is now the faster track, so when it gets ahead you have to slow it down quite a bit to have it drop back into line with the other car.

thxxxxxxxxxx!! more tutorial on using da mixer would be goodddd!

the beat that you explained is in fact more a typical hip-hop beat, kicks on 1 and 3 ( and then another kick halfway between 3 and 4 ). the d'nb beats have got the kick ( again typically ) not on the third beat but halfway between 3 and 4.

Man, I love u. Thank you very much, I'm from Russia, but I understood everything that you say, cuz you have very good british accent. Are you from England? :)

nice and easy to understand

my mann nice videos this shit helps a lot u have no idea

keep try it thx man

has anyone got anytips on how to beatmatch when using software? the bpms don't fully match so i always end up using the sync button rather than match it

whats the song ? plz

thanks very much, looks like I'm gonna have to keep making tiny adjustments then

Whats the name of the first track?!

ha great vid J, you've taught us how to mix it, but can you PLEASE teach us how to dance to the bloody stuff...damn, if someone told me to dance to that id be like: "wha??...."

Dope shirt..

how to mix mashup with dubstep,grime ,glitch hop or crunk hip hop...?? anyone ideass??

gawd that guy was funny, i actually kept my concentration, cheers :D

really need The prisoner of technology vs T.M.S trick'a'tek

song names?

ok ok ok i wanna learn how to like "make beats" "remixing" "deejaying" and stuff... where should i start?

in drum n bass the snare normally keeps the same tempo, its the kick thats the offbeat.. so its like kick----snare.. kick-snare

nice nice one. btw (noob alert!) what's the title of the second song?

sorry but whats the names of the tracks please?

What a top bloke brilliant explanations mate starting out as a noob and love my drum and bass so this is great thank you.

super

i have a big problem with bpm's cause it doesn't be all the time in same speed, it varies too much times...and i lost the mix, cause one song be more fast than other, so i feel a very big difficulty to control it...:S

Depends if theyre perfectly in sync, then yea they should continue in sync, if they dont change tempo ofc.

Nice! j

bib up from Poland/Ireland :) Łódz city Limerick city :)

that chop was nasty

thanks

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When he goes to lift the arm off the cd player. Funny as! This guy always makes me laugh. Very helpful too.

ooooh the snare is the round drum? i thought it was the triangular one

Shock OUT!

buen video amigo eres bueno para explicar de una forma muy extraña pero buena XD

finally got the shirt to match the hat

Thanks

Great video. I love drum and bass, but I spin minimal. Maybe now I can get into mixing some drum and bass haha. And to hypercatjohn, it was just a simple analogy, it wasn't like he was comparing Tchaikovsky to Tiesto. Why don't you go listen to some Chopin in your basement and cry =D

Byrd is the word

the best teacher xD

yeah mate, its same i reckon.. maybe lower bpm, tis called 2step drum pattern i believe

@anao22 But not as slow as the original speed, because you already know that's too slow. In this way you can tune in to the correct speed by oscillating between too fast and too slow, but by smaller increments each time. The difficulty then is to fine tune it. Your hand shouldn't leave the pitch control until you are sure it is beatmatched properly. Also, forget touching the plate, it's not for beatmatching. Leave the record alone and use the pitch control ONLY. I wish someone had told me that

Good video J. 2 step garage would have been an easier to understand introduction to music with a 2 step beat. I will get the cam out for a response. People seem to be confused by what was said. A D&B beat at it's simplest only has a kick drum on every other beat i.e. beats 1 and 3 and a snare on every other beat in between. i.e. beats 2 and 4. House on the other hand has a kick on every beat and a hi hat on beats 2 and 4. People confuse the snare sound and the kick and hi hat together sound.

What controller has those funky LEDs on the platters?

word!

all i really struggle with is matching the pitches together, I can never get it right, actually being creative after is no problem its just getting to that point of having them at the same speed I really struggle with

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