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

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!

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.

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 KZfaq. 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++

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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. 🎧🎤😎

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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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✌️

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

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 !!

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!

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

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

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!

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 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!

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

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

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.

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 🙏🏿🙏🏿

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

Must be the best video on the subject.

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 👍

I love your energy and videos .thanks👍😍

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

Best beat matching tutorial on KZfaq.

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.

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 .

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.

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

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

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

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

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

13:37 i knew you were gonna smash it in perfectly hahahaha

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 !

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.

I'm so glad i learned on Vinyl in the late 90's.

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.

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 👌🙌

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 👊🙏

Many tracks couldn't sync because they have swinging bpms and not every beat lines up with exactly 1bpm on the same time to the next beat... . Sometimes 1,15bpm anything else. Sync is only a option for me to mach high difference bpms from one track to another. You are a very friendly happy also high advance DJ and Dj Teacher . Thanks a lot for your amazing helpful clips. Best wishes from Germany Munich 🇩🇪

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! :)

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

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.

This helped so much thank u so much!!

I love your authenticity!

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

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

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!

Hey mate! I love your videos! Can you perhaps do a video about how to mix techno the best way? I already saw the tech house vid but I am more talking about the non-lyrical techno :)

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 😜

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

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 😊🎼💙

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

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!

Such a positive energy!!! Perfect explantation, my number one teacher!

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.

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

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!!

Awesome tutorial Thnks

Bravo

Thank you !!

excellent video! i just got one question. how do you beatmatch 2 songs where one of the songs has an intro without any bass? if you cant see the lines visualy i find it very hard to beatmatch because you only hear bass on one song. can anyone help me? :)

If you are a rekordbox user. You can switch to browse from 2 horizontal or vertical. This will take the visual line matching out. Then just don't look at the BPM. It's not hard to not look at the BPM it's tiny in this mode. This is the best way to learn to beatmatch by ear on a controller in rekordbox. When you think you have it inline then switch to the 2 horizontal. That will let you know. But be careful because you will be surprised at how many of your track lines are out and your ears picked it up.

I have always been dependent on beat sync but the guy I work with has more experience and he uses the BPM faders and the jog wheel and his ears to match the tempo of both songs. I really need to learn the Manuel way of beat matching more.

Thats clever to learn on same song to start of with

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

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

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.

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

Very informative. I will practice

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

Another great and informative video.. Thanks

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

This is excellent, well done

Really amazing video, homie

Good stuff u do, help me alot thx

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.

Can you share what tracks you was using please

Excellent tutorial. Even though I play mostly vinyl I usually have at least 2 bpm counters running when I play, and while I usually match the bpm's I still mix "blind", just because the bpm's match it doesn't mean the tracks blend well with each other. Half of the music I play wasn't recorded to a click track so you must use your ears, and you also should know the music that you're playing inside out. Perhaps it's just because I am a percussionist but if you can't mix contemporary pop club music blind you probably shouldn't be playing music in public. (I noticed when I shopped at Wax the DJ's behind the counter would beat match records they hadn't heard before, without headphones.)

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

Syncing is fine in clubs when you just want to get a perfect mix but if you’re at home it just gets really boring, best thing I did was ditch my cdjs for a pair of turntables. No laptops, no screen, no sync just you a mixer and a couple of turntables - so much more satisfying! Buying new vinyl and building a collection is a lot of fun too!

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!

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

Thanks bro, love your videos!

It's so easy to beatmatch on that cdj