This man really did teach/inspire a generation of djs 😭

This , ladies and gents is what a beginner lesson should be like. Simple and to the point ! Ive been on the decks since 94 and still learnt some good points ... That's a true teacher . 👍🙌

You can see the experience oozing out of this man. Been watching his vids since my 20s. Im 40 now

What are the greatest DJ teachers ever born or alive people this man

Just stumbled across this video after going through a nostalgic rabbit hole of James Zabeila sets and as soon as I heard his voice I was like “hang on a sec…” I’m 40 now and was being taught to mix by this guy in the early 2000s!! What a legend that he’s still going! Thank you for all you taught me man!!

Always enjoy your Vinyl Mixing tutorials. I have been a DJ for over 30 years and nothing is more satisfying than to mix 2 records in perfect beat and key and keeping the flow of the music going. Keep up the Vinyl lessons, they are always helpful.

Took my turntables out of storage and broke out all my old dnb, attempting to knock the rust off after 15 years. Struggling to cue, beatmatch, phrase match and EQ properly again. Thanks for the refresher now it's just practice practice practice ftw.

learning vinyl after being a digital dj and is a whole new ball game, even more respect for OG vinyl spinners!! this is helpful , thank you

Loving the scales analogy - flour on one side and coke on the other 😆👍

There is also another way....: This is all very fine, but applies mainly to House, Trance, etc, which were produced with beatmatching in mind. I am mostly playing Classic and Northern Soul as well as vintage Boss Reggae, so no long instrumental intros or outros, nor extended breaks. So I beatmatch New York Style, like Cool Herc did in '73, fading over just the bass (i.e, kickdrum) from track B to track A, while fading out the bass of track A, so you've got the bass track of track B accompanying the mids and highs of track A. Let this run for a moment, and then fade out midst and highs from track A whilst fading in mids and highs from track B. This way you avoid clashing vocals, harmonies, melodies, keys, etc. Full kill on all 3 frequency ranges for both channels is a must for this, but if you can: try it. It's really something else, it's really fun and it really excites the punters!

Checking back in after 16 years, learnt so much from this man watching his videos in the local internet cafe and then going home to practice pitch riding. I'm now in my 40's and teaching my girlfriend to mix so came back for a teaching refresher.

Thank you mate. I've watched a lot of videos on this subject and you're the first DJ to speak about the musical side of mixing, not just the technical beat matching side of it. Awesome. Very useful.

Honestly….. I taught my self to play vinyl over the past 2 years snd I feel I’m pretty good….. scratch that, I taught my self and saw some of your videos. You’re well versed and give good info in a short amount of time. We appreciate your info bruv. I wish I didn’t have to learn about spl the hard way. To those learning…. If appears from what Iv seen that some people have a natural musical mind. Beat matching vinyl is a little hard at first, making sure you’re in “season” with 8/16/32 counts is even harder. Those whose brain doesn’t subconsciously count beats/melody’s are at a disadvantage. To some people, the cyclic nature of music, the “law” that is that law for how ever long that track is, and the physical manipulation of media just does something to satisfy the neurons when that mix is just right.

this guy right here is a blessing for anyone who wants to learn about becoming a DJ, thank you for posting and please keep it going.

Thank God/The Universe for Ellaskins! Your lessons are gold!

Excellant video Jonathan! Thanks again for your information. I find vinyls, quite difficult for me to mix actually. These tips really help! 👍🏼

Grande 👍👍👍 Ti seguo da almeno 20 anni Ce sempre da imparare da te... Un saluto da l'Italy

Dude can I just say I’ve been watching you since I was a wee young lad, only ever laying eyes on gear in your videos back in the days of early KZfaq. You helped me grow into the DJ I am today more than I realized until now that I’m seeing your videos again for the first time in what feels like eons lol big love Ellaskins 🙏🏼 keep teaching and inspiring, maybe I’ll show my young pup your videos when’s he’s old enough to chop it up ❤️

Great 👍👍👍 I've been following you for at least 20 years There is always something to learn from you ... Greetings from Italy

Great video - doing only vinyl too and in some case its rly different. What i like on djing only vinyl, is that u got something IN ur hands. Something that u can rly touch.

Ellaskins I love you honesty and the breaking down of what your doing ., very cool 👍

Brilliant thank you sir, great lesson. Note to self, try and remember what you have just been taught. Stay safe

Thanks for this video man, I'm 24 and currently learning to mix on vinyl with my mate! This video really helped me step in the right direction :)

Love love love you videos! So informative and entertaining! Good vibes all around man

Fantastic tutorial, and delivered with no ego. Thanks!

Great job done I really enjoy that, and I love vinyl all the way I know where he's coming from, he adds fun to his mixing which great and must always feel relaxed otherwise your mix will not stand out, have fun and, get it done...!! thanks. Bless you😇😇🙏🏿🙏🏿

So much practical knowledge. I will definitely check out more videos from you. Thanks !!! 👏

Looking forward to another year w your tutorials and storys 🕺✌️

i genuinely feel privileged to be one of the few who have seen this video so far. i say few because it deserves hundreds of thousands, its that sort of quality. who said good things aint free!?

Easy to learn with this dude. Explains it how it is

As much as I love my pioneers...your so tempting me to get some more vinyl and a set of decks....its been more than 25years since I played on set.

awsome, nice tutorial. I might just add that for knowing the song frazes and beats, its really important that you are able to hear it and count it in your head, knowing when 16 beats passed, or 32 when it comes for drop in. Without this rhythm, its hard to be dj.

Awesome video! Super helpful and straight to the point! 👍

What a LEGEND! Great lesson. Hoping to pull off my first vinyl set soon!

Teach them because those who want to listen can obviously learn from this good up big man

I started sodding about mixing music about 3 yrs ago and gone down the digital route, would of loved to have been a vinyl junkie but that's a bit hard to do if you haven't been collecting vinyl for years or your not lucky enough to find someone with a job lot to sell, I would of got bored very easily....I bought some controllers and a week later had over 9000 tunes to do some bad mixing with (and hand on heart, can honestly say that I've never used the sync button). So unless you all want to donate 10 bits of quality vinyl each and in return, i'll happily find space for some decks, please stop knocking us digital junkies just because we have newer stuff with more flashy light on 😉.....it should be about the music and atmosphere you provide. Peace 💛

Dude its crazy i learned how to play on cdjs from you back in 2010-13 something. Keep it up!

Thanks bro for the video. Really enjoyed your teaching.

Searched for "vinyl dj fundamentals". This is first in the list. Thank you and have a good one.

Awesome lesson. Cant believe ive been moving the pitch and the table same time trying to match. Haha. Oh yeah! Half hour agter watching this! 🎉🎉🎉. Thank you!

Salute you Ellaskins….My Sensai Vet DJ teacher🚨🚨🚨🚨🤓Loves the teaching and pointers as Always….

Respect from Greece 🇬🇷👍👍👍

youtube just started to recommend your channel after 10+ years again and I realised how cool you are, I can guarantee you 111%

Obviously we need people like you

it always amazes me watching a dj on vinyl get a track matched together in less than 4 beats.

After the first 9 seconds I could tell this was going to be a great video!

Nice video! If you really get into trouble you could always cue the second track to beat three before the verse, then do a big spin back on the currently playing track then immedialely start the second track and flick the cross fader over so it comes in on beat one of the verse.

Never seen anybody beat match without touching the platter (pitch fader alone). Amazing!

I came to refresh some knowledge and man I forgot that basically you teach me how to DJ, you are the man

He makes it look so easy!

Love that the cocaine joke finally appeard. Thanks for the help, so good content man. Best wishes

Legend amongst legends

started with you on digital decks now im back again learning for analog decks

Straight forward and to the point. 👍

Awesome. Great videos. Thank you

wow this really explains everything!! now i understand why the DJ like always turning the vinyl back and forth while the song is playing

You are making it fun. I love that! When you said "I would be deaf. Pardon?! " lmao 😂 Thank you for spreading the knowledge!

amazing man thanks 🙏

Its always good to know your music...

2 gorgeous tracks btw

Amazing video! Any tips on not having the needle jump when cuing up the first downbeat? I believe I have my torn arm height and weight correct but sometimes the needle jumps when cuing on the first downbeat. Any tips?

I've tried to show folk how to mix in my time with turntables. The hardest part is trying to explain music timings. For the majority of dance music its 32 or 64 beats. Theres 2 really important parts to mixing. 1. Make sure you have the same genre of songs, you can drop the occasional "different" tune to give a lift or break up the monotony. However, constantly changing your song genre makes it messy and youll have confused people on your dance floor. 2. Probably following on from above, know your records, know what direction you want to take folk. If you're playing weddings, have a collection of songs for everyone there. If youre playing a house night, make sure its house records and not pan pipe records. There's an art to this, but also you can have shoddy mixing and great tunes.

It's so hard to find a good tutorial on beatmatching with vinyl decks. Thank you!

You man ... you make it look so easy. :D Great vid. Thank you.

simple thing .. hold the snare on a record , wait for the downbeat and release the record when snare hits . Means less chance of missing your moment . Between turntableism , jungle/dnb and garage / bassline i find it a useful way to mix

Cheers, great tutorial, off to get my record players back out & give it a try. :)

I have one of those DJM 250 mk2's. I just use it for scratching now as the crossfader is awesome. No booth output sux though.

This video, every so called DJ needs to watch. If you can mix using vinyl, the rest is a cakewalk. Pay attention young fellas

Jonathan, you convinced me to convert from digital to the real vinyl. Thank you very much. Now I have to spend another 2000 euro for gear. 🙄 Cheers mate! Great video, very helpful. Keep it spinning. 👌🙂

Would be great if you did a video specifically on how to know intuitively which track is faster or slower and how to speed it up/slow down accordingly.

Thanks for the lessons, from a decade ago.

Quite happy to send you my heart dance mix just through my phone you send me your best mixed through what you've got Colt 45

The orchid was so funny man ! Great video. Thanks.

6:10 - I came specifically for this technique here, but it's brushed over xD

AWESOME!!

thanks for the introduction!

Legend ellaskins!

незнаю английский, но тебя тааак приятно смотреть и слушать ))))

check-check, vinyl lover mixer, I'm gonna share this to more people because it is good

great tutor.thankyou dj

You are my Master ♥️

Thank you sir 🤝👍great video

Really hope this guy’s a music teacher, reminds me of my old guitar teacher. Always cracking banging jokes

Brilliant tutorial

hey great video! i know this is a bit late but could you link your gear? what turntable, mixer, headphones etc

great video!!

Legend🍀

Question you have two records one starts playing you want to mix the other record with the one is playing what is the best moment (que point) of mixing them together in the song ? listning to the record that is playing .. and are you then remixing alsow ?

Valuable information

Love all your videos! You're a Dude.

I've always thought, how am I gonna hear my headphones over the two huge subs and speakers on a stick... or the club soundsystem? But it's never been a problem. Next month we are gonna set up a pretty big system on the beach. Not 50,000 watts but at least 8 huge speakers are gonna be set up and I believe we are gonna have a blast :^) A friend of mine did 14 years in federal prison but the last year he has been out, and he has been pulling money out his ass and buying lasers, speakers, amps, etc. We are trying to have a successful liftoff in a town that has never had a big scene.

Wonderful lesson, thank you! 🙏 can I please get your contact info for a virtual lesson I have a few questions about mixing? Sincerely, Jen

good video!!!

I rate these turntables highly, I have a pair of these, Mk2s and Mk7 and all have their pros and cons

do u have any insight into how i can run serato with only vinyl? seems to be lmiting my options

Currently saving up for some used turntables and a mixer. I'll propably use DVS since i won't be able to buy enough records to have a good collection. I've been using a controller for a bit over a year now and i want to move towards turntables since my favourite way to mix is EQ mixing and beatmatching, doing slow transitions and stuff. I feel like turntables would be better for my "Style" of DJing.

Good point outs but as an experienced vinyl DJ of old here i don’t do any of that above i just know by ear instantly when to mix in & what works the most vital part is knowing which record is faster then the other ( adjustments & mix recovery ) you can get any mix in time but the trick is to keep it there tight by listening & working up the vibe .

love u bro

Legend

I have a question does your vinyl get ruined Quick? I’m not into scratching but I also know just by touching your vinyl it can get ruin. I want to get into mixing like this I just don’t know if your vinyls will mess up.