Hey Luke, I just wanted to tell you how helpful, insightful and fantastic your vlogs are! You share so much amazing information and you are one of the most honest, helpful and best DJ's/Producers! I love your music and sets and wish you all the best in the future! Please keep up the great work Luke :)

I admire LL for his positivity and energy just as much as his music. Great shares !!

Congratulations on 15 years...Much success to you, Your business and everyone Involved, Keep up the the Good work and giving your insights, Much Appreciated.

Thanks Luke!! I just got my DDJ 400 today and this video will help me so much

Wow wow!!! This is the best about Cue Points......Thank You much!

Been catching up on all the vlogs and Luke, this one is GOLD! Very helpful! Thank you.

Literally just setting my cue points for a gig on the weekend and wanted some pointers so thought id check an old video on cue points and yours pops straight up, always a DJ life saver! :) Thanks Luke!

thank you very much your vlogs are amazing

Luke!!!! Thanks I literally asked for this I think a few days ago on one of your old vids. This is a great foundation to go off of. Needed this thanks!

Thank you Luke for these tutorials! I was inspired to implement the same cue colors to understand what was going through your mind in your sets and once I saw how flexible it was, I've pretty much stuck with it since haha

Awesome video. Just getting into the controller/digital aspect of DJ'ing have only been using vinyl for years so this is a whole new world.

I love these videos so much! You are so awesome!

So sick! I love this guy. If you haven't been to one of his shows, its a must on your bucket list.

I’ve been waiting for this one! Thank you Luke!

Hey Luke, I appreciate the knowledge. Your teaching style is on point. Keep it coming.

I have gone through many DJ's online Mixing Techniques (Lessons), But the way you explain things, All beginner can understand easily. Thanks for Sharing Techniques.

The most helpful tutorial as always is the case with most of your tutorials. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Hope You keep up those informative videos!✌😊 They are so helpful!❤

Love the content and advice you give the community enjoyed ur show in dc

Thank you for the great knowledge, Luke. Big love.

Thanks for your videos Luke - I've just received my first controller (which your channel made me buy) and I'm beginning the DJ journey :D I really appreciate them and all of your knowledge that you are sharing with us!

Been waiting for this video!

Very informative and helpful. Thank you. There’s so many tutorials out there and this one was simple to follow and get into your head

Congrats on 15 years!!!!

Hey luke, Just started learning to DJ and while I have a musical background, like any new skill it takes time. But your videos are incredibly inspirational and helpful. Thanks for that :)

This was again a real amazing vlog. More kind like this. Dealing with cue points even if you can have more than four of them could be really messy. Congrats again for the best DJ/Producer vlog here on KZfaq.

Well said Luke. The art of DJing or becoming an expert DJ does take lots of practice, searching for music old and new. Specifically learning to read a crowd weather its a nightclub, rave, bar, lounge, festival or renegade party. The skills of an expert DJ will develop over time as more people hear you play a musical journey that is carefully mixed, beat-matched, blended, faded, layered, processed and properly eq'd. Moreover becoming a expert DJ also means remembering to have fun. A expert DJ will not only sound amazing he will more often then not have a blast doing so.

Fantastic vlog. Very insightful, very helpful. Thx!

That's is a real info that I needed today! Thank you Very much

Great insights as always. New enough that your tips here will force me to go back and change my cues... AGAIN :) but always enjoy learning new tricks, getting better, and moving forward, Thanks again! :)

Thanks Luke Now I am one step further in playing with music. Really helped me

i will use this to fix my cue point I am glad I found your videos😁

Nice and helpful video! Thank you so much

Love your tips, stay doing It!

First of I’m sure many tutorials I’m about to watch from you learned a lot thank you 🙏

Thanks Luke, Exactly what i needed.

Man good timing! I was doing exactly this in Engine Prime - prepping for the DJ Prime 4 :)

Lukeee! You are my mentor! Loved the video, it helped me a lot! Thank you so much!

Good vibes luke!!

I've recently gotten into color coding my hot cues in a very similar way. Stuff I add are cool one shots (blue), kicks (purple), and snares (orange) for when I want to turn a track I to a finger drumming routine.

Lovin' that artwork on the back wall!

Love watching how other DJs use cue and hot cues for mixing. This is a great video because he shows you how he sets them with the context of other tracks and how he envisions mixing them. One thing I would recommend for DJs learning is to focus on mapping tracks out with cues first for navigation purposes and over time developing your hot cue game based on your own style. Never just blindly follow another DJS hot cue technique without staying true to your own style. Learn from them, don't emulate them.

Awesome tutorial! Thank you from Houston Texas!

Wow. Im glad I found this channel!

Hey luke, thank you very much for your tutorials, we all appreciate so much the hours you put into this tutorials even though you are a very busy man. I would like to ask you a tutorial on sound distortion, since that has been my main drawback while playing my sets, (i am a amateur bedroom dj by the way)

Damn Luke please release some updated versions of your classics! That would be sick :)

Quarantine days brought me back here to improve my DJ skills ! Thank you!

I do exactly this as well. But then again i got the idea from you 2 years ago :-) I use different colours, but it just makes so much sense to do this. As long as you have your cue points set this way you dont even have to know the track that well. If you hit Yellow for example, you know you have the vocal section.

As someone who just started out with dj'ing this helps out tremendously! Maybe you've already done this but an idea for a new vlog, you can explain how new dj's can get their first gigs and get their name out there. Thanks Lucas!

Hoi Luke, ik heb recent je tutorials ontdekt, erg inspirend om te zien wat voor technieken jij gebruikt dank voor het delen 😁

Knowing song structure over equipment functions all day thx big bro

Keep up the good work Luke... been watching your videos for a while ... those cue points comes in really handy... i use them to skip long tracks & hit the breaks & outro points quick... im gonna change it up a bit to be more creative... Learning more in the production side of things myself... great videos...

Took me a while to develop my own system by watching how others do it. I think over all consistency was key. I kept my methodology consistent with every song then it became second nature like a riding a bike!

Really good video for explaining how to do hot cues.

I like this, I needed this a year ago :D I personally color code more, like the 4 beats before the drop I code it Hot pink (or Purple if I were on engine prime) as it's close to red. I also differentiate the climax as Cyan. A dedicated color (in my case yellow but can do orange I guess) to warn I need to be careful using the hotcue, like if it's off beat or off bar or off phrase etc...

Hey Luke!! Love your channel and your vlogs. Extremely helpful. What do you think about the new Denon DJ Prime 4?

Thanks laidback luke helps a lot love from the philippines

Yes!

You are so coooll!

So helpful. Thank you.

Almost thought my Friday night was not gna be complete... 😮 LUKE!!!

Grande. Luke !!! Excelente. Como usar los hot cue !!!

Can't wait to get my first Denon Controller and start learning djing. This one will help 👍

You are AWESOME

Useful tips there for speed mixing ! Creative way to set up hot cues. For normal mixing I will prob go for Intro,Vocal & 8 bars Instrumental hot cue for each track. But then again it can be a breakdown process if you have a large amount of tracks and when you spend hours of finding those tracks...

Very useful,thanks!!

Nice to see Symphonic Rock in LL library too :D

Thanks Luke! Very useful! :)

Hello Luke thank you, I was happy to see that we set Hot cues in a similar manner and use the same colors with some of the same reasoning. This video gave some other ideas and I appreciate all that you share for those of use trying to make. Maybe I can give you a suggestion I use purple for my outro so I wouldnt get confused, maybe that can help but again thank you, I wish you had a techno label L's Up

Hey Laidback Luke, TSAS here. Very helpful video. I loved this tip in mixing EDM, where you have a DROP (usually short) and jump to the OUTRO sequence of the song, using the Hot Cue, so the crowd keep on dancing. This way I avoid making unnecessary "edit" versions of the tracks. Thumbs up! Best.

Nice!!!

Thanks Luke

Super Helpful thanks for this tutorial :) Would you be able to do a video like this but on Eq, Master and Trim Levels on a mixer?

A trance in my mind 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Your log s are very usefull . It improves my DJ skill

Hi Luke always watch your vlogs lots of respect..... any time will DENON let you play with the Denon prime 4 , looks amazing

Amazing

New subscriber here, new dj here. I'd be interested in your views of a 58 year old DJ :) . I just found your channel and I really appreciate this video that's 1.5 years old given that cue points, where to set them, and intro, chorus, outro sections are extremely important to learn. Consider me a blank slate with no preconceived ideas of how to DJ. My old school skills from over 30 years ago will help me to match beats by ear, but today's DJ is a complete show that blows away anything we could even conceive of attempting back then. I could share a ton of stories as to why today is better, but then again. I would just sound like an old "boomer". Keep up the great work and I plan on viewing more of your videos. I took up learning to DJ using modern equipment as a way to reconnect with my old friends (and new friends) in the music world. I just purchased a DDJ 800 to restart my hobby of reconnecting with music!

Thank you

Sad that you had to postpone your show at echostage last friday! :( BUT! Looking forward to February 15!

So damn helpful luke very nice 🙌🏽👍🏽🙏🏽

Hey laid back luke this video really help me understand how to set my hot cues for my mixes. Can you do a video on how to fix the beat grid of a song I found this out a couple months ago but don't really understand how its done it will be a big help thanks...

Hey Luke, love your vlogs the are very informative and insightful. I was wondering how do you feel about Dj's that use DVS? You obviously prefer the media players but your input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Could you do another video on how you utilize hot cues to shorten/skip portions of songs. And or how to drop mix?

Heres another one you should do a vlog about is active loops for when the other track is running out and have a loop that is ready when you press play so its on the active loop

Nice video thanks

Hahaha. Why didn’t you post this video last week? I swear I watched your transition video and Los Angeles video 50-100 times comparing the cues to how I set them as I was working on a mix. Thanks bro!

How about a video on how to mix in key using the prime series 🙏💥🎉

thx for info

My respect ✊ for you the best ever

Great video

Love you Luke❤

Luke, can you please do a vlog on organizing music library/crates?

Hey Luke! Thank you for the amazingly informative video :) How would you set up your cue points when you are playing techno for instance? A lot of techno productions (think Maceo Plex for example) often have a much different structure and I find it a lot harder to set accurate cue points that will aid in the mixing. Do you have any tips when it comes to that? Keep up the good work

❤️❤️

hey Luke , u can also make a video on how to mix tracks using cue point :)

Hey Luke when are you coming to South Africa again

Wow I really like Engine Prime. I use Reckordbox with a Pinoeer XDJ-RX2. Curious to see if it will let me colorize/label cues. I think it'll do colors...? I spend a lot of time pre-processing my sets. I like your workflow/organization.

hello Luke, when will you do a video of the new denon prime 4 controller???

When is that 'Meet me in Barcelona' track coming out Luke?