Beat Match City

Made with Logic Pro at 68 bpm Quick video on making a vocal-free instrumental from the original song. A little background: back when I was spinning vinyl (around 2002-2006), it was common to buy a single, and the single would come with an instrumental. Here's an example from my collection: Not as simple today, because those voice-free beats are hard (if not impossible) to find - as far as I know. Luckily, software like Logic Pro makes it easier to sift through a song, find the parts you like, then cut them out and loop them to make your own instrumental. In the case of Jay-Z's Big Pimpin, it's easy to just take the first few bars and call it a day. But for the purposes of a mix, remix or mashup, I wanted to find slightly quieter, flute-free bars that don't overwhelm the other tracks we're using. In this video, I found a couple pieces toward the tail end of the song and turned them into a 56 second mix with Day N Nite and What's Poppin.

Interesting mix of two songs, but I couldn't find a new direction beyond the initial loop, so we turned it into a tutorial. Nothing fancy, and maybe not the most efficient methods, but this is a good demo of how I start a mix or mashup. And maybe you'll see something you can use in the future. Featured songs: Power - Kanye West + Sunshine - Ant Beale, Charlie Heat

Interesting mix of two songs, but I couldn't find a new direction beyond the initial loop, so we turned it into a tutorial. Nothing fancy, and maybe not the most efficient methods, but this is a good demo of how I start a mix or mashup. And maybe you'll see something you can use in the future. Featured songs: Power - Kanye West + Sunshine - Ant Beale, Charlie Heat

In a perfect world, you throw in track after track in a mashup or mix, it all sounds good, and you're done. But in reality, you often go in one direction, and change a course a couple times. The Revert function takes you back in time to an earlier saved version, so you can try going in a new direction without starting at square one. Watch the video for an example. Link to our most basic (and popular) tutorial, How to Start a New Mix in Logic Pro .

When I'm making a mix or mashup in Logic Pro , it often becomes clear that an edit needs to be made. Maybe we want to try inserting a new song or sample into the middle of the project, or moving around pieces to improve the flow. But how do you do that without ruining the parts of the project you want to leave as is? In this video, we go over how to select multiple regions of a project so you can keep them together and move them around as one. Maybe more of an advanced beginner/intermediate level tutorial, but I think it'll still be useful for someone who's just getting started too. The featured project is my mashup You Know You Like Roses (ft. Eminem, DJ Snake, DMX, and Saint JHn) . And here's a link to our most basic (and popular) tutorial, How to Start a New Mix in Logic Pro . Background music for the video: Mellow Drama - sterling mercury

So I've been having some issues dragging songs from my itunes playlist into Logic Pro for my dj mixes. Here's a quick video of me starting Episode 71 of my mix show ; first two songs went in fine, but the third one wouldn't go in. So I found another way to import an audio file - a little more roundabout, but worked out in the end. Links: Download Logic Pro How to start a new mix in Logic Pro

Speed: 86.5 bpm The DJ's Take: Track #10 in mix #63 (17:06): For the transition out of Nelly's #1 into this song (at about the 16:10 mark), there wasn't any percussion, and I wanted to add a little something in Logic Pro X . So I went up top, clicked Track, chose New Software Instrument Track, and added a couple handclaps. Here's how it looked in my file (see yellow arrow): Worth a try if you want to add your own sounds/beats to an existing mix or song, or make a remix. Some other key-compatible music from 85 to 90 bpm: the ends - travis scott [86 bpm] Call Me - NAV, Metro Boomin [85 bpm] Not You Too - Drake, Chris Brown [43 bpm] 8 out of 10 - Drake [85 bpm] Peaches - Justin Bieber, Daniel Caesar, Giveon [90 bpm] Scared to Live - The Weeknd [44 bpm] Camelot - NLE Choppa [87-88 bpm] What More Can I Say - Jay-Z Just A Friend - Biz Markie All We Know - The Chainsmokers, Phoebe Ryan Him & I - Halsey, G-Eazy Slow Hands - Niall H...

My original plan was to go straight from Let Me Love You into Ransom. But the intro to Ransom is hard to hear because of the lack of drums; creeps up on you too much in my opinion. This is a quick re-cap of how we addressed it. Relevant links: #59 mix Key & bpm-compatible playlist Download Logic Pro X Let Me Love You - Mario Ransom - Lil Tecca