Most of the music you will DJ with is likely to be in this time signature, and the \’four beats in a bar\’ connotation is the most important thing for DJs to remember. How \’four four\’ time is written in musical notation. A slightly more involved and encompassing concept than merely the time signature of a piece, it also refers to the way that notes within a piece are stressed and syncopated and otherwise fall on the musical timeline. To make matters more complicated, the metre – certainly the time signature – doesn’t need to match exactly for a successful mix to take place, but the two tracks will need to have a common denominator, so to speak. Our inference of the rhythm of a piece of music is referred to as its “metre”. However, actually doing it is the most important thing – so please read the following, but if you struggle, move on to the steps below and have a go. There’s no getting around it – understanding the musical theory underneath beats and bars is going to help you with beatmatching.
It may sound a bit artsy, but the more you “bond” with your music and methods, the better a DJ you will become. Using sync is fine, but you need a backup.Īnother reason is much more to do with your connection to your music.
Plain and simple, BPM counters make mistakes, transients are misread, and of course sometimes things don’t even operate in the same way on other equipment. So before we proceed, let’s remind ourselves why it’s a good idea to learn to beatmatch. The most obvious reason is that software is not always right. You might have dipped your toes before but the safety of the sync button was too great a lure. What follows is a beginner’s guide to beatmatching, and why it’s a good idea to learn there’s an eight-part guide to performing your first beatmatch, and three further expert tips to make it easier for you… Why learn the hard way at all? To learn to beatmatch or not to learn to beatmatch… well, as this series is all about skills you don’t have to learn, but really should, we’re assuming you’re still reading this because you’re one of those who wants to! Because while taken totally at face value, beatmatching is an artless task, the understanding required to perform a beatmatch manually is invaluable. This is the third part of a fortnightly guest series by Chris Cartledge of Waveforms are invaluable in helping the brain to better hear what\’s going on when beatmatching manually.
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