I believe it was Lane that had a link to something on bmp in DP's old FAQ that was pretty good. As far as advice on keeping your beats matched, the number one thing is, of course, practice and becoming better and better at hearing the mismatch of beats. But until you become more proficient at beatmatching you can improve the length of your matches by allowing the records to play together longer while matching. What I did while first learning to do very long transitions was start the second record, and then roughly adjust the pitch. A rough adjustment should hold the beats matched for at least 8 or 16 measures. At this point, let the record keep playing until the beats start to separate again and adjust the pitch accordingly. The key to this is to be using incrementally smaller adjustments until the beats are perfectly matched. Learning the ability to match the beats in your headphones in this manner will help you learn two more advanced techniques that I'd really like to see discussed in here. The first being pitch bending, and the second being what I call progressive mixing.
Pitch bending is a style of beat matching wherein you don't touch the record to adjust it. You start the record and then overcompensate with the pitch bar to match the beats back up, and then adjust the pitch accordingly to keep the beats matched. Say you start your record and it is at 0%. Then the beat begings to fall behind quickly so you overcompensate to, say 6% to catch the beat back up. Once the beat is caught back up, you slide the pitch back to a faster speed than your original, we'll say 2% and continue as such until the beats are matched perfectly. (Keep in mind I pulled these numbers out of my ass, they don't really mean anything) Mixing in this style does two things for you. One, it allows you to mix very accurately. Most of you have noticed that different records handle differently. And it's not very hard to make a mistake while adjusting the record manually. Second, it allows you to mix very quickly. Once you are good enough at it, you can basically throw your record on, make a few adjustments, and begin mixing it in and making minor adjustments while in the mix.
The other method, which I call progressive mixing(anybody heard this called something, cause I just made it up) is very similar to pitch bending but you can touch the record. When using this style, I will start the record, make a few rough adjustments and start to mix the record in. While the record is playing, I will continue to make minor adjustments..and eventually not have to adjust at all.
Now keep in mind, for you newer dj's, that both of these are fairly advanced techniques that require you to already be very good at beatmatching. You need to be good enough at hearing differences in the beats that you can make adjustments before they are ever noticable.
Anyone have thoughts on these techniques?
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