How to prepare your DJ music for a gig 💃🏽
In this tutorial I teach you guys:
1. How to use Cue Points
2. How to Prepare your songs with Cue Points
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When you download a new song, they look pretty plain...
Technically, we can DJ with these songs no problem. But if you’re a beginner sometimes you just don’t know where to mix in, and mix out of a song.
This is where cue points come in, what they are is this:
They are control points on songs which you make, and they give you the ability to control and manipulate specific song sections.
So let’s say we put a cue point here, we can then activate, and play with that section like this, this or this. It’s totally up to you.
To make cue point, simply click a button here, or press anywhere here. To delete one you can either click it here, or press shift and that cue point which you want to delete.
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Now cue points have a ton of uses, but my favorite thing to do with them is use them as visual guides for songs
So when I download a song, I put at least 3 cue points:
1. Where I should mix in (intro)
2. Where the song begins
3. Where I should mix out
Let me show you an example:
So here’s a song I just downloaded. Let’s load it up.
Now I prefer to mix in with a 32 beat intro, so the first cue point will go here. How do I know? Let’s count…..
So the beginning of the song is here. This is where I’m going to place my second cue point which I will use as a visual guide. It’s exactly 32 beats from our first cue point.
My third cue point is going to be here, because this is the outro section of the song. I know this because from here on out, there is nothing but beats.
Keep in mind that, we can put a total of 8 cue points so don’t be shy in cue pointing your songs.