As funny as it sounds… the secret to learning how to dj and beatmatch doesn’t actually have anything to do with beatmatching. (To see some video DJ Lessons on beatmatching sign up for our newsletter by clicking HERE now!
ALL new DJs struggle with beatmatching. Some more than others. This makes sense because the human brain isn’t trained to listen to two different sounds and determine their speeds. And the process of mixing takes it one step further because not only do we have to focus on two different songs… we have to be able to tell which one is going faster!
This is much easier to determine if you throw in the songs at the right time and the right speed… hence the importance of the “cue and throw”. It doesn’t matter if you are playing MP3s, Ableton Live, DJ Turntables, DJ CD Players, Traktor Studio or other Dj Software… The Cue and Throw are ESSENTIAL for DJing.
“Cueing Up A Record” means getting the record ready to play right on the first beat… and “throwing in a record” means playing that song at the right time and the right speed.
When you are starting out as a beginner dj learning how to dj take my dj advice and spend the time to master the cue and throw before you move on to beatmaching. It will make learning to beatmatch so much easier!
Well that is easy for you to say but nothing of what your talking about is helping we all know we need to practice why not tell us what goes threw your head as your cue up and throw a track out how do you determine what is a good mark?