Thanks for the lesson. I stopped mixing when the world put a donk on it. Only used vinyl back then. Miss my 1210s. Got a simple pioneer dj sent just for fun but 15 years is a long time lol
If i can make a suggestion for a follow-up video I would be interested to see something on track preparation. In particular something on Hot Cue's / memory Cues. When I look at your mixes you seem to skip to interesting parts in a whiff. Just recently got back into mixing (like a month ago) after not spinning for like 10 years. Since I come from an analog background I notice I'm having loads of issues to scroll to interesting parts to chip in or to start mixing. I still miss my cue often on where to start beatmatching because i spend so much time scrolling through songs.
Great idea! Yes track preparation is a huge deal. In every track I add to my library I add cues to them. They are mostly for spots to mix in from, be it the intro, midtro, or climax. Sometimes they are just for sampling. Doing this makes it much easier to mix or do something creative on the fly. It's especially useful if you use Pioneer gear at home too because any festival or club event will have Pioneer CDJs. This means your library is all in one place and the things you're used to in your bedroom you'll be used to when you're playing in front of a crowd.
Also on vinyl you wouldn't be constantly beat matching. You prepare the bpms in the headphones while the first track is playing then when it's time to mix the bpm should be correct
reverse bass is what i like most... also some hard dance and hard bass. It is pretty hard to notice the difference between them, but if you know your stuff it is pretty easy
Thank fuck for rawstyle, I didn't like how euphoric hardstyle went it all sounds the same. I'm just grateful that I started raving when hardstyle was just forming and got to see it evolve, still love the early stuff.
amazing, I got one question do you listen on your headphones both songs or you switch and if you switch when do you switch and why, the rest was explained so well other tutorials didn't even learned me to count properly but yours is just perfect. also do you have a song list for me that I could start on to learn and master the basics, thanks!
I had decks a few years ago and used to mix hardstyle but I got so bored mixing it. All the 99 percent of the tracks had the same bpm and we're structured very similar. Still love the music to this day but so boring to mix.
Can I just say, the track you’re calling happy hardcore .. Darren Styles’ Save Me, isn’t happy hardcore. In the UK we call it hardcore but as there is a European genre called hardcore already (the one you’ve shown which we call gabber or gabba ) we call our hardcore UK hardcore. Happy hardcore is a different genre altogether, earlier than UK hardcore … go lookee. Great vid btw 😊
Great tutorial. The vast majority of Hardstyle I have doesn't start with beat, it starts with some vocal or some euphoric sounds, which then builds up into beats. As the tracks are only 3 or 4 minutes long, if I beat match when the beats start, at least 50% of the incoming track has gone before it's even been brought in. And there is no concept of timing with the melody without beats. How do you mix these types of tracks?
Ah those would be radio edits, those are cut without the intro and outro as they are meant for the average music listener. You will want to buy the extended mixes of tracks. Radio edits are usually 3 minutes long and extended can vary, anywhere from 3 minutes in a short track to 7+ in the longer ones (hardstyle tends to be 4-5 usually, trance for example is often 7+).
How can you not mention, Revers Bass ? i never heard one track. Revers Bass Hardstyle is The only sound we love here in the UK. All the other style don't come close.
Not mention in the genre part I'm guessing? I wouldnt really call it it's own genre, it's just a style of kick used in hard dance. Many hardstyle tracks with reverse bass also have a pitched kick too. Definitely a fan of reverse bass though! So much energy
so what is the difference between early hardstyle and classic hardstyle? the kick/bass in early hardstyle bounces back more while in classic hardstyle we already have that continuos impact more? i want to know because i want to know what that bouncing bass hardstyle is called, since i find it is the best music to shuffle dance to.
Early hardstyle has a very simple sound to it. It kicks pretty hard and doesn't get too melodic. Classic hardstyle is when the pitched kick started to come in (Donkey Rollers made the first track with it iirc) and we started to get more melodic with breaks before the climax. Early hardstyle is definitely shuffle tunes!
Outro is the easiest way to mix in a new track, it is the tried and true method. However, a mix of only intro and outro for an hour can be a bit boring. Definitely worth experimenting! That being said, you should probably get very good with intro and outro mixing before worrying about too much else.
@@TheDiscipleDJ Oh btw...in terms of the tempo range on the decks is it wise to set it on +/- 16 seeing that a lot of hardstyle songs are like 150-160 or 165 bpm?
@@TheDiscipleDJ yea where you count to 4 eight times for one phrase (i call it a section, dunno why), i count to 8 four times. like the vocal in the kgbs - techno gym. your way is more correct seeing as one bar equals 4 beats but ive been doing it my way for years so theres no breaking that habit.
Man you explain your tutorials so perfectly please do a raw/xtra raw one! 👌
Cheers mate! Next one will probably be on music organization :)
great vid, learned more in those 5 min that you explained how to mix songs like that than I did from any other tutorial
Happy to hear it helped!
Just started mixing hardstyle myself and ive found this very useful you broke it down really well and was so easy to understand
great tutorial. i just started mixing with a ddj400 and this is such a good tutorial! thanks dude :D
Happy to hear it helped!
Thanks for the lesson. I stopped mixing when the world put a donk on it. Only used vinyl back then. Miss my 1210s. Got a simple pioneer dj sent just for fun but 15 years is a long time lol
great video man, well explained, great knowledge of the harderstyles too
thanks for an amazing video! great info and many good laughs at the dancers
Thanks a lot man , really appreciate the information you gave .
I really love your dancers you chose as examples. And great video overall!
If i can make a suggestion for a follow-up video I would be interested to see something on track preparation. In particular something on Hot Cue's / memory Cues. When I look at your mixes you seem to skip to interesting parts in a whiff. Just recently got back into mixing (like a month ago) after not spinning for like 10 years. Since I come from an analog background I notice I'm having loads of issues to scroll to interesting parts to chip in or to start mixing. I still miss my cue often on where to start beatmatching because i spend so much time scrolling through songs.
Great idea! Yes track preparation is a huge deal. In every track I add to my library I add cues to them. They are mostly for spots to mix in from, be it the intro, midtro, or climax. Sometimes they are just for sampling. Doing this makes it much easier to mix or do something creative on the fly. It's especially useful if you use Pioneer gear at home too because any festival or club event will have Pioneer CDJs. This means your library is all in one place and the things you're used to in your bedroom you'll be used to when you're playing in front of a crowd.
Also on vinyl you wouldn't be constantly beat matching. You prepare the bpms in the headphones while the first track is playing then when it's time to mix the bpm should be correct
wow what a wicked video. great information.
Intro, midintro, drop, break, climax buildup, drop, break, build up, drop, midoutro, outro
What is the difference between a drop and a climax?
Wish someone told me this when I started out😂. Nice vid for the beginner!
Good video!
Bro your my hero! Thxx❤❤
It’s crazy crazy CRAZY frog !
ahhh, i think i know where im going wrong. thankyou for this :P
Actually an informative video, instead of leaving it at "Beatmatch" thank you very much! Please do other hard genres too
It was a challenging wank but i got there :)
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Wooww this is amazing 👍perfect tutorial
Awesome tutorial! This was exactly what I needed. One question: where do you get your music ?
Cheers mate! I buy my music from Junodownload.com, hardstyle.com and on the rarer occasion beatport.com
reverse bass is what i like most... also some hard dance and hard bass. It is pretty hard to notice the difference between them, but if you know your stuff it is pretty easy
Can do this for all the other genres of Dance Music
thank u - so in love haha :D
Thank fuck for rawstyle, I didn't like how euphoric hardstyle went it all sounds the same. I'm just grateful that I started raving when hardstyle was just forming and got to see it evolve, still love the early stuff.
Great vid! cheers!
amazing, I got one question do you listen on your headphones both songs or you switch and if you switch when do you switch and why, the rest was explained so well other tutorials didn't even learned me to count properly but yours is just perfect. also do you have a song list for me that I could start on to learn and master the basics, thanks!
I had decks a few years ago and used to mix hardstyle but I got so bored mixing it. All the 99 percent of the tracks had the same bpm and we're structured very similar. Still love the music to this day but so boring to mix.
Should i buy a deck with usb or a deck were i can adapt my laptop
Can I just say, the track you’re calling happy hardcore .. Darren Styles’ Save Me, isn’t happy hardcore. In the UK we call it hardcore but as there is a European genre called hardcore already (the one you’ve shown which we call gabber or gabba ) we call our hardcore UK hardcore. Happy hardcore is a different genre altogether, earlier than UK hardcore … go lookee.
Great vid btw 😊
hey what is the song used in this tutorial? great vid btw
Sorry for the late reply! Which part?
what do you think of hardstyle and hard trance being mixed togetherrr :)
Great Tutorial :D
Can you tell me what the composer from the Track ´´Crazy“ is, please?
Udex! Highly underrated artist imo
lmao at the clips you used to explain the genres
Great tutorial.
The vast majority of Hardstyle I have doesn't start with beat, it starts with some vocal or some euphoric sounds, which then builds up into beats. As the tracks are only 3 or 4 minutes long, if I beat match when the beats start, at least 50% of the incoming track has gone before it's even been brought in. And there is no concept of timing with the melody without beats. How do you mix these types of tracks?
Ah those would be radio edits, those are cut without the intro and outro as they are meant for the average music listener. You will want to buy the extended mixes of tracks. Radio edits are usually 3 minutes long and extended can vary, anywhere from 3 minutes in a short track to 7+ in the longer ones (hardstyle tends to be 4-5 usually, trance for example is often 7+).
Can you talk about the breaks they kinda f me up in my mixes
Good vid
How can you not mention, Revers Bass ? i never heard one track. Revers Bass Hardstyle is The only sound we love here in the UK. All the other style don't come close.
Not mention in the genre part I'm guessing? I wouldnt really call it it's own genre, it's just a style of kick used in hard dance. Many hardstyle tracks with reverse bass also have a pitched kick too. Definitely a fan of reverse bass though! So much energy
What was that DNB track
Sorry no clue
what’s that song 18:36
Headhunterz - The Fear of Darkness
Name of psy track?
Sorry not a clue lol
What was that example for the happy hardcore track? :D
Save Me by Darren Styles
so what is the difference between early hardstyle and classic hardstyle? the kick/bass in early hardstyle bounces back more while in classic hardstyle we already have that continuos impact more? i want to know because i want to know what that bouncing bass hardstyle is called, since i find it is the best music to shuffle dance to.
Early hardstyle has a very simple sound to it. It kicks pretty hard and doesn't get too melodic. Classic hardstyle is when the pitched kick started to come in (Donkey Rollers made the first track with it iirc) and we started to get more melodic with breaks before the climax.
Early hardstyle is definitely shuffle tunes!
@@TheDiscipleDJ thanks a lot! uuuugh do you know how i can set up youtube so i will get notified when somebody replies to my comments?
It's called Reverse Bass.
@@JusticePreyHDM Make It Loud (Headhunterz Remix) is reverse bass and reverb rumble kicks in hardstyle is early hardstyle?
@@sickheadofficial yes, it is
What's the track you used as an example of hardcore called? 4:02
Sorry for the very very late reply but it is Tha Playah - The Impact
@@TheDiscipleDJ Thanks!
Around 2007 is when a lot of hardstyle heads decided the sound went bad
7:40 what song is that
Regain - About Me
could you teach me more lol
Question...will the outro be a better place to throw in the next song in the mix?
Outro is the easiest way to mix in a new track, it is the tried and true method. However, a mix of only intro and outro for an hour can be a bit boring. Definitely worth experimenting!
That being said, you should probably get very good with intro and outro mixing before worrying about too much else.
@@TheDiscipleDJ Ok so just focus on the intro/outro as a starting point?
@@MrMattias87 That combined with beatmatching yep!
@@TheDiscipleDJ Ok thanks. do u have a facebook that i can follow for any further tips?
@@TheDiscipleDJ Oh btw...in terms of the tempo range on the decks is it wise to set it on +/- 16 seeing that a lot of hardstyle songs are like 150-160 or 165 bpm?
huh i always counted 8's, does the same job i guess
Could you explain? I'm curious! I've just always counted the way I showed in the video.
@@TheDiscipleDJ yea where you count to 4 eight times for one phrase (i call it a section, dunno why), i count to 8 four times. like the vocal in the kgbs - techno gym. your way is more correct seeing as one bar equals 4 beats but ive been doing it my way for years so theres no breaking that habit.
@@g0ld3nchee5e Ah interesting! Yea that would be a hard habit to break hahaha.
Dude your sound levels are all over the place, either i can not understand you or hardstyle is blowing out my ears. Lol
Might be on your end mate, I've watched through the whole thing multiple times and not had issues.
euphoric or EDM. both the same - both lame