5 Tips to Successful DJ Chopping

[@williamvickers6473]

You’re a powerhouse when it comes to teaching the art of djing. You’re the only one I know who makes it totally relatable and understandable in a way that is not daunting. Please don’t stop creating your dj school videos. I honestly believe that the understanding, motivation and skill increase in the fine art of mixing is increased exponentially from your content. I know I’ve said similar things in some of your other vids but i never comment on videos unless they are close to my heart. Thanks a million for your candidness and for being the teacher you are. I hope everyone buys your course. I can not think of a better person and course to give my money to! In a year or so I may even book a course in Sydney. Thanks for keeping me inspired and confidential. Keep up the amazing content! 🙏🙏🤙🤙

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

I appreciate this so much William - thank you :) :)

[@vasserdante]

Could u please make a video on different mix techniques for dubstep and riddim? That would be amazing

[@enmehm6521]

yes pls

[@TheWildmanLuger]

Second this

[@Phatdik]

Third this

[@littlefela6889]

Become squnto

[@drew4298]

YES please

[@catsarentviolent6039]

I've been mixing on my phone for almost a year now and i got my first controller a couple weeks ago so finally could put to use what i've learned here. You helped me a lot

[@DJvioletaXDJvX]

this channel has helped me so much over the months~ whenever I feel ready to tackle a subject that seemed way too difficult at one point, I refer to your vids! thank you!

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

Happy to help!

[@josuastangl7140]

I love this channal, man, learned a lot from you and you have a great positive vibe. I always have to smile and don't know why, love how you're just spreading happienes.

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

This is so nice to hear thank you :)

[@Shwahface]

Andy C- The Executioner. He's always been the singular biggest inspiration for me when it comes to mixing. Been lucky enough to be right next to the booth watching him do his thing more than once. The guys is a machine.

[@Shwahface]

@Paul Osc Slots It's the stuff he pulls off, while never making mistakes.

[@aidanthestuntmanrogers4727]

Dare you to do an oldskool uk garage mix 😁

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

Challenge accepted. Added to my to do list :) Any chance you could help me out and send me some tracks and artists to include to minimise my research time - [e-mail]

[@brianmccloskey8575]

Thanks for making my mixes 10 times better, keep the good work up bro! Big love from Ireland!

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

My pleasure!

[@guyhetman2975]

Awesome 👏 also enjoyable to watch Xmas to you and family.

[@kerrywilliams2329]

Merry Christmas Andrew

[@DanielCabrera-iq6un]

Great video! would love to see some quick chops or even a mix on hard techno/schranz. These are genres where all songs have similar energy so the flow and variance of the set is determined by the djs ability on chops/fx/accapellas.

[@chalitandunu681]

Yes please 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@kingsfan2099]

That drum and bass chop is cool...

[@huwwackman]

Always enjoy your vids. I'm an OLD DMC scratch dude and love this shizz. I use the cross fader to do chops as it frees up the other hand to with mess with eq's, filters. PEACE!

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

Makes sense actually!!

[@gabermraz2725]

might just be preference, but i see the cross fader to be less quick in switching between the two. I usually eq before the chopping anyway but think we all do as we feel hehe

[@huwwackman]

@@gabermraz2725 Cool, But you're using both hands on the up faders so no EQ control or ability to jump to other cue points on the fly. Defo not quicker with up faders. Either way that's why DJing is so amazing as we all have different quirks. PEACE

[@gabermraz2725]

@@huwwackman really is the best part of it all. Also i think we all grow on technique and adapt over time

[@callumparsons9454]

The tip 6 bit is so 🔥

[@sticksentertainment]

Chopping isn’t something I rehearse, and it isn’t even something I attempt unless I’m greatly familiar with the two songs I’m going to be chopping. It’s also something I do very sparingly. I think it’s also best to chop throughout the two songs rather than just a couple of times during them especially when the two songs are popular/crowd favorites. That’s my two cents anyway. Amazing job as usual on the tutorial! Love your videos!

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

Well said :)

[@earlwhiff2012]

Thankyou once again , I see more of you than my friends these days haha . Your my best virtual friend for shizz .

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

You're the best!

[@AuSCastDJ]

Great video like always, love the info great work keep doing what ur doing.

[@dirkshape1017]

the first example was realy good

[@razyel93]

Man, you are really awesome, I have been mixing for about 5 years but not as often as I would have liked. I do some of these from time to time but it's nice to have someone explaining to better understand the logic behind it. Almost all the DJs surrounding me don't use gimmicks, they are more of continuous and linear mixing. It's nice to have some skills that make you unique. Thank you so much. 🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@DJEL011]

Thank you so much, Guru.

[@vincntyler2019]

Andrew, as you know I have gone through your masterpiece of online course, what would be the next step/your next lesson that I can buy? I'm from Germany as you may remember and can't just fly over to Sydney. However, I promise to visit you one day in Sydney ;D For everyone else, I can highly recommend the course, Andrew doesn't say a word too much, he keeps his promise and I would buy a continuation anytime if it existed.

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

Did you buy the entire package and work through all the Performance Plus videos - next step IMO is always introducing a 3rd deck - especially once you reach a plateau :)

[@vincntyler2019]

@@ClubReadyDJSchoolYes i bought all 4 curses :D I gonna need a new setup , if i wanna start off with 4 decks. A two channel mixer with 4 decks makes it far too complicated :D At the moment im using the DDJ-SB3 by pioneer and it Imitates my self in many directions. I had the ability to play during a live stream on a DDJ-1000 and it felt like i would loose my shackles. never the less i would more likely go for a standalone, course my slowly laptop keeps me away from the daily training sessions.The DDJ-1000 is awesome, but i would prefer the XDJ RX2 or XZ The XZ would be perfect even if a CDJ 3000 setup is even more awesome, you have even more flexibility course of the way you see the wave form on the CDJ 3000, i don't even need hot cues on the CDJ 3000. BU i could not afford a 6.5K€ setup. also the XDJ XZ would be too expansive at the moent for me (2.2K€) I will have too make some money i guess :D

[@alexo9861]

Awesome. Thank you 🎧

[@soggyedits8524]

Loving the videos mate, keep it up! Would love to see you do a video reacting to / breaking down creative mixing of someone like James Hype. The passion you have shines through in your videos and its great to watch!

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

I have a whole course on this kind of thing: www.clubreadydjschool.com/courses/performance-plus/

[@blackatom8989]

Hello from Potts Point

[@eli-shulga]

how can anticipate that the chop is going to be not good like at 9:45 ? Knowing the tracks? Looking at the waves? That seems so hard to predict when doing these swaps (chops)

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

Trial and error mostly!

[@paddyinibiza]

Is this video included in your course? Couldn’t find it anywhere

[@chriischopz1038]

Specifically dubstep ( riddddimmmm ) ❤️

[@Sam.A.V]

Hearing Andrew play dubstep and trap for the first time 🤩🤩

[@justinrabaut]

Fantastic video as always. Keep pumpin !! I’m not sure if you do already and I just don’t know about it, but I would love to watch you dj on twitch. If it’s not something you are familiar with I’m sure people like Cleveland terry or mojaxx would talk to you about it! Any way love your stuff and you have been a huge inspiration for me.

[@cowboyhank456]

How do you mix tracks which fluctuate in BPM? I have a few which rekordbox either cannot seem to analyze properly, and at least one old disco track which goes from around 117 BPM up to 122, which means looping is incredibly hard and I'd need to adjust the BPM on the fly to make it work; it's almost impossible.

[@kitkatcomeonnow]

You could try set a manual loop, then beat match that with another track that has a consistent BPM, and then drop into that. I’m personally not sure how you could chop between tracks though, unless you constantly adjust the tempo to be in time and only chop in short bursts.

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

Quite a big answer is needed here as there are many variables, I'll work towards a video about this :)

[@kitkatcomeonnow]

@@ClubReadyDJSchool keep up the good work man!

[@gabrielwood3016]

I've had this problem. I ended using Ableton warping bar by bar to a continuous tempo. rekordbox also has a dynamic analysis setting you could check out - it's not perfect but it does automatically adjust tempo mid song. just remember to turn it off for tracks with consistent tempo

[@alex_georgescu]

@@ClubReadyDJSchool Andrew I’d love a video where you break down ways of mixing together 2 commercial songs (Rihanna, Pitbull etc), one at 65-70 bpm and the other at 85-90. I find it so tough because the vocals almost never stop, and this makes me lose all the hope for mixing at college parties for my friends.. 😭😭

[@mjdub]

Seems that matching gain very very well is critical to this working. Also, why the channel faders instead of cross fader?

[@mani321a32]

can you please make a video about how to set cue points for drum and bass songs 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@liftedaura99]

I never thought I would hear you say the word “riddim” hahaha

[@Atem_S.]

someone is having fun!!!

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

I hear that a lot haha ;)

[@tonyscholer1493]

Great video thank you. As a drummer of 30yrs, I have a lot of ideas for phrasing and tempo manipulation. Just not sure how it translates to the decks..... yet. I think you'd dig on "Tsundoku" - By Sili. It is a sick DnB track.

[@DJ_Patent]

The only chopping I’ve done thus far is with a plate of veggies. Thx!!

[@bmglamodebred3232]

What were the first 2 songs you used

[@SlavicPad]

What’s the song on the right @ 5:15? have been looking for the name of it for a while now!

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

London Burn it up :)

[@SlavicPad]

Club Ready DJ School And the left side? :o

[@SlavicPad]

^^^

[@kierran135]

@@SlavicPad Document One - Holy Moly

[@bigdaz7272]

Top Man :)

[@jesse5692]

whats this genre of music called

[@odinewb]

Brother if you want to keep gravitating towards Drum and Bass be my guest. Freestylers, Dom & Roland and sooo many others brought me into the fold of electronic music so many years ago and hearing DnB live sets always brings back the good vibes and nostalgia. Out of curiosity though, when DJing in a club how taboo is it to sprinkle in some old school tracks in with the new ones? Merely a bedroom DJ at the moment so I am my crowd and I feel I may be a bit biased with my track selection and set flows haha.

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

I like putting in old tracks - works a treat IMO :) I like keeping things fun, upbeat and familiar!

[@manfredobobadilla880]

Dude what’s the name of the song you’re chopping with Cheese? Absolute banger. Also, I fucking love your attitude and passion towards music, it motivates me into mixing more and enjoying myself!

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

The One (Effin Remix) Habstrakt :)

[@eoswald203]

chopping without the cross fader is wild like...jus why?

[@rustypipe]

if positivism could bloom you would be one massive sunflower 👍🏻

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

Hahaha thanks Rusty :)

[@marscrasher]

ngl i dont think u mean positivism

[@RG-dj1yn]

🔥🔥🔥

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

Thank you :)

[@DDadsge01]

Nice to see the different types of chopping. It's interesting to see the 'theory' behind it, I was just messing around so far and listening to the music, probably already did some of those chops without knowing. But Andrew, something that's been bothering me for a while now: how the hell do you hear your cueing song in your headphones? The volume mixer is always up to master, I'm always swinging around from left to right and you just stay on master without a problem. I don't get it 😅

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

On the club mixers (DJM), it's all about how balanced your channel levels are with your master levels - see how on the mixer my channel levels are so low - this is mainly due to me keeping the master output down for recording purposes - however this means the mixing dial needs to be closer to master as the cue channels are so much louder - hope that makes sense - kind of hard to explain.

[@DDadsge01]

@@ClubReadyDJSchool Ah yes, that explains it, it's a bit weird that it's different from the DDJ's tho. The way DDJ's do it seems more userfriendly to me. Since the master cue is based on the channels volume, you always get the balance right between the two channels when the headphone volume knob is in the middle.

[@ClubReadyDJSchool]

@@DDadsge01 Could't agree more - it's way more user friendly on controllers! Damn club gear haha ;)

[@DB82TECHNO]

I think this is how Fernanda martins mixes her hard techno.

[@TheSaabClinicUK]

She definitely Chops in and out of tracks quite frequently. I watch her alot.

[@kingcasts7054]

Wassup

[@stefschippers]

👊🏻💥

[@SirHefferlot581]

I paused that video at 19 minutes, loaded that handful of dnb songs that I have into Rekordbox and fooled around for almost an hour lol. Can you please make video about off beat mixing?

[@fedordoubov1752]

Funny enough there's a touring DJ called Squnto who basically launched his career by taking this concept to the absolute extreme: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ-5apmlad95f5o Very cool concept and I'm certain it took a lot of practice to nail the routine, but you're right it wouldn't come off anywhere else except a riddim/dubstep context in his case.

[@VictorKibalchich]

Sounds awful and he's not playing dubstep

[@raversparadise]

You are so gentle with your faders. Mine get seriously abused 🫣 Try breakbeat hardcore it's made for cutting 😁