Im listening now...

right off the bat IMO the songs are played out too long. def need to cut them at like 2:30 or something. ill post again once Im done..again its all just constuctive. I still havent posted one so props on just posting one :)

aight listen to it all.

I dont feel as tho Im a prime person to give a critique cuz like i said I have to post anything for people to pick apart, but ill just give you my overall thoughts.

I like the song selection alot, but my biggest gripe is the length of the tracks like I said in my first post.
It was a 55 minute mix and there were probably only like 12-15 songs. When I do an hour mix I got upwards to like 25-30 cuz I kinda just cant sit there and let a song play out and in your mix I kinda lost interest after a certain length of time.

Some of the beats were off in some instances. Liek the check yo self into whatever that song was kinda was slighty train wreckish.

I noticed you juggled a lil which I enjoyed. you did one in the ODB track that was simple but it sounded good.

Overall I'd give it a 6.5/7. rough in some spots and ok in others. SOng selection again was fairly good.

so yeah,sorry if it comes off as asshole, but its all about helping eachother improve :) ima post a mix soon and just deal with what peeps say, so props on posting.

I'll download and check it out when I get home...

Just gave ya' a listen.

The 1st thing I noticed was the excellent sound quality of your mp3's. I need to stop ripping vinyl with those Shures...

Like tig ol' mentioned, the song selection was good but I couldn't appreciate the back-and-forth between East-coast and West-coast artists. Some were happy sounding like Naughty's Hip-Hop Hurray but mixed into a hard-core NWA F*ck Da Police.

I'd say, clump more of the like music/coasts together like HipHop Hurray -> If I ruled the World -> Born to Roll -> California Love -> This DJ -> Dre Day, etc...

Most Definitely, shorten the playtime on some of your tracks. I didn't even recognize some of the verses on certain songs because I've never listened to 'em that long, LoL.

Also, bring in some your song where the first verse or meat of the song begins instead of letting a long intro play out (ex: your Born to Roll mix). That's all a part of practicing your timing.

None of the mixes sounded like Clydesdales which is good. You've got good choices in music on there. Heat it up by putting more songs and bringing them in at the right places.

Your opinion and feedback means alot to me! No where in hell do I feel in anyway your an asshole. I been DJing for a year now. Only way to get better is from people like yourself to help me out.

On the check yo self track...yup I did fuk up on that one! For some reason it was on point during the mix but on the outro of the track the snares drifted off beat. I backspined out of it to try and hide it...will work on that more. Thats just beatmatching practicing nothing big.

I love to juggle and want to do it more but to be honest...im kinda scared and clueless on how to do it. So rather try and do something and mess up a good mix I try not to do it. Also one key thing I need to know when juggling is knowing my music. When something hot comes in or a phrase comes in that I want to loop is all done by knowing my music. I will work on that some more. Really What I want to do is simple juggling like taking a snare and make it hit twice rather than once.

For the legth of track issues...well how can I make them shorter? I dont want to slam tracks over all the time and dont want vocals to clash. I think making my mixes long like that makes them smooth...but Im open to hear what kind of styles I can integrate into my mixes to go in and out of tracks like you have said. I agree...I get bored too listen to the entire track. But I dont know how to scratch good so cant do cuts, and juggling aint my thing yet.

Again..thank you very much for taking the time to hear me out bro! I will be posting up more mixes on here hoping you guys can keep an eye out for me cause DJ V is on a come up...lol!!

My man DJ Gaffle!! HAHA!!

Thanks for hearing me bro! For the sound quality you got to get up on a record pool bro that offers MP3's as well. That and get a TTM57 man...sound quality when recording out is amazing on my mixer man.

About the song selection....I hear ya on trying to keep a theme going with my mix. But I like hearing a lot of music and love it all so I enjoy mixing diffrent types of music. That and the listeners to me like to hear variety. Jo shmo may like nas but his friend may want some dr dre. I try to click with everyone by doing this. Just my opinion on this matter....but maybe im wrong.

Like I said on the post above Gaffle...what would you reccomend I do to make my transitions from one song to another smooth and short? I tried to cut songs short at the club I work at but peeps get pissed when their song doesnt finish all the way. I hate slamming man...it doesnt feel right to me. Biggest thing a fellow pro DJ taught me is never clash vocals. So phrasing the tracks right to not allow this to happen is a key thing to do. Only way I see to make this smooth is to wait on the last 8 bar chorus and drop a song so the intro rides with the outro chorus and as soon as the vocals of the new song start the other cuts off. Make sense? Probably not...lol. In short im phrasing the tracks so the outro goes out and the intro of the cued up track start without any clashing of vocals and shit.

Thanks for the feedback man! I will be posting more music on here for you or anyone else to hear me. Im also waiting to hear your next mix as well man. Keep me up to date on how that goes.

Well, this is a mix cd; the club is a lil' different. At the club, people are drunk. Hopefully, people aren't drunk riding around to your mix cd in their cars.

Try playing a song you like such as California love. Let Dre's 1st verse play (on turntable-A). In the meantime, load the same track on (turntable-B) but queue up the last 'California' chorus. As Dre's 1st verse ends on (turntable-A), sneak into (turntable-B's) last 'California' chorus. The listener won't notice the difference. You know the outro of the song is coming up so you can then load your next song on (turntable-A) and bring it in accordingly. You just cut the song by about 2 minutes (by leaving the Tupac verse out) and still played a classic hit.

When you get better at synching chorus' with intros of other songs, you should experiement with looping in [relative] mode. It is a great mixing asset. I did a lot of it on my latest 'Hip-Hoppers Rejoice' mix. If a chorus wasn't sufficient for me, I'd catch a bar(s) and pre-loop it. That loop is your friend as it can be play infinitely and provides an easy transition into the next song (Check out the 'Looking at Front Door -> Outta Here mix; Oh My God -> Shook one's mix; Closer -> Krs One Attacks mix; Area -> I JustWannaChill mix or Ease Back -> Jingling baby mix. I always have to pre-practice and pre-mark my looping scenarios to make sure the loops are not too offbeat.

Also, try a little bit of double-up on some of the snares. I don't know how to describe this except a drum snare or kick is like a half-bar behind the other TT. Use the crossfader to go back-and-forth. Don't overdo this and carry it on throughout an entire song. Do a slight bit at the beggining of a song to add effect and go on to your next song. Looking forward to your next mix.

yeah mayne. I have been spinning for a little over a year as well. One thing I think I have gotten good at is timing. Most of the time I can put tracks together that will perfectly fit.

One thing I have noticed is you didnt hit the first bar when cuing in your next track in all the mixes. From what I think I know, the way most hip hop works is as long as you hit the first bar of the chorus with the song your cuing most of the time the timing will be right on, with the track playing in congruency with the track thats being cued.

One thing I did just to get the basics of timing is cue in a funkymix or something. Those are all 32 bar intros and most hip hop choruses are 32 bars so as soon as the chorus is over, the funkymix will line up perfectly as timing goes and you can just brake or backspin out of the track and it will be perfect, timing wise. After I got good with cuing in funky mixes I just started using original tracks that I know would either come in at the 16th bar or the 32nd bar and echo out or do whatever.
Like I said I am going to post a mix soon just to get feedback cuz I think most of my mixes sound fairly good, but I am sure everyone feels that way when they make one.

I use alot of instrumentals tho. I normally always cue in an instrumental over the track currently playing, then cue in the original song over the instrumental. Thats a good way to learn how to listen and hit the bars at the proper times. When I first started DJing last year I had no concept of bars but now I am fairly proficient on making sure I hit them correctly.

as far as track length, I normally never let a song play past the 2nd chorus and sometimes for me thats pushing it. Hip Hop to me is very easy concept. I think its funny when people who spin house and drum and bass or whatever say hip hop is hard to spin. I guess its just cuz I grew up only listening to it and I understand the general concept of it and how tracks are put together.
With hip hop, like gaffle said its ALL ABOUT TIMING, if you can master timing the rest is easy to me at least. With house you can overlap shit and it doesnt sound half bad, but if you are mixing two hip hop songs with words on both tracks and have them overlap eachother, it sounds just like str8 hella trash.

i kinda am rambling and dont even know if i am making sense but you inspired me to post a mix and I will be doing that within a week or so, so thanks homey. keep it up!!

sorry i think the 32 bar thing is incorrect, shows what I know haahha

I haven't listened to this yet but in regard to how to make the songs shorter without slamming it, that could be a practice issue. I'm not sure how long it takes you to beatmatch, but as you gain more experience you will be able to do this skill quicker and hence be able to change the songs faster without necessarily having to slam them.

track list thanks :)

get an efx processor if you got the money...

Thanks everyone for the help again! Yo gaffle...im going to try this method right now along with doubling up the snares bro. Dre day has a solid beat to do that. Mix to follow here soon...

Ok I got another practice session made of me trying the method you told me Gaffle and also did some beat juggling on the last track. I warn you now...I dont think it sounds good. I tried to make double snares in the last track and did some juggling which is off beat. But beign new...im gonna post this up for everyone to hear and maybe guide me in the right direction. Here is the link....

www.megaupload.com

I will check it out when I get to the crib.

its only 6 minutes...

are you using cue points? it sounds like it on some of it.

Gaff good advice... i was bumpin' your mix in the car today too :)

i do the same thing sometimes, i loop in relative but some songs dont have any good looping points so an instrumental is better but then again some tracks might not offer an instrumental version. I usually just basckspin or slam in that case or if it a a quick overlap for 1 or 2 bars.

The best advice is to listen to other mixtapes. Dont copy what theyre doing, but get ideas on what you like and what would fit your style. You cant play ball if you've never seen the game.

Yes I have been. What I did was set one cue point to the first vocal start with 2pac and another with the outro chorus that way when 2pac was done it went right to the ending of the song. I would then mix it up really quick with another track.

I know its only 6 min long. I wanted to try this method before I got realy crazy with an hour session. Just looking for gaffle or someone to tell me if I got the right idea.

I have been listening to alot of mixtapes. I heard DJ Gaffles mixtape and thought it was really fresh. I picked things out of his mix and asked him how he did it or what he did. Its normal technigues like juggling, cutting, or whatever.