stick with a round # like 80 or 90

I like to keep them all one number so I don't have to move my pitch control

The best stuff is at 140bpm.

Does anybody just feel music anymore?

*Doesn't

You should sort your crates by BPM. It flows gooder.

man you're crazy. 70 is better

bpm should come second. first you need to organize by key. tap the keys on your piano until you find the one that matches the song you are keying and continue on with the next and so on and on...then do bpm...

I like to spin my sets in alphabetical order via the artist. That way at the end of the night I know I played everything from Adele to ZZ Top.

That's what I used to do. Now I play by track name. I'll play a hip hop set and play 24's, into 30-something, into 99 problems, into A Bay Bay, A Milli, Act a Fool, Ain't No Fun, All About U, etc. The crowd loved the jagged programming and are always caught off guard. As a matter of fact, I haven't paid attention to BPMs in over 2 years. I mean who really cares besides DJ's if 2 songs match??? I don't even have my BPM column showing any more.

You realize changing the bpm field doesn't actually change the Nm of the track? Just checking cause that's sort of a n00bish statement you have right there...

What does BPM stand for?
On another note, the poor OP probably wishes this were left outside of the DJing discussion!

Viva la DJing discussion!

Well I'm not too familiar with bpm range settings in serato .I set my bpm Range at 58 - 115 , it set my songs from the range of 64 - 115 This is for my R & B Songs and idk if that's correct

I used to use a range then stopped because i was going the 78-155 and when i was scanning some tracks that were less seato doubles the bpm so i was getting like 150 bpm RNB and i should of been 75 what you find is if it doesnt fit in the range it will double or half the bpm to fit in the range you set so i leave mine with nothing now :-) and it seems to do the whole range fine :-)

thank you Dj matty k

No prob :-)

you realize there's an easy way to double of halve the bpms in serato?

Just select all the tunes that are doubled or halved, double click on the bpm, then hold Alt + the Up arrow key (to double) or the Down arrow key (to halve).

It will then mass double or halve whatever is selected.

Yep i knew thats had to do it to all the tracks that were doubles and halfs pain tbh so now i just leave it with no range and i get the bpm of all tracks and not doubled of halfed just to fit in a range i set :-)

I dont really see what the point of the range is really if you do you whole libary you are never going to have all your tracks in a selected range i have 60bpm to 170bpm tracks in mine :-)
And having it set to 78-155 is pointless

But if anyone can fill me in with some detail of the range bit the that would be good or have i hit the nail on the head if it does all ranges when you have it set to none :-)

crap really?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!

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lolz

you DJ so bad that...

you guys are hilarious

I don't use a range.
Unless you know all the songs you are scanning are within that range.

whoahhh, if u throw out the bpm column man and ur songs aren't even relatively close in bpm, how do you mix then man?? seriously tho, like beatmatchin, etc??

People still beatmatch? That's crazy! It's 2011 people. We're not on the Saturday mixshow on the local hip hop station. We're dropping heat after heat and getting people to scream "Yo!!! That's my shit!!!" Why are you concerned with BPMs? Just slam a hot song into another hot song. If the beats sound close, then try and mix 1 or 1/2 a bar and drop an airhorn. Man... you guys are just making this way too hard on yourselves.

wow i lost for words right now.

THIS!!! +100000000000000000

scratch scratch scratch, slam, scratch scratch scratch slam, etc.

Again lost for words. maybe spend some time actaully practicing. i no a strange concept. i spent 3 years in a basement just learning to beatmatch. a lost art of djing

I've heard djs' slam tracks in and the crowd loves it way more than mixing. I'm going to start doing that, plus you can jump around with songs easier. Go from 120 to 90 or even 140 to 70.

Exactly. Why waste time beatmatching when 99% of the people in the club don't care?


What? haha. I've been DJing since1983. I can beatmatch with my eyes closed. But as with anything that you practice at, I've made myself a more efficient machine. It's like sex with my girl. What I used to take hours doing, I can get done in 3 minutes or less. So why waste time beatmatching? They don't want to hear perfect 32 beat transitions in clubs. I can go through about 350-500 songs in a 2 hour set at the club. Efficiency! Maybe you should practice THAT!

See? Now THAT is a professional club DJ.

I don't know about slamming in songs with huge gaps like 120-90. But there are a couple of instances I like to do it. For example, drop rusko da cali anthem and at the right moment slam in california love and you're into a 90's to early 2000 hip hop set if you want.

akon hypnotize to biggie

hammer into dance (a.s.s.)

party rock anthem into no sleep (2 hot songs crowd doesn't care about lyrics matching)

I started the codes thing and now I started something new that will revolutionize DJ as we know it.

Ready?


I sort and play music by last names.

Genius... I'm gonna steal that idea. No need for me to be original when I can just bite someones style
#winning

I got you all beat hands down...I'm starting a new trend in my area where I mix two songs together because their names mashed together make a new better title....I call it "namemashups". For instance, I will mix "california gurlz" with "humpty dance" because california gurls humpty dance sounds good as a title. Or, I'll mix "the adventures of rain dance maggie" with "in da club" and get "the adventures of rain dance maggie in da club"...get it? Try it, people go nutz!!!

Ha Ha Ha

MIK.... I don't know what else to say

brilliant and if smashing songs takes practice then you might want to rethink your line of work.