I can beat match, mix, blend songs pretty good….as long as the bpms are matched up. I've always had a hard time transitioning between songs with vastly different bpms, like going from a EDM style dance song that are usually in the 125-130 bpm range, to a much slower paced song, such as a hip-hop track which can vary from 65 bpm to 100 bpm. The much slower hip-hop tracks I can work with. If the bpm of a hip hop track is around 65 bpm, I can beat match it with a 130 bpm song and it usually sounds pretty good. But the majority of hip hop songs can't be mixed like that and I have a hell of a time transitioning from the faster bpm to the slower bpms or vice versa. When I practice, I'll usually have a hell of a time mixing until I start trying to transition from EDM to hip-hop or hip-hop to EDM. I always get discouraged and give up.
Do I just suck? Why am I having such a hard time with this? Anybody have any advice/pointers for me to improve on this? Usually people just tell me to mix the breaks in the songs or the build up of one song leading into another song etc, but not all songs have these breaks, build ups or build downs.
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