Hey guys and dolls!

So for the newbies out there, like moi, I have a few questions I want to clairfy. My mixes are sounding rather poor if I'm honest, I give up after beatmatching 5 songs together. I usually just do outro into the intro of a another song. So I've been watching many videos online to improve my mixing and I'm kinda stuck, my mixes are boring and bland.

So let me get things striaght, 4 beats in a bar, correct? how many bars are in a phrase? Also, how do u know its a new phrase?

one other question, what if a song doesn't start with a beat? say it starts with a hit-hat or a clap like swedish house mafia-one? what to do then?

Also, do u guys have any tips/tricks to make my mixes sound interesting? I tried doing the drop but boy did it sound terrible!

thanks

K