Originally Posted by
mitchiemasha
Practice cueing, rubbing the 1st beat of 1 track over the beat of the other. Once you can do that perfectly, try releasing it so that the first beat is in time. Don't worry if it isn't. Do this over and over again. Only when you can perfect this move on to the pitch. Stick with songs very similar BPM.
Being able to cue perfectly takes a huge load of from the learning curve of adjusting the pitch. The problem with an unperfect cue is you first have to correct your cue, then the mismatched BPM. All you'll hear is noise, you won't be able to distinguish the 2, yet. If the first few beats are intime, a perfect cue, you can ride this with bending the vinyl, nudging tapping, and the pitch fader. You should always be incontrol of where the track is at, right from where you start it.
If the first few beats are in, a perfect cue and it starts to drift, go out of time, if you push the record and it goes more out of time, STOP, start again. Recue but this time tap.
Once you're getting this right, you don't need to recue and everything falls into place. You subconsciously learn the change, wur, in pitch to if you've over/under tapped or over/under pushed, this is when you become a master, you'll know before hearing the next beat. Once you're performing, waiting to hear if the next beat is a bit out is already too late.
Edit: obviously when you go live... you don't want people to be hearing you bend the tune, especially songs that have pads in.
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