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What’s Beat-matching?

It is an art of mixing two musical compositions together easily by speeding up or slowing down one of the songs to align their rhythms.

A good DJ knows how to beat-match, and I am going to share with you seven steps to getting started.

Step 1: You need to have a way to hear one track in the headphones while another track is playing on the primary sound system.

Step 2: Play a track through the sound system.

Step 3: Find another track in your headphones you need to beat-match with the one playing. (This is done on a DJ mixer by turning on the Cue for the track you need to hear.)

Step 4: Find the first beat of the track you’re going to mix in, and hold it right there. If you are using turntables you can just grab on to the head of the record to basically pause the track where the beat starts.

Step 5: Hear the beat playing through the main speakers. Wait for it to get to the first beat of a cycle. (Music in 4 / 4 timing typically is all built around cycles of 4 and 8 counts. Ie. 4 beats in a bar, and 4 bars segments which lead to builds and changes in the music. ) When you feel the music hit on the first beat with a crash or whatever, that is right when you need to play the beat you are mixing in.

Step 6: Right after releasing your hold on the record, you have to listen closely in your headphones with one ear to detect whether the beat you are mixing in is going slower or quicker than the one already playing. If it’s actually going slower then adjust the pitch slider, and perhaps even give it a little push to help it catch up to record A quicker. If it’s going faster than record A then turn down the pitch slider on the turntable accordingly to make it a same speed. You’ll even need to touch the side of the turntable plate to slow it down quicker.

Step 7: When you have the beats aligned completely (or close to anyway), move the cross fader on the DJ mixer to the center with the bass cut on the beat you are mixing in. Then when it seems like the right time switch the basses either slowly or fast and the switch over to the following track on the first beat of first cycle.

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