The million dollar question! How much time should I spend on Beatmatching.

This can be a very difficult question to answer as everyone has different learning capabilities, there is no quick fix and there is no secret system.

Learning how to beatmatch is about trying to re-pattern your brain so that you can separate sounds in a way the you are not used to – doing this takes repetition and practice, lots of it!

How much time should I spend on beatmatching – I am going to answer this in two ways, I’m going to give you a short version and then I’m going to give you a long version. Let’s start with the short version:

Good DJs practice until they get it right

Incredible DJs practice until they can’t get it wrong.

The long Version!

You need to keep practicing until you know that even under extreme pressure situations you will be able to match the beats of your most difficult tracks.

The better and quicker that you can beatmatch your tracks the more time and options you give yourself moving forward in the mix. It allows you the time you need to be creative so that you can take your mixing to another level.

You want your beatmatching to become like second nature, something you don’t have to think too much about, you want it to feel like it just happens, opposed to having to grind out a mix to make it happen.

How do I know you ask? If you hear your mix is slipping one way or another you want to be able to pull it back into line as a reaction without a thought.

In a nutshell the better you get at beatmatching and the less time and thought you have to put into it, the more time and thought you can allocate to creating incredible mixes.

Once you have mastered beatmatching, doesn’t stop there, you still have a way to go until you have complete creative control over the music you are mixing.

You need to understand the importance of matching not only the beats but the bars, phrases and harmonics. – At which point you will officially have complete creative control over the music you are mixing, one of the best feelings in the world!

So if you want to know how much time you should spend on beatmatching, I’d like to ask you, how incredible do you want to be?

Put simply the better you get at beatmatching the more time you have to become incredible, extraordinary even!

One last tip: The harder you practice, the better you will get. The more you practice the faster you will get there.

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