How To Mix: The Loop Function on a CDJ-800 Part 1

Okay folks, so now we're going to figure out what is loop, and what it means to a DJ

All right folks, it is Jonathan here. This is video number one in the selection I am doing on the loop function of this guy here, CDJ turntable. Now, then before we even touch the actual turntable, what is loop, what does it mean, what does it do? Basically this, if you have a listen to any kind of dance music, you will of course have a beat. If you listen to that beat and count, you will have timing and so for example, house music. You have got, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. If you cannot, you can actually could like so. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight. In hiphop, dug, chi, dudugdug, chi, you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight. Funk, bam, bam, babam bam, dang, you do one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight. Let us say we take that count of eight and we class this as a count of eight. Piece of paper. What I am going to do, I am going to form a loop. I will attach the end to the beginning so now, what we have got is we have got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight. It is just an ongoing saga. It continually goes from one to eight like so. Let us say, we want to halve that so we have got to count to four. So basically what we do, we do one, two, three, four but what we do is we loop it. So now we have got one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four like so. Now, let us say for example, we halve that so we have got to count to two. So again it is half of four. We get our piece of paper and now we have got two. One, two, one, two. Yes, you guessed it, a count of one but we are going to loop that like so. So basically, what is happening here, is you have just got one beat but it is starting like this. One, one, one, one, that is all it is doing like so. If we actually put those next to each other, bearing in mind this is not to scale. If I could just put that in there and that in there and that in there like that, in essence what we have got there is we have got something let us say from the scale of one to eight, we have go this which is eight. We have got this guy here which is four, we have got the next one which is two and the next one which is one. What happens with the CDJ turntable, it will sample some music. It will sample a segment of music. It will sample a eight beats and it will have the eight beats running from one to eight but then it will just go straight back to number one and then continue again. Straight back to number one and continue again, likewise with four from one to four. Straight back to one, start again. Straight back to one, start again. With two, one two, as soon as it gets to two, back to one. One two, back to one. One, two and one. It will just go, one, one, one. Like is said, I am not even going to touch it yet. This is the first lesson in basically the loop function of a CDJ turntable. This is what is all about. I hope it has been a help. Practice and enjoy.