dj · the blend · lesson 5phrasing, count in eights
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Count the bars: one, two, three, all the way to eight, then back to one. Dance tracks change every 8, 16 or 32 bars: a new hat, the bass dropping out, a riser. Those blocks are phrases, and djs count them without thinking.

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