How to do a genre flip
Announce the change, kill A, and slam into a new genre.
- Crowd-pleaser
- easy
- About 4 bars
When to use it
- Use it when the next song brings more energy, when both songs sit at a similar energy and when you're bringing the energy down.
- A natural fit for pop/open-format.
- A strong choice when you're switching genres.
- Works at any tempo gap, and it's the go-to move when the songs are more than 8% apart, because there's no beatmatched overlap.
Step by step
- 1Tease the change: filter A up as it builds.
- 2Kill A on the last beat of the phrase.
- 3Slam into B's drop in the new genre.
See it on a controller, and hear it with your own songs
Cueball picks the right technique for every pair of songs in your set and animates the knobs and faders in time with the music.
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Similar techniques
- Hard cut on the phraseSnap from A to B exactly on a new phrase.
- Short blend on the downbeatA quick overlap so the keys never get time to clash.
- Quick cutStop A, start B. Bold and clean.
- Echo outLet A ring out on an echo, then drop B.
- Tempo ramp, then blendGlide the tempo over, then do a short blend.
- SpinbackRewind A like a vinyl spin, then slam B in.