How to do a tempo ramp, then blend
Glide the tempo over, then do a short blend.
- Essential
- hard
- About 16 bars
When to use it
- Use it when both songs sit at a similar energy.
- A natural fit for house/techno, pop/open-format and Afrobeats/Latin.
- Made for tempos 3–8% apart: you glide the tempo across before blending.
- Both songs' melodies overlap, so it sounds best when their keys are compatible on the Camelot wheel.
Step by step
- 1Over A's last 16 bars, slide A's tempo fader toward B's BPM in small steps.
- 2Keep each step tiny so the crowd doesn't hear the pitch move.
- 3Once they match, start B on a phrase with its bass down.
- 4Swap the bass on the next downbeat and fade A out.
See it on a controller, and hear it with your own songs
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Similar techniques
- Long blend + bass swapRide both tracks together, then hand over the bass.
- Filter handoffWash A out with the filter while B comes in.
- 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.
- Vocal-over introStart B's vocal intro over A's fading instrumental.