RECORD YOUR PRACTICE MIXES, AND LISTEN TO THEM!

Put in on loud at the stereo and try to listen for this:
- Does it mix smoothly? song1 and 2 follow the same pattern, or is there a kinda 2-step there, making the dancefloor look at you and wonder... lol
- Does it have a phase or flanger in the mix part? (remove MORE frequencies with eq to remove)
- Does the bass drums or high hats "kill" eachother? Or even phase to? You need to work more with those EQ's
- Does the mix also give some "breakdown" or did you kill them all, by mixing bassdrums from song2 to early? Remember.. you need those 4 or 8 beats of music being less intence every now and then in the mix (just like a song need it) do make dancefloor have that little break and antisipation for whats next

RECORD - AND LISTEN! this is your BEST tool

TIP:

Start practice with HOUSE, TRANCE or TECHNO music...
This music is easy to mix and beatmix (no offfence guys..lol)...

When you are real comfortable with that, try moving over to 80's pop (not that hard).. when you manage that move on to
modern pop, rnb and hiphop (harder)...

There are not many dj's that beatmix for example hiphop very good, so dont worry if u cant "make it" all the way there...
Because if you can beatmix a bit, you can do this for songs that u manage, and use other mixing tecniques like break stop, echo out etc where you know you can not beatmix. You dont have to beatmix everywhere to be a pub/club dj, but a bigger clubs and festivals, beatmixing is essential, but then again, they play house-music, and thats ... eh... easy.. sorry.. lol


And regarding my long post on how music is buildt, the reson for it was for you to have that "in the back of your head" when mixing, so that you mix right... on timing, and structure... mixing a chorus on song1 into chorus of song2 is going to sound crap! So, if u manage to "understand" music more, you will hear, and know when to "release" song nr2, and fade out song nr1, on the right spot, and in the structure of the mix...