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I am unsure where to post this, and you all have been great in answering my questions. This question is more of a dj type question. So I am going to run a show at a christmas party, and the people running the party want me to run an intro into a song, and then they would sing it. Anyways, if I put on an intro then stop it to go into the song it would sound dumb I think. So I was thinking of taking an mp3 and adding an intro to it. The song is AC/DC You shook me all night long. They need like a 30 second intro, and I was thinking of Thunderstrucks guitar solo looped for about 30 seconds. Is it possible to add 30 seconds to the beginning of a song so that it segways right into the song instead of stopping? Or maybe someone has another suggestion for segwaying into the song? Thanks.

You can use a program such as Acid or some other multi track type program.  Record the intro part, however you want it & put it into a wave then add to a track of the program - you should be able to paste as many sections as you need, piecing them together to make it sound like it is supposed to be repreating, then on another track, add the song at the end of the intro loop - trying to match the beat as much as possible - you'll need to use the programs volume control to drop the volume right at the end - not a direct cut-off but a gradual fade - although quick one, while the next song starts - this may need an equal fade up for a brief period to make it sound more fluent.  Then when done, save it as a wav & burn to disc.

Using the Acid program, I used to make my own mixes (not that it hasn't been done before).  I used Rick James Superfreak & MC Hammer You Cant TOuch This and pieced them together toggling between each song & blending them together at the end - had to do a little beat matching & pitch correction, but the program allows for that as well, sounded pretty cool, lost the master copy I had though in a computer crash - I should try to recreate it, it did sound prety cool.  Also did this for Green Day Boulevard Of Broken Dreams & Oasis Wonderwall.  Blended WOnderwall into BOBD.  I had a version out on the download sites, but don't know if ever used it.

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NOt sure I understand but if you have a dual player - you can just  cross fade from one song to another ?

OK to loop the music, downlaod AUDACITY (free ware) or if you have an audi editing program, just use that.

Snip out the art of THUNDER STRUCK solo you need, and then loop it on your audio program.

Now import the song they wann sing in, and have it start at the 30 second mark. and fade out the gituar loop at that time.

What song where you putting after Thunderstruk?

I am going to try to loop thunderstruck to you shook me all night.

Play the two songs on two separate channels, beat match the tempos, then fade one into the other. 95% of listeners probably don't even care about the beat match, and you could just fade one song into the other at an appropriate point.

Of course, people ask me all the time to play the first 20-30 seconds of a song so they can hear it before they have to sing it, and I just tell them no. That just means that they are nervous and they think that they don't know the song and need to be reminded of it before they sing, but if they are that scared and truely don't know the song, then they are going to suck at it no matter what, and likewise if they do know the song, then they are going to pick it up and don't need the intro. Basically the intro doesn't help either way.

You Shook Me has about a 20 second intro to it anyway, and EVERYONE knows that song PLUS the friggin words are on the screen. It's not like they are inventing the karaoke wheel here.

I know you agreed to play this silly little intro for them, so you may have to go through with it this time, but next time I wouldn't let them hold you to that. You realize that it is going to sound stupid, but they don't. However, once you actually play it for them, everyone in the crowd is going to think it sounds stupid, even the ones who requested it. You gotta control that kinda situation, and not always give the patron what they want when they don't exactly know what they want AND it is going to negatively impact your show.

I'm always nice about it and just say something like "you know you know this song, EVERYBODY knows this song and they'll sing along with you. Plus the words will be right there on the screen...if you don't pick it up right away, I'll help you out. Now get up there and rock it!!"

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I think I may be lost when you say to play the songs on 2 separate channels? Could you explain this just a tad more.  Thank you very much.

You'll have your karaoke player plugged into one channel (possibly a stereo channel, which is technically two). Basically, it is assigned to one of your volume sliders.

Hook up your other music source for the filler music (CD player, MP3 player, DVD player, etc.) to another channel (i.e. another set of inputs assigned to another volume slider).

You can now fade them in and out separately the old fashioned way, just using the volume sliders.

When I first started out, I burned an MP3 disc of about 100 good, upbeat songs and played them on a DVD player. I just put them on random and let them roll. When one karoake song was over, I faded out the karaoke and faded in the filler. This is how most people do it.

Now, I have all of my filler on an MP3 player and I actually DJ by reading the crowd and selecting which song to play next. I select the song while the singer is finishing their karaoke song, put it on pause, then unpause and quickly fade it in while I fade the karaoke song out at the end.

Either way, I think that may be what you are asking for, just a way to do some filler dance sets for your party patrons.

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C Mc
KJ, FL