Hi Steve ^^
I suggest using 2 tracks of similar tempo – then when you are trying to “beatmatch” dont worry about anything except the actual beats – forget bars/phrases for now.
Drop a beat on a beat and then wait and listen – this is where u decide if its faster or slower. (As mentioned previously this takes practice to hear straight away)
When you hear things going out of sync, instead of adjusting the pitch slider – nudge your track faster or slower manually with your hand or with the pitch adjust buttons, if it sounds better you are going the correct way, if it sounds worse is you are going the wrong way, then only adjust the pitch slider if you are actually correcting the tempo, by speeding or slowing the track overall with the pich fader.
With a little practice this will come naturally, deciding if the track is faster or slower 🙂
Once you get this correct – you can start focusing dropping a 1 beat on a 1 beat and then naturally progess to dropping the 1st beat of a phrase on a 1st beat of one of the playing tracks phases
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