How to Set Perfect Beatgrids for Difficult Tracks / Songs in Pioneer Rekordbox DJ

As a mobile DJ, it's important to let our software help us deliver a great performance. Having an accurate beat grid, or rhythm map, on your tracks is essential to help us in mixing, performing. effects, setting effective cue points, setting loops, and more.

Setting the perfect beat grid for your tracks can be super simple because most DJ software will do it for you automatically. However there are tracks that are difficult for software to analyze properly, and thus you have to manual adjust.

I'm not talking about live recordings or music produced more than a couple decades ago, which likely has slight variation in BPMs. Most DJ software can do an OK job with even these songs because of "dynamic analysis" mode. I'm referring to songs that are produced and have a consistent BPM but for some reason, throws the DJ software analyzer off.

I show 2 examples of this and how I go about "fixing" the beatgrid. Hope this helps you!

Content provided by Kevin Summers, owner and DJ at Smilestones DJ Services (http://www.smilestonesdj.com).