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Performance Technique

5 courses · 36 lessons · 3 h 1 min

Cues, loops, effects, acapellas and scratching used as performance tools rather than party tricks.

Courses

  1. Learning to Scratch

    Intermediate 8 lessons · 37 min

    His beginner scratching lesson is the most watched video on the whole channel - over a million views - and it still starts in the right place: one hand, one sound, slowly. The…

  2. Cue Points and Hot Cues

    Intermediate 3 lessons · 16 min

    Hot cues turn a record into something you can play rather than only mix. Setting them in sensible places, and what the modern all-in-one players add on top - beat jump, slip loop…

  3. Loops

    Intermediate 7 lessons · 30 min

    A loop buys you time - to find the next record, to extend an intro that is too short, or to hold a breakdown until the floor is ready. Making one cleanly, without the glitch at…

  4. Effects, Used Sparingly

    Advanced 10 lessons · 59 min

    Effects are the easiest way to make a mix worse. Ellaskins is consistently conservative about them, and the most useful lesson in here is the one about getting an effect out of a…

  5. Acapellas and Tricks

    Advanced 8 lessons · 39 min

    Putting a vocal over someone else's instrumental is the oldest trick in the job and still the one that gets the biggest reaction. Plus a handful of set pieces - spin backs, a tune…

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