Basic Beginner Scratching on Vinyl DJ Lesson for the New Turntabalist PT2 BY Ellaskins the DJ Tutor

0:00 It's Danny, D-A-N-I, small, capital B 5000

Right guys, another very simple demonstration tutorial for the complete and utter beginner on the Baby Scratch. There are so many variations to this. Big shout out by the way to DannyB5000 for the Funky Drum Loop Practice Tool. That's what it is. So it's Danny, D-A-N-I, small, capital B 5000. Okay? Go and check that out. Great. And again, I'm pretty sure you can't get any copyright issues because it's just a drum beat. That's all. It's a drum loop. Tune I'm using, Tony Lee Reacher. Of course you're not going to hear the tune. I'm just using it for scratching purposes. I now have the deck in the battle position. The reason for this is now I have all this area in front of me free of the needle, the styli, so I'm

1:14 One, two, three, four

Less likely to knock the needle with my hand. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. You see we're going there from the baby scratch into almost like a stab. Now also, we can use the side of the record. So if I hold the side of the record, top of the record. Now you may find as well that your hand, if it's very dry, it could slip on the piece of vinyl. So some DJs tend to use some form of hand cream. Ideally though really just give your fingers a lick and away you go. On the offbeat

And the onbeat. Here we go again. Three, four. There so what I'm doing there is I'm trying to almost make the sound scat. You see inside that beat if we listen to that funky beat. You see. What we've got in any form of beat is we have gaps. And those gaps aren't just a gap and that's it, nothing happens. If we let's say we elongated a bar. One, two, three, and four. You haven't just got the one, the two, the three, and the four. You've got the one, ch and ch, two, ch and ch, three, ch and ch, four, ch and ch. But then you've also got the one, ch and, sorry, one, two, ach, two, ch, ach, three, ch, ach, four, ch, ach, one, ch, ach. Maybe I did that right or wrong. But you've got segments inside those. So what

4:14 We can do that without even using the up fader

You could do is you could in between number one and two, you can have 32 or 64 segments, equal segments inside just from beat one to beat two. So when you hear scratch turntablists, you're not just doing, eh, eh, eh, eh, one, two, three, four. They're like, one, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. So we can do that without even using, oh, put it forward, or sorry, right speed. We can do that without even using the up fader. So let's go back to our funky beat. Bit of a stab there as well.

We're going to practice just with a sound and moving it backwards and forwards. So at the moment as well, I have got the low, mid and high set to 12 o'clock. Now that's fine if you're practicing but if you are going to be scratching over a beat, to get rid of a little bit of the rumble, it's always a good idea to turn the low down very slightly. Mid up a little bit more. There you go. It also sounds a lot cleaner. When you do take away a bit of the bass. Once again, big shout out to DannyB5000. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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