Beat juggling tutorial video 5, using the hand clap

0:00 A couple of people have said this isn't really beatjuggling

Alright folks, it's Jonathan here, aka The DJ Tutor, and this is the tutorial on beatjuggling, and this is video number 5, okay? If you haven't seen 1, 2, 3 and 4, go and check those out first. Now a couple of people have said this isn't really beatjuggling. Right, well, what can I say? It is. The reason being is simply this, okay? Quote me if you think I'm wrong, by all means. If I was to actually try and give you a tutorial in 10 minutes on the art of beat juggling, I would have to do it exceedingly fast and it would virtually be impossible to watch and you wouldn't know what the heck was going on. During the course of these tutorials, any monkey will be able to work out that if you put all of these tutorials together, add in your little innuendos and your little moves and you will end up becoming a beat juggler. There is far more to this than meets the eye.

And all being well, there will be far more videos as well. So eventually we may get to 10 and then all you've got to do is work out or put together all of the different facets, all of the lessons, and you will realise that you will be actually beat juggling. At the moment what we're doing is we're just taking it step by step. Like I said, a good turntablist can sit in front of some decks and do some massive moves. Within 30 seconds you're thinking, my God, how did they do that? But if they actually broke it down, which is what it's all about, which is what I'm trying to do, it would probably take them half a day to explain to you exactly what they've done. All the intricate moves involved. That's what I'm trying to do. Now then, in this one, what we're going to do, again we're using the same record, Robbie Riviera. If we use the same records it makes it slightly easier.

The track is entitled, sorry where are we now? See, not even I can remember. It's the ultimate disco groove, okay, but check it out, I'll write it down I'm sure. Now then, so far what we've been doing is we've been manipulating the record on the actual beat. In other words, the beat goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. Now then, a house beat, okay. If you listen to house music, house is a basic steady 4-4 beat. Boom, boom, boom, boom, like so. Hip-hop is more like boom, okay? But even house music, even though it's a steady beat, in between one and then the other, you've got a bit of a gap. But let's say you class the first bass beat as the bass kick, boom, as in the bass drum, boom. But then the next one, you can automatically class that as the hand clap. I know it sounds a bit bizarre because...

2:49 With regards to house music, everything is boom, boom, boom

With regards to house music, everything is boom, boom, boom. It's all a bass beat. If we chuck this on, I shall explain. You can hear that. But take a close listen. There's also, inside that beat, there's a hand clap. Now so far, all we've been doing with the beat juggling is concentrating or manipulating, moving the record with the actual bass beat. Boom. Say for example, if we start the record off and we have... Boom, one, one, two, three, four. What I would do is I'd move the record on one, which is the bass beat, one, and then two is almost like the hand clap, but I'd leave that be. But then I'd go back to the bass beat again on say number three, boom, and I'd move that. Now, what we're going to do now is I'm going to show you how you can manipulate the actual hand clap.

4:55 Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor

Now then, what you have to take into consideration here is we're breaking it up one small facet again. Now then, by utilising the hand clap with scratching, this is where you've got to be a bit more careful and remember to count because if you bring it in at the wrong place, it will sound a bit dodgy. It will sound as though it's off half a beat. But in essence, what's happening is if you throw it in on the hand clap on the other record when the other record is playing the beat... Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor. Now this time I'm just going to be actually cutting and scratching the record on the bass beat, the boom, boom. And then what I'll do, I'll bring it back and I'll just do it on the hand clap beat. Let's see the difference. Now we're going to just do the hand clap. Okay, now then, again, the most important thing here, the most, most important thing is your actual timing. Now then, remember bars, remember counting, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4.

It is vitally important that if you do something like this, you've got to count your bars, because if you don't count bars, what's basically going to happen is you're going to be doing this over another record. Ideally, okay, you can do this just by itself, okay, but if you're going to be cutting and scratching over another record, if you can't count the bars and you don't know where you are, then basically as soon as you start bringing this one back in and stop... Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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