J-Me Griffiths Demonstrates the Crab & Flare scratch

Yeah, alright. Now, I'll be honest with you guys, I'm pretty shit at doing crab and all that sort of stuff. I know theoretically how to explain how to do it, but me personally can't do it. So, Jay, go for it. Okay, as I was saying to John, it can be easier sometimes to learn the crab technique with the crossfader in reverse mode. Mainly because you've got something to feel that you're tapping every time you generate a click-type sound, like, you know... I found that, I mean, I like to swap back and forth, but I find from learning and more precision to reverse it in crossfader mode to begin with, and as you get better you can jump from normal reverse mode.

The positioning, this is kind of like, I'll try and break it down as easy as I can without getting too technical, but when I'm actually using it in reverse mode, now the crossfader is to the left, If you try too hard, I would be literally pushing the fader with my fingers, all of them or a couple of them. This kind of thing. I don't know if you've experienced that or not. And in the end, all you hear is this. Yeah? The secret is to actually just loosen up, relax, alright? A good technique to actually learn, if you want to just see my fingers here like this, is to, you know when you click your finger normally, that sort of thing.

But when you're learning to do crab, There's a balance where you're not pushing your thumb too hard, you're not pushing your fingers too hard, where it's working out that balance from each side of it. So if we apply that back down onto the fader now, and even if you find the coordination to start to begin all this sort of stuff, if you want to just let it play on its own accord, and just bring it back, so it's like just letting it go, bringing it back to the start, the cue marker point again.

But it is, it's practice isn't it? It's practice and practice. Practice and being confident and working out the pressure that you apply with it and eventually you should be able to do one, two, three, four. Excellent. Alright, Jay, another video, practice and enjoy. Easy. Practice and enjoy.

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