Lesson 2 Turntabalist scratch move for the beginner

Alright folks, this is the second tutorial today in turntablism. If you're not familiar with turntablism, I have done a whole bunch of them last year. I suggest you look at those first, they're showing you the very basics. In this lesson, now I'm going to show you this move. Okay, it's roughly about six moves. The first move, and again you need to find the beginning for your scratch. Volume up. It's about there. First move is your volume up. Second move is almost like a stab. Now what you're doing is the turntable, depending on the actual speed of the scratch, or should I say the speed of the record. If the record's at 33 RPM, logically the turntable's going to be at 33. If the record's at 45, logically the turntable, the platter, is going to have to move at 45. But in this scratch, what's happening is we're actually moving the record a lot faster.

Then the turntable's moving it. Now, if you listen, this record normally moves at 33 RPM. But what I'm going to be doing is this. Moving it fast, keeping my finger on the record, but also leaving the platter move continually, not turning the platter off. So, first move is volume up, second move is record forward. Third move, volume down. Fourth move, record back. Fifth move, volume up. Sixth move is we take our finger off the record and we let the record go forward by itself, like so. I'll show you again. First move, volume up. Second move, stabbing motion, bringing the turntable, the scratch forward fast. Two. Three, volume down. Fourth move, record back. Fifth move, volume back up. Sixth move, take your finger off the record and let the record move by itself on the platter. I'll show it to you fast this time. Okay, another lesson for you. I hope I've been a help. Practice and enjoy.

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