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Three minutes of deck skills, no commentary
On YouTube this video is called Scratchalizzm 3 Min Deck Skilzz
What this lesson teaches
The shortest item in the curriculum, and it is not a tutorial at all.
What it is
A challenge. Three minutes to show your turntablism skills, on whatever decks you have, posted as a video response to his.
He features DJ Cuber and invites everybody else.
Why it is here
Two reasons.
It is the practice instruction with a deadline attached. Everything in this course says practise, and nothing concentrates practice like knowing it will be recorded. Three minutes is long enough to need preparation and short enough to be attemptable.
If you are learning to scratch, filming three minutes of it is the most useful thing you can do - partly for the discipline, mostly because watching yourself back shows you things you cannot feel while playing.
It shows what the channel was. Video responses are long gone from YouTube, and this is a trace of what the platform looked like when these were made: a tutorial was an invitation rather than a broadcast, and the comments and responses were half the content.
A fair amount of the material in this curriculum exists because somebody emailed a question or posted a response. That is a different model from a tutorial channel built to a plan, and it is why the coverage is so uneven and so specific - it follows what people actually asked.
Contents of the video
Alright folks, that guy there is DJ Cuber. On your decks. It doesn't matter. We want to see you turntablism styling. Three minutes all about seeing your skills. Post your video as a video response underneath this one. Follow all links and relevant information to the site of this video in the description. Remember, three minutes to show your skills on your DJ turntables. Practice and enjoy. Nice one.
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