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

0:00 Yes, it is the original

Right guys, we've got the PLX-1000 from Pioneer DJ and I have on the deck Tony Lee Reach Up. Yes, it is the original. I'm not going to be playing all of the track because, of course, copyright issues. A bit of a funky drummer loop on the Bluetooth speaker. And we're going to do a bit of this, all the baby scratch. So put the needle on the record. There it is. Now again, a lot of DJs, what they'll tend to do is, depending on where the sample starts, they'll make a note of the centre of the record and, of course, you use that reference to come back to. If you're using a white label, then, of course, you will put some form of mark on the centre of the record. Alternatively, sometimes you do see DJs putting...

Stickers on the vinyl, but to be quite honest, you're better off just putting a mark if it is a white label or looking at the point position of the sticker on the centre of the record and how the label is compared to, in relation, let's say, to the needle. So I can see I've got a nice line there that I'm going to use as reference. So let's just do a baby scratch.

1:30 Is one, two, three, four

Okay, so all I was doing there... is one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Okay, I'm just going to make sure my loop lasts a little bit longer. Alright, what we can do now is we can double that. So let's just get that a little bit faster. In fact, twice as fast. Here we go. There you go. Twice as fast. Now we can alternate. So it looks simple. It is simple. But we can make this sing now. We can actually make that sound sing just by the frequency of our moves. On the deck. I'll demonstrate. There you go. A little bit of a flip there towards the end. Now, at the moment, I'm just using the deck. What we can do... let me just make sure my loop won't stop. I'm going to go back... is we're now going to use the up fader.

Okay, so we've got four moves now. Now, at the moment what you did here was the forward and back sound. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to make it so you can only hear the forward sound demonstration first then the explanation. Here we go. Bit of a mess up there. Okay, so what was I doing? Let me show you. Four moves. So fader up, record forward, fader down, record back. Up, forward, down, back. Okay, now what I was doing there was actually holding the record as well. So you can of course hold the record to get a sound and depending on how slow or fast you move the record, it will of course depend on the sound you get. Alternatively, you can just let the record move in its normal position or its normal way by the speed it is on the deck to get the original sound off the track or the sample that you're playing.

4:57 Let's just pause that for a second

I can demonstrate that. Now, I'm going to move the record. Sounds like this. Now let's do... let's alternate. Oops, jumped. There you go. Okay, let's just pause that for a second. Now what we can do... is when we want to start to elaborate a little bit. Now again, I am by far a good turntablist, believe me. So anyone out there who's saying, what is this guy doing? This is whack. This is a demonstration. This is a tutorial for beginners. So you know, all you hardcore professional turntablists, much love. So what we can do now is... and what a lot of turntablists do is they will listen to the beat and it's almost like they're making the track scat with the beat. If you're not familiar with scatting, you know...

That kind of thing. So what you're trying to do is you're trying to scat the record, make the record talk. So we can do something like this. Here we go. Let me start again, sorry. All right, not brilliant but sort of. Okay, okay, jumped there a little bit. All right, I'm going to leave it like that. Okay, so what I'm going to try and do is a few more of these. By the way, big ups to DJ Qbert. Go check him out. And also a really good friend of mine, DJ Angelo. Google DJ Angelo on YouTube and that guy has done an immense selection of fantastic turntablist videos. I highly recommend you watch his tutorials. There'll be more for me to follow, practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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