Dj help,The art of cutting for the dj, dee jay; djtutor.com

0:00 It's something called cutting

I think this is part five ladies and gentlemen in cutting, mixing and scratching for the turntablist. In this lesson we're going to be doing something, by the way if I sound funny it's because I'm crouching down. It's something called cutting. What is cutting? Basically it's the terminology for the use of two records. You're cutting The one that isn't playing into the one that is. In other words, you have a record that's playing continually and you're sampling bits of a second record into the one that's actually playing. The two records you're going to be listening to is Rex and Effect Rump Shaker. The one I'm going to be cutting into is Busta Rhymes, Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See. Okay, all I'm going to be doing, I've got the two sliders up here, the same level, and I'm going to be using the crossfade. As I cut sample this part of the record, I take the crossfade from the one that's playing over, let this one play. As soon as I've used the sample, the tiny bit I want, I take the crossfade straight back over again.

1:05 This one plays, bring the crossfade back and pull this one back, okay?

I bring this one back and then as soon as I'm ready again, I put the crossfade over. This one plays, bring the crossfade back and pull this one back, okay? I will do this quite fast. I'll be using little bits of the beginning, quite a lot of the beginning, and eventually I'll put the crossfade dead center and I'll mix it in. Let's see what it sounds like. Sorry, put the microphone on. There you go with the spin back. So all I was doing, I was playing the one song. I was cutting this one in, cut, cut, wiki wiki, bit of a scratch as well. And then this one's playing and there's no reason why then I can't get a third song and do exactly the same on the other side. That is my interpretation of what is known as cutting for the turntablist. Thank you very much, hope you enjoyed it. Bye bye.

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