Lesson 3 Turntabalist scratch move for the beginner

0:00 Do this move

Alright folks, this is lesson three in turntablism for DJs. If you're just watching this one for the first time, I suggest you go and watch a load of others I did last year which basically show the very basics of how to scratch. In this lesson I'll show you how to do this move. What you need to do is you need to find the beginning of the scratch with your headphones. Let's say we've got the headphones on. Just there. I'll stop the platter for the time being. Again with this one, what you need to do, if the record's moving at 33, the platter should be moving at 33. If the record's 45, platter should be at 45. So we're going to turn the platter on. So it's on now. And there we go, I've got it ready. First move is volume up.

1:14 Forward backwards

Second move, what we're going to do is we're going to move the record forward, backwards, forward, backwards. Have a listen. Like so. But by changing the frequency, the speed of movements, we can make it sound like this. This is what I want you to do and this is where you can practice scratching. Even without turntables. I have done a video on scratching a zip, because you can do that anywhere, because a zip has a... But what did I just do with my voice then? Now that if you think about it, you can do that with this as well. So what I want you to practice is that. This is what I was doing. Forward, back, forward, back, forward.

2:22 Forward and I finish with forward

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. OK? Listen again. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Now then, if you think there's seven movements and the first movement is forward, so you have forward, back, forward, back, forward, back, forward. Seven movements. So I start with forward and I finish with forward. That's how we get that sound. I'll show you again. But also, if you listen, what I'm doing is I'm using a tiny bit of the beginning of the scratch and then the last move I'm using a lot. Have a listen. There's the beginning.

What you can see, if you notice this black mark here, when I do the first few moves up to the sixth move, it's only moving a tiny bit. The last one, it moves quite a bit. I'll show you again. So, the first move is volume up. The second move is the seven movements. Forward, back, forward, back, forward, back, forward. The third move is bring your volume down. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy.

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