Lesson 4 Turntabalist move , edit an acappella

0:00 This is the fourth video today in The Art of Turntablism

Alright folks, this is the fourth video today in The Art of Turntablism. First three videos of, it's the 16th of March, sorry. In the first three videos what we looked at was basic moves with a sample and we moved it the old wiki-wiki, we moved it backwards and forwards. In this one what we're going to be doing is we're going to be actually sampling an acapella. Now an acapella is basically a part of... The actual tune, where there's no melody, no bassline, no beat. It's just someone speaking or someone rapping or perhaps a female or a male singer singing. No melody, no bassline, nothing at all. The two tracks I'm going to be using is Onyx, Throw Your Guns, and then I'm going to be utilising EPMD, So What You're Saying. There you go. Now then, this is what the two of them sound like separately. Okay, and this is Onyx.

1:08 I'm going to be using that take em up two different ways

Now then, what I'm going to be doing is this. If you imagine the beat, boom, boom, boom, boom, and we have here... I'm going to be using that take em up two different ways. There's a very, very subtle difference in between the first time I bring it in and the second time I bring it in. But there is a big difference if I use the two of them together in a mix. Now then, the first time I'm going to bring... Take em up in is on the first bass beat. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Take em up, boom. Take em up, boom. Take em up, boom. Take em up, boom. I'll show you. Okay, that was the first move. Now the next move, I'm going to wait a fraction after that beat and then put it in. So I'll show you. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, take em up. Boom, take em up. Boom, take em up. Boom, take em up.

3:05 First three videos I did, I

So instead of boom, boom, boom, boom, take them up, boom, take them up, boom. I'm going to do this. Boom, take them up, boom, take them up. I'll show you. Get it ready? Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to mess around and do the two together. But bearing in mind, I'm only sampling this particular acapella. I'm not scratching it. I'm sampling it. There's a very big difference where that's concerned. So we'll put the two together. Also... What's happening is this. I suggest if you're not familiar with turntablism, look at the first three videos I did, I think it was towards the latter part of last year, and I'd like you to take note of the idea and the philosophy I have behind when you put your finger on the record and you take it off, remember there's a magnet attached to your finger and the record. If you don't know what I'm on about, look at the first three videos I ever did.

On the art of scratching for the total and utter beginner. So like I said, we'll utilise those two moves into the one move now. Find the beginning. Okay, off we go. Very, very tiny subtle difference. But if you can get that right, which I nearly did, it sounds good. Hope I've been a help. Practice and enjoy.

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