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7th July 2009
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| Gear addict Join Date: Apr 2008
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Thread Starter | learning how to scratch? whats the best way of learning how todo it? anyone can recommend some dvds or something? or should i just hire qbert and call it a day (i wish haha) i wanna use it like premier does on beats he produces. |
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7th July 2009
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Denmark
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| Get a decent deck and practice. There are tons of tutorials made by DJ Qbert. I remember that's what I used when I tried scratching. It's harder than it seems though; you need a lot of practice. I was hoping it was easy, so I can put some scratch when I have a DJ set, but apparently I was wrong.
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7th July 2009
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Thread Starter | its true how easy it does look. i got myself a 1210 this weekend but i suck at trying to make anything good come out them speakers when i scratch sounds like junk haha. |
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8th July 2009
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA
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 | You just have to practice. After a while you learn to connect your thoughts with your turntables/mixer and you can kind of just think of a scratch and know how to move the record/fader to pull it off. The two fundamentals of scratching (and music in general) are rhythm and pitch. The pitch is determined by how fast you are moving the record (for the most part,) and the rhythm is being determined by the record movement and the fader. You essentially create a combination of rhythmic values to get a scratch. You use the fader to turn the sound on and off to create rhythm and/or to leave out certain record movements. Try to look at it like any other instrument (1/4 note, 1/16 note, 1/8 note triplet, etc). Combine different crossfader rhythms with different record movement rhythms. Note that you can be doing a slower rhythm with a fast speed or a fast rhythm with a slow speed, and therefore change the tone or pitch of the scratch. For example I could do 1/8 note record movement with short hand bursts (resulting in a higher pitch sound), or I can take the same 1/8th note and move the record slower so that the pitch of the sample is lower. I hope that makes sense. The Qbert video is definitely worth watching, just be sure to practice and don't expect it to come instantly (be patient.)
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8th July 2009
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| Gear addict Join Date: Apr 2008
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Thread Starter | anyone can recommend some dvds please?  |
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA
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| Gear Head  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: vienna / austria
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: The City Of Brotherly Love And Sisterly Affection
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| Not hatin on scratching but...I always thought that scratching was so juvenile ,moronic and "comic book like" But hey..who the f**k am I to say
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: The City Of Brotherly Love And Sisterly Affection
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So what?? Is it a freekin crime?? | |
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8th July 2009
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| Practise! The turntable is an instrument, just like any other instrument. You have to put in time to develop skills. The Qbert DVD might be a good starting point to see some basics, however, I suggest you to go & find some good DJ´s in your area that you can learn from in person.
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8th July 2009
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oakland, Ca
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| Youtube... YouTube - Q-Bert : DIY Scratching Vol.1 - Babys There's so many tutorials it's not even funny... just  and practice |
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9th July 2009
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| Lives for gear  | Fly me out and I'll school you. |
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9th July 2009
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| Gear nut  Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Orlando, FL
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| I can only say is watch alot DMC videos and practice until you hate scratching and the practice some more. |
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| Gear addict  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indianapolis
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| Dj q-berts dvds are great and entertaining. just put in work Quote:
scratching IS hip hop...this is the hop hip production forumtutt | |
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9th July 2009
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| Lives for gear | It takes several years to be good at it - so be prepared for the hard work and practice |
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9th July 2009
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: U.S.A.
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| wow..it has been about 20 years since I scratched...I was the famous WHITE BOY in the hood the could do it!! God the memories...just practice man, get good at working the fader (mixer)..god anyone remember TRANSFORMING...the good old day's!!! I miss it!! This pic is from 1990..and yes, our house was falling apart!! |
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