All right. In this video, what we are going to do is looking at something called beat juggling. Now a lot of people actually think that beat juggling is basically just for turntablists. Well, that is incorrect. If you listen to the word “beat juggling”, too fast, it is beat, the beat of the drum, bang, bang, bang. And juggling is what a jugglist does. He just juggles items like oranges, apples and chimpanzees and that sort of stuff.
Now, what we are going to do is that I want you to look at a piece of paper that I got in front of me. Now, I am just lowering the camera down a bit and try to explain to you the idea and the principle behind it. Now then, it is always easy to watch people but it is very difficult to understand what on earth they are doing and how they manage to do that. But at the end of the day, they have got to be doing something correct because a good turntablist or a beat juggler can actually manipulate the beats so perfectly that you cannot hear any particular join. It is almost as though it is a continual flow of music. Now, that is a good turntablist.
What we got on the center of this piece of paper is we have got from 1 to 12 but we got it twice. The reason being is simply this. If you imagine now, if I fold up a piece of paper in half, that is one turntable. So that is turntable number one which is here on the left hand side. And then, the lengthwise, if I fold it again, this is turntable number two on the right hand side. Now, you can also see from 1 to 8 is colored slightly red. That is because I cannot find any blinking pens. And then, you got 9 and 10 at the top. On the left hand side, you got 1 to 4 and then you got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Now then, when I am going into detail, I am trying to anyway because this is quite difficult to explain. If you imagine that the numbers in the middle are the beats, so we got boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, like so. If you imagine that the numbers in the red boxes or in the red lines here are the actually beats of the records. Now, this is very important.
Now then, the beat starts off together. One, two, three, four. Now at four, I will stop that one and then I will physically stop that record while the volume is still up. And then the second one, 5, 6 will go on by itself. But then, when we get here, I am going to let go of this record so then they are both going together, 7,8, and then I am going to put my finger on this one here. And then as you can see, what is happening now is that this particular one that I have stopped for those two beats there has got chanced with those two beats to catch up. So then, at this point, they are both exactly at the same position again.
This is why you see some turntablist that are doing this. They go, stopping that one and letting this one go and then stopping that one and then letting this one go and stopping that one and letting this one go. So, if you think about it, they are stopping this record letting this one go. At that point where they are letting it go, what is happening is that this one is going forward a bit. So, they have to stop it and then let this one go. So, this goes forward. In essence really, it is almost like footsteps moving forward. Now, that is sort of in theory.
Now, what we are going to do in the next video is that I am going to try and show it to you in practice. Thank you and enjoy.
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