All right folks. In this selection of videos, we are going to be looking at a bit of turntablism. Again, this is for the turning like a beginner. If you are not familiar with cutting and scratching that kind of stuff and you are a complete and totally as a beginner, there are a lot of videos in YouTube from lots of other DJs. And also, I have done three of them showing the very, very basics. In other words, basically how to even touch and move a record backwards and forwards. I did those way last year. I think that it was about September last year. So I suggest that you check those at first.
In this one, what we are going to be doing is this move. [mixing]. Okay. Now then, if you can hear that, you could hear sort of a “hee hoo hee hoo”. Now then, what I was actually doing is simply this. I was letting the record move forward at its own accord. If the turntable platter was at 45 RPM, the record would have been turning at 45 RPM. If the record platter was going at 33 RPM, the record would have been going at 33 RPM.
The reason that I am saying that is simply this. Sometimes if you put the turntable on and you hold your finger on the record, [scratching] even though the turntable is moving at a constant speed, because you have your finger on the record, you are slowing and speeding it up according to how much you want to move the record. But the particular scratch that I have showed you is basically two moves. The first move is quite simply this: When you get to the beginning of the scratch [scratching], you will have your fingers on the record. I have to use my other hand to do this slowly. Now, what I am doing is that I am taking my finger off the record. Remember that in the first three videos that I did, there is that magnet. There is an imaginary magnet at this point here so I am letting my finger off the record letting it go forward like so [scratching]. Putting my finger on the record and then what I am doing, instead of letting the record come back at its normal speed, I am bringing I back slower. [scratching] I will show you again, but this time faster [scratching]. It is quite difficult to do slow but I will explain again.
Now then, when I start the scratch, my finger is on the record, this platter is moving and I have got my finger right at the beginning of the scratch. What will happen then is that as soon as I take my finger off, if I leave my finger here, the record will move forward and I have lost the place, I have lost the position at where my finger was originally. So, my finger will have to follow the record. As soon as the scratch is finished where I want to stop the record, I will put my finger down. But then, what I will do is, instead of bringing it back fast, I will bring it back slowly. And you can actually do this scratch with the volume up continually. I will show you again. It may take me a little bit of time to get me varies but we will get into those. [scratch] So, here is the beginning. Know where my finger is. [scratching]. There is lesson number on. Actually, this is lesson number one for today. Practice and enjoy.
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