How to Scratch Records as a DJ
On be half of TVlesson.com my name is Eric Roman otherwise known as DJ Empire.
In this video, I’m going to show you how to do some basic scratching techniques. I’m not greatest scratch DJ but it’s important to have because it’s a tool in your arsenal that you can use to bring in new music that you are not familiar with in playing normally. So we come over here. I’ll show you that scratching is very simple. All it is taking the record and moving your hand back and fort, that’s all it is. Very simple, very easily done, what you incorporate with scratching and cutting is your cross fader which is this thing right here and your sliders.
You have to make sure that you are not too loud so you don’t over power the song that you’ re playing. So, I like to stay a little lower and readjust the levels as I scratch. So, we’re going to go, there’s actually two ways of scratching and there’s normal way which DJ’s have use throughout time which is the left side controls that opens up the left player and vise versa with the right side so it sounds something like this. Okay.
I’m actually backwards so I’m going to one go my way which I’m a little more comfortable which is the right side opens up the left player which is like this. So, essentially all scratching is, is you’re getting the record and doing back and fort movement and then with the other hand, and you can get a little more fancy or faster and that’s how you scratch. If we go ahead and play a song right here, now I’ve chosen this instrumental just to show you what scratching can look like and sound like. And essentially that what’s scratching can be an as you practice it, you can get better and throw in some more interesting tricks that you’ll learn along the way.
On behalf of TVlesson.com this has been DJ Empire. Thank you for watching.
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