All right folks, it is Jonathan here. This particular tutorial is all about throwing your record in the mix with nothing to do with CDJs to do with vinyl. First of all, what do I mean? Imagine that we have that track playing. And imagine that we got this on ready, we got it in beat and we want to throw this one in on bar, on phrase. And when we get it in beat in the mix, and of course, what you do is you start off like that. You can see it going. And then, you see a lot of DJs doing this and off it goes.
But of course, while we are doing this, that style light is rubbing across the records twice, forward once, backward once. Now if you think about it, let us say that this particular piece of vinyl has a lifespan of a thousand places. So, if I just started that off and let it play continually and do a scratch like that, it would play fast in times. But that first beat, if I am doing this, once, twice, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, then theoretically, that means that that first particular beat would only possibly have a life span of 100 times. Because 10 X 100 is 1000. Of course, over a period of time, what you do find and I bet that you got it specially, turntablists. But, you cannot really help that because they are going from back and forward from track to track anyway. But, what you find is, over a period of time, that first beat which start to sound very fuzzy and really dodgy. So, how do you do it whereby you do not have go ewewwewe like that.
Now, what I am going to do is I am going to give you a demonstration of what actual DJs, a lot of them, do actually do. Now bear in mind that we are going to play that track and I am going to be doing ewewewe back and forwards with this particular track. Now, normally, a DJ would not do this through the PA because what they are actually doing is that they will be doing ewewewe and they would have the headphones also. They would be listening to this through the headphones. I am only going to show you this as a demonstration so you can actually hear what the DJ would be hearing on the headphones in relation to that playing to the main PA system. That is the important.
Here we go. Now, what I have done as well before we do anything else, prior to this, I nearly have got this one beat matched.
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So, this is what a normal DJ would do on the headphone. The headphones are like this. Remember, the bars and tracers.
Let us stop it. I want you to imagine now, let us forget DJ. Let us all of a sudden pretend that we have never seen a DJ in our lives. But, we are really in to bowls. If you do not know what bowls are, if you imagine that small little tiny bowl and someone chucks it like half of a mile away and you got these people on a really flat green that looks like a carpet. And, they chuck bowls, this tiny small little bowl. Now those people, the professionals are fantastic because they have trained their arm, they trained everything and they know exactly how to – you know, the arm movement and the way they hold the bowl and the direction is trained perfectly. Think about it now. This is what I want you to do. I want you to find the most dodgiest record that you got that you really do not care about anymore and I want you to practice just doing this.
What you will do is to find the beginning like this [demonstration]. Now again, do not do this [demonstration]. First of all, get a line. Find a marker pen and have a line at that precise point where you got that first boom.
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