What is scratching? Scratching is pretty much moving the record back and forth while it's played back, while the needle is on the record. Okay, so I am just going to show you the basic scratch patterns, the movements of the record relative to the crossfader. The record is what holds the sound. So if I let the record go, it would just go, and it's just the odd sound. I have this visual reference to tell me where the sound starts and where it ends, as long as I keep the sound moving there, I get a sound.
Lot of scratch DJs use the crossfader as well. You might be wondering what this does, pretty much an on and off switch. If I turn touch it on this side, it turns it off, I put in the middle it turns it on. So I am going to run you through some of the basics, I am going to do it over top of this beat.
I will show you five scratches. The first scratch is the Baby scratch, pretty much back and forward, simplest scratch. The next one that you learn is - this one to -- the Forward scratch and hear the forward; you don't hit it backward. Next one we learn is a Chirp scratch and it starts, the cross-fader in the middle. The chirpy sound is this is a slight cut at the end of the sound. You can still hear two sounds, the forward and the backward but this is slight silence makes it sort of a Pecado sound. And then the last two are the Joe Cooley and the Military.
And the Joe Cooley is pretty much two fast, one slow and the chirp on the slow part. Here it goes, two fast, slow, chirp, two fast, slow, chirp. The last one is Military March; two babies, two forwards, then forward, forward; sounds like a Military March.
Now I am going to do a little freestyle improvisation using only these five techniques, alright, on the top of this thing, okay. Yeah, that's scratching.
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