TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS

I'm going to post few simple techniques for the beginners. As you know, the fundamentals are most important things in anything, so practicing those elementary tech is really important.


Baby scratch - The simplest scratch form, it is performed with the scratching hand only, moving the record back and forth in continuous movements while the crossfader is in the open position.

This is my playing. -_-;;
Thanks to DJ Q-Bert, more detailed information you can get through his tutorial video.

Tear Scratch - Tear scratches are scratches where the record is moved in a staggered fashion, dividing the forward and backward movement into two or more movements. This allows creating sounds similar to "flare scratches" without use of the crossfader and it allows for more complex rhythmic patterns. The term can also refer to a simpler, slower version of the chirp.

Chirp scratch - The chirp scratch involves closing the fader just after playing the start of a sound .. and as you shut the sound off you should also stop the record moving at that point too , then reverse manouvre the record while opening the fader to get a kinda " chir-pa " pattern simply from one baby scratch and a cut in the centre . When performed using a recording of drums this allows creating the illusion of doubled scratching speed, due to the attack created by cutting in the crossfader on the backward movement.

If you practice those skills for a while, you can mimic the "Rock it" performance of GrandMixer D.ST with Herbie Hancock, that I posted before.