>> DJ Craze's - Mix and Scratch Workshop
>> Lesson 3
The Scratch
There are basically a lot of battle records out there that
have samples you can cut on, a lot of scratching sounds, you
know, a lot of bass tones, weird noises that you can cut up.
What makes a good scratch is something that doesn't really
hurt the ear.
The Baby Scratch
I could be here all day long talking about how to scratch
but this it, basically. The basics are; what's called the
Baby Scratch, which is just pulling the record forward and
backwards. That's the most basic scratch and that's what you
really gotta' learn if you wanna' ever start scratching -
you can't run before you walk.
The Military Scratch
This is the other scratch which incorporates the cross-fader
and the Baby Scratch. So what I'm doing here is I'm clicking
the fader once, in and out, while I'm doing the Baby Scratch.
That's called the Military Scratch.
Marking
A good thing to do when you're scratching is to mark the record
so you know exactly where the scratch begins, so you don't
have to be all lost. You just look at the record, look at
the point where it starts and that way you'll know where you're
at, at all times.
The way I do it is; I get a little piece of tape and put it
on the middle of the record. You can just look at the middle
of the record and you know where you're at. No matter where
I go, I know where it starts.
Making The Sounds
There are a lot of different sounds you can scratch on. You
can make a sound in a million ways. The way I'm doing it is,
I'm pushing the record real fast or pushing the record real
slow.
There are these other things called tears which make it sound
like you're time stretching the sample. What I'm doing is
pushing the record real slow forward and real slow backwards.
When you do that, you try to get faster.
Sharper Sounds
One thing I forgot to explain is that, at the same time when
you're doing that, you're crossing the fader in and out so
you don't here all the other sounds you don't wanna hear.
It sounds sharper, that's why the fader is important - because
everything sounds a little sharper. That's why you doing the
Baby Scratch it sounds like you're not doing anything but
when you but when you use the fader it makes it sound sharp.
Mix With Scratching
Start off with the Baby Scratch, now move onto the Military
Scratch. When you had a lot of practice you can do it a little
bit quicker. Now you move onto combos, you try to incorporate
all those scratches into one.
So that's how you combine all the scratching to a beat. Put
a couple hours into it and learn how do it yourself.
