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    What do you consider to be basic skratching techs?

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    cuz, the people like how i used to be will for the 1st 12mths sound unclean but more technical, others will sound clean but very basic...but peops having good flow.

     

    after a few yrs most ways of learning for peops will catch up with each other when the time is right.

     

    as everyone says...

     

    do what u wanna do at the time...

     

    if u wanna start learn flares before transforms then great, if u wanna learn transforms b4 babies and drags then fine, the whole thing is one big learning curve.

     

    Of course people should do what they feel like. The problem is that most beginners want to be the next world champ in a week and start with the advanced stuff and end up sounding like shit for a long time. I've experienced myself how hard it is to get rid of bad habbits because of moving ahead technically before being ready (I had the basics down hampster style, but changed to regular style and started learning all the tech ish before learning all the basics over again regular style).

     

    Flares are more technical than a lot of the basics, but I actually think it's harder to get transforms down tight and sounding right at various tempos than one click flare orbits. Same goes with chirps and tears. But flares has a much more complex sound and it takes much more practice to hear what sounds right and tight, both when others do it and (especially) when you do it yourself. It's much easier to sound like shit when it comes to flares. If you do some of the basic techniques you can actually be a little sloppy and still sound pretty good, because we're all used to old school cuts which tended to be a bit sloppy sometimes. You can get pretty "soulful" with sloppy chirps and transforms while it's pretty much impossible to sound good with sloppy flares.

     

    When learning all the advanced stuff first I think the whole learning process takes much longer time because of two things: You need to get a much higher understanding of how scratching "should" sound to even do anything that sounds good (to a trained ear), and you probably have to learn a lot of shit over again because you have so much bad habbits and all your "fundamentals" (which you in fact lack) is mad sloppy and untight.

     

    I'd rather listen to someone who has been scratching for 3 months who are basic and clean than someone who has been scratching for 1-2 years (or more) who are technical but unclean. Peeps in the last category is mostly what I hear, and they totally doesn't understand it themselves.

     

    Of course this is a bit individual, I've heard peeps who has been scratching for a short period who only do advanced stuff and still sound good. But generally I think most people are better off starting with the basics.

    Summertime

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    Posted · Edited by Graft

    Here's a few hip-hop tunes that I think is "summer"

     

    A Tribe Called Quest - Oh My God

    Erick Sermon - Bomdigi

    Franke Cutlass - Puerto Rico (original mix)

    Pharcyde - Runnin'

    Common Sense - Ressurection

    Lost Boys - Get Up

    115 - Garcia Vega

    Camp Lo - Black Connection

     

    ...and the list goes on and on and on

    What do you consider to be basic skratching techs?

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    Everybody is talking about that one should learn the basics before moving to the more advanced stuff. But what is basics?

     

    I've just been involved in a discussion at another (norwegian) board about basic scratches. In my opinion techniques like babies, forwards, stabs, tears, chirps and maybe transforms are among the basic techniques (the first ones more basic than the last ones). However, I see that some peeps (mostly new school cats?) consider even crabs and flares to be basic techniques. They consider combos of techniques to be advanced techniques.

     

    What do you think?

    Short practice file

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    A good thing to keep in mind when scratching/recording is to turn down your low end on your eq's (for your sample) as when you manipulate ahhh/fresh you don't really want any extra low frequencies you might pick up from your hands touching the vinyl.

     

    Yeah, I'm aware of that, I use to do that... Maybe I forgot it this time? hm... Thanks anyway :)

    Short practice file

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    Thanks for feedback! It's appreciated.

     

    When it comes to the crossfader-work, I've actually been expreimenting with getting a little "sluggish" (meaning that I get a little behind the beat), especially in the end of bars or phrases. I haven't really made up my mind about it yet, but the idea was that if it's not like "powerscratches" but more careful stuff I think it might help to add a little more soulfull feeling to the cuts. Anyone got any thoughts about this? However, this doesn't mean that I don't have to practice on being tight ;)

     

    About the record hand, I agree that I need to loosen up more. I've been working on that after I recorded that clip (about two months ago), so it's better now but I will probably allways need more practice.

     

    I'm aware that the sound quality sux and that the cuts are a little too high, but it's only a practice snippet + I like to have the volume of the skratching a bit higher than normal when I practice cause it makes it easier to hear what's going on and what I need to be tighter on.

     

    Thanks again!

    Peace!

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