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^^I've been doing this scratch for a while now, although I never knew it was called a Tugjob! I think I prefer 'delayed 3-click' I'd recommend learning it over slow beats first. Sounds obvious but it gets really starts getting difficult at 90+BPM.

Dope mix, Mr L! Really nice work.

This is also a good one in a similar vein. Right at the end, when he says "Erasuuuurghhhhh".

I know right. Premier is almost as bad. Still though, tons on dope scratchers on there I had no clue about, dudes from Italy, Russia, etc. Tons of people on this site posting some dope stuff. Nice one man. Any recommendations? Kirky's been posting some cool stuff from the tour.

Didn't that happen to Brian Harvey from East 17?

Everyone has seen that episode with the evil Hoff from a parallel universe. South Park did a send up of it. I like the way they sped up the footage of the car cruising down the motorway, to make it look like it was doing 200mph, then it goes under a flyover and you see all the cars going across the flyover, also at warp speed. Why didn't anyone tell me you could get Pamela Anderson cola bottles??

One thing I've learned is that if you follow Pete Rock on Instagram, your feed will be 80% Pete Rock posts.

Yeah, nice! You'll have a blast doing that Good luck!

I still haven't got that knuckle flick technique down.

Seriously, what the fuck??

I'm already on your Patreon but I'll still cop the physical book

Haha, I've been doing it wrong all these years!

My first 7" was Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry. I don't think there's any need to post a YouTube link! At least it wasn't that song she did with the bloke with the car horn voice. That was dreadful - LOL.

Is he calling himself The Lawnmower Man now?

This is huge mate, well done! Is this likely to reach Apple Music?

I couldn't agree more. However, Williams missed a trick. Personally I'd be much more upset if he was blasting his own music through the wall, rather than Sabbath or Deep Purple.

I'm now at the stage where I see people who are better at scratching than me who have been doing it ten years less! Has anyone checked out that Kwote Music guy? I find a lot of his advice really helpful, especially about how to practise. Also Chile's heuristic videos. One thing I learned recently is to drill the transition between techniques. If your freestyle sounds sloppy in places, it might be because you haven't mastered how to go from orbits to stabs, for example. In all the years I've been scratching it never occurred to me! I don't think there's any harm in beginners following a few good tutorials to learn the basics. Being self-taught isn't all good; you can cultivate bad habits and not even know they're bad. That said, you can also learn some badass tricks by misinterpreting something you've heard (didn't Toadstyle mistake Babu's orbits for transforming?)

Practicing over DJ Premier-esque instrumentals instead of sparse tracks that allow your cuts to stand out. Lifting your hand way above the record when you let it go. Trying to vary your patterns too much, i.e. thinking that repetition of patterns is a bad thing. Chirping everything instead of incorporating babies and dices. Not learning stabs.

Got mine last month and I'm still cutting over the instrumental!

YES! Actually, I've been using that sample a lot lately. So nice to cut with.

Welcome to the board matey! Peep these beats, people.

That's a good idea. The only trouble is that most of my records are covered in shit. I'd happily sell all of my mediocre rap 12"s for £150 but I don't think anyone would pay it. I might see if I can fish out anything in VG+ or NM condition and sell it all as a bundle. Good shout! Maybe I should make a Mediocre Rap Megamix and then burn all the records in a field. I did think about making a Fake Premo mix of tracks from the early 2000's, when everyone was making beats that sounded like Premier and it was all over-compressed drums and multi-sample cut up choruses.

Arrgh! You've got me started now. The worst thing is that I paid full whack for all of those 12's (£7 or £8 a piece) and I couldn't give them away now, even if they were in mint condition!

I bought loads of lackluster indie Hip Hop in my early 20's, which I certainly wouldn't listen to again. I'm sure you've all heard me gripe about this before so I'll spare you the details