The One, Two Patten

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There are 2 new things to get used to to learn this patten, the first is that instead of cuing the beat on the first beat of the bar you will be cuing on the last beat of the previous bar. The second thing to get used to is moving the cross fader without touching the record, this sounds easy and it will be but at first it may seem unnatural but this will change very quickly.

 

At first I would recommend you pick a beat which just goes kick, snare, kick, snare, etc.

 

First thing to do to get started is cue both records up on the last snare of the previous bar. Now let the first record go, the cued up snare will sound then the kick (the down beat), what you do now is move the fader across to the other deck and release the record so the snare sounds between the kick and the snare (1/8th note after the kick) on the first deck. Next put the fader back to the first record to hear the snare. Now cut the fader back to the second deck (you should get a kick) and pull the record on the first deck back to repeat the snare which has just played, then put the fader back so the snare is repeated. Now put the fader back onto the second deck and as the snare is played spin the record back to the snare it was first cued up on. Now when you let the record go to restart the pattern.