Added: Jul 7, 2008

From: cypherstyles

Duration: 4:57

get this full length video at www.CypherStyles.comLearn everything you need to know to start crafting your own phat beats and hardcore grooves on the turntable. Based on the Best-selling Book/2-Record set, you will learn about:- Equipment set up- Mixing Techniques- Cueing- Beat Matching- Basic Scratching- Dragging- Crabs and FlaresSteven Webber is an Emmy award winning composer and professor music production and engineering at Berklee College of Music . He has produced, engineered, or played on upwards of 100 albums.Reviews: "This is definitely a good place to start if you have recently picked up a pair of decks and a mixer." -- Remix Magazine

Channel: Music

Tags: art  dj  learn  of  scratch  spin  technique  the  to  turntable 

Rating: 3.56 (131 ratings)    Views: 89701' favoriteCount='266    Comments: 134

depletedmind Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - haha um yes funny stuff

djtoonraider666 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - my pltter also stops when i hold my record why is this there numark tt1520

huntertrueblu Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - I wouldn't be so quick to judge him. He's teaching very basic things, he may be able to tear it up freestyle. its like a piano teacher showing you how to play the c major scale, he may be able to play so much more than that, but he's staying on point and only using what he's teaching

elasticxplastic Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - This guy sucks dick.

KurtRip94 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - its almost a straight copy of dj shortee

mrdeedz1 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - It sounds like something i would have dug....back in 1983. He's helpful, but watching this is like watching someone paint an oil paiting on the public access channel.

techmotive Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - This is wrong. Scratching is hip hop. This isnt hip hop. I don't know what it is. Sorry dude, just constructive criticism. Just watch "Scratch." Its a documentary about hip hop and how the scratch came to be and how its evolved.

stevejammer Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - How come you do your forward tear the same way you do your backward tear? Are you crazy or something? Yeah, I think you are, yea you are, uh huh, yes you are, yes huh, yep.

chulo113 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - He's a music professor. The turntable is like any other instrument. It's gotta sound good before it looks cool. I'm sure all those who hate this suck balls at scratching because they don't understand music. Thats ok because its hip hop if you suck. hahaha.

AarmOZ Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - That is true. If you go to the London School of Contemperary Music... you can actually take classes in DJing.

ProjektRaRa Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - because the Numark tt1520's torque sucks. i have a set of those as well. not decent in the least. backspins REALLY f up the rpm.

ProjektRaRa Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - djtoon, it can also be a slipmat issue on top of the junk decks. butter rugs ftw.

danriv14 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - The man teaches at Berklee College of Music, I have had class with him and when he wants to he can tear it up. However that wasn't the point of this video. He's showing the basics the same way you should a clarinet student how to soak their reed and make sound with their mouthpiece and anybody that has heard just a clarinet mouthpiece knows that it isn't really entertaining either. But it isn't his job to impress you like other youtube posters, he is on here to spread the art and i respect that

miniroll32 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - Because the platter is not spinning dumbass! If the motor was running he would let go and then pull back, but he's only teaching the basics.

stevejammer Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - You're the dumbass, fuckhead. You don't know what you're talking about, and this guy sucks, too.

str3123 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - baby scratch...

Novelboy2112 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - That being said, any help finding video of someone tearin' it up?

Falc0re Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - this is so funny... white old guys with beards who think they can explain everything in the world, know best, know it all, and sell everything. although there are things they should not try.

okidot Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - qbert is best ive seen

okidot Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - go start another race

okidot Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - speaking of evolution, its evolved beyond hip hop at this stage. you dont have much of a point.

okidot Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - thats a backwards view. you think the people that dont understand music or scratching are the ones disliking this video? its the other way around. someone that actually has knowledge of the turttable and methods would immediatley see this video as messy. someone that sucks would have something to learn from this video. he may be doing basics, but he is very untidy and lacks precision in even the basic techniques he was showing. your comment is pretty ignorant to the reality of the situation.

techmotive Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - What does having a beard have to do with it? Beards are the shit... You probably just wish you could grow one.

chulo113 Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - I wrote a long reply and deleted it, I realized your retarded and that you don't deserve a well thought out reply.

fourwallsofsound Says:

Jul 7, 2008 - wow..this guy really sucks . it's funny tho