Turntablism 101
Skratching Essentials
Genre: Audio
  • 18 Videos
  • 40m 0s
  • Quiz Available
Turntablism is an art form. And to get good, you've got to learn the essential skratching techniques to become a skilled turntablist. So load up your decks, fire up your mixer, and learn to skratch with Sara Simms and deejay stutter!
Sara Simms captivates the world as an innovative DJ, turntablist and electronic music producer. She's a multi-instrumentalist who's known for her love of music technology.
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This turntablism course, created by DJ, performance artist and educator Sara Simms, is designed to get you started in the world of skratching. Sara and featured artist deejay stutter take you step-by-step through the equipment, setup and foundational skratching techniques that every turntablist has to know!

First, you learn all about the basics of setting up your turntables and equipment. From there, Sara and deejay stutter show and explain various basic and intermediate skratching techniques including:

Baby Skratch
Forwards (Cutting)
Tears
Transformer
Chirps
Fades
One Click Flares

Finally, they dive into the skratch building blocks where you learn to put it all together and build the foundation of your performance. So watch and learn the basics of the art of turntablism in this 18-tutorial course!
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