Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ - Softcover

Webber, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876390106 ISBN 13: 9780876390108

Publisher: Berklee Press Publications, 2009

Synopsis

Learn to play the turntable like your favorite DJs and create your own style! This essential guidebook and companion 2-record set teaches you to play the turntable as a musical instrument. Using this first-ever turntable method, techniques and tricks can be mastered quickly and effectively. Includes step-by-step instructions on: setting up your equipment, scratching, beat matching, mixing, transforming, crabbing, crossfader technique, cutting and stabs. Book includes: photographs and musical exercises, tips on how the pros set up their gear for scratch mixing, and a history of DJing and hip-hop culture, plus interviews with top DJs such as: DJ Swamp (Beck), MixMaster Mike (Beastie Boys), DJ QBert (Invisibl Skratch Picklz), DJ Kuttin Kandi (5th Platoon/Anomolies), DJ A-Trak (Teenage DMC/ITF World Champion), and DJ Craze (three-time DMC World Champion). The companion records provide scorching grooves, phat beats, and wicked scratch material for DJs/turntablists of any level.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Webber is a Hal Leonard author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0876390106
• ISBN 13: 9780876390108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128