How to Do a Baby Scratch on Turntables

How to Do a Baby Scratch on Turntables
What's up? This is DJ Colione on behalf of expertvillage.com and in this clip we are going to get into the fun stuff of vinyl Djing which is scratching. So there is a whole evolution of where scratching started and where it is now and the different techniques. I am going to start you off with some basics and just show you some basic scratches you can do in a sense sort of sound the best. Sometimes simplest is the best so the very first thing you can do the very first scratch was invented by Grand Master Theodore and it was sort of before they had any kind of cool faders that had cool tricks on them and as the story goes, what happened was he was practicing in his room Djing and he had a record cued up and his mom was trying to tell him to do something and he was sitting there going yea, yea , yea and he was moving the record back and forth and listening to it. Oh, this is sounding cool because he was waiting his mom was giving him crap or something and he was just doing this and he started to hear, oh that sounds ill right. That is the invention of the first scratch called the baby scratch and essentially it is a fader that was scratched. You are not doing anything with the fader and all you are doing is going back and forth with the record. It sounds simple which it is but it is great because it starts to give the DJ the feel of the record and what you can kind of do with just moving the record back and forth. You play a beat; that sounds pretty cool. Right? I'm not doing anything. All I'm doing is just listening to the record back and forth. To a beat I am changing a speed that I am pushing at. I'm either opening it or pushing it forward and you are getting different sounds. So you can hear how many different sounds just with the movement of the record you can get. Right? You can do it fast or do it slow. You can play the record out. So essentially that is the baby scratch. All you are doing is keeping the fader wide open, just manipulating the sound with your hand moving back and forth. The more you practice that the more you get used to it and you will figure out how to make different kinds of sounds and pitches just with using your hand.