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How to Use Drags on a Turntable

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From Quick Guide: DJ Equipment Basics

Summary: Use drags to scratch on a turntable when mixing music as a DJ. Learn how with tips from our professional disc jockey in this free DJ video music lesson.

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By Corey Black
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Corey Black aka the Turntabalist has been working as a DJ for over 15 years. He first became interested in being a DJ at a local family gathering and his interest just grew from there....read more

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"Corey Black here again turntables we are on scratch number seven. I like to call this drags. What we got right here is pretty much you are using the sample that we always using but, what you are going to do is cross the fader for it to come in but you are going to purposely keep your hand on the record so you could drag it. It could be backwards. So what I'm going to do to show you how to do this I'm going to use some of the scratches that we done before to see how it would incorporates within with all the other scratches. Hit the beat."

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