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Summary: Use a doubles to extend the break when scratching on turntables; learn how with expert tips from our professional disc jockey in this free DJ video music lesson.
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"DJ Trails with hiphopelements.com. We are going give you little doubles demonstration right now. We are going to show you basically how to extend the break, which is a drum solo on a record or any part of the record that you want to extend right now. We are going to play one side and we are going to play same record on the other side. We are going to use the visual markers and the cues that we set up to play the same beat over and over. Let us say some vocals come in. I do not want the vocals to play; I just want the drums to keep playing. So I am tuning up my markers for vocal block and I am just going to keep playing the same thing. I am going to throw in some scratches and this is all sorts of tricks of doubles and there are all sorts of tricks with doubles demonstration. This is just a little doubles demonstration. "