How to Do Chirps on a Turntable

Video Transcript

" What's up? This is DJ Colione and on behalf of expertvillage.com and in this clip I am going to show you a scratch called chirps. So chirps are getting a little trickier because they are very specific on how you open and close your fader. With transformers, we could just go crazy and with babies we wouldn't even worry about the fader at all. So what you want to do for chirps, is you want to find the very start of the sound. So we have it right there, right? No sound, sound. Now the fader starts open on this scratch. Okay, as soon as you hear the sound you shut the fader off. So you just get a little, just the start of that sound. Right? So you push the record forward and as soon as you hear the sound, you cut the record off with a fader. Now you pull the record back and all you want to get is the end of this sound again. So you just sort of get an end of that sound. All you are really doing is you are only getting the sound at the very start. You are getting it once going forward and once going backward and in the middle, you are closing the fader. Again, you are pushing this forward and shutting it off. You are pulling it back and opening it. Right. Push and shut it off and pull it back and open. Now slowly it sounds a little funny but when you start to get it you get that first sound. That's the first sound and then the second sound point coming back, you get that sound. Right. You put them together and that is a chirp. So again you can alter the pitch to the speed of your hand but essentially your chirp is, with music. Once you get used to it, you can do it without even thinking. All you are doing again, is you are pushing forward, closing the fader and pulling back, opening the fader. Just getting the start little of the sound; one is going forward and one is going backwards and that is a chirp. "