How to Use Scribbling When Scratching Turntables

Video Transcript

" What's up? This is DJ Colione on behalf of expertvillage.com and in this clip I am going to show you a scratch called scribbles. Now what scribbles are is essentially a really really really fast baby scratch so all you are going to do is again you are going to find the start of that sound, right, and that takes a little bit of getting used to. You are going to have to jerk your arm really fast and you want to go back and forth really fast. So it is kind of like if you were to scribble something, that is how fast you want to move your hands. You want to move it in a controlled manner on the record player. So essentially what it is is you have your baby scratch. That little quick sound is the scribble. That, that is a scribble. So basically what you can do is you can combine that with either a chirp or a flare, babies and you can get a cool little sound to kind of cut up to your flow when you are scratching. So if you are playing your beat, those would be scribble chirps and essentially all you are doing is you are throwing in the little scribble in there to mix up the flow. One technique to kind of keep in mind is you don't want your arms super tense or super loose. It is kind of a combination of having it semi-loose but also tight enough to get the pressure to do your little scribble and those are scribbles. "