DJ Scratching Techniques: Working With a Channel Fader

Series Summary

Using turntables, CD players or an MP3 player, a DJ selects and plays music in some type of a club setting. The setting may be a neighborhood party, a small club, a disco, a rave, or even a stadium. A professional DJ must love music and entertain people. The main focus of a DJ is on the music they play and how they mix beats and remix tracks in and out of each other or also just to add a bit of energy to a track. A DJ will build a set by choosing tracks to control the energy level of the crowd and use beatmixing techniques to create seamless transitions between tracks. In this free video on dj scratches, an experienced disc jockey will demonstrate intermediate scratches such as clover (four-way) tears, as well as how to use the cross fader and channel fader. He explains each scratch and fader move and tells you how to practice them as you develop your own disc jockey style. After mastering these advanced dj moves, you will catch the eye of club owners as well as party-goers! And just maybe you will be able to build up your skills and reputation enough to become the next Q-bert or Cut Chemist!

Video Transcript

"In this series we'll be talking about several different new concepts when scratching. We'll be looking at multiple way tersest, so completely faderless scratching, where you're tearing two or three ways forward into a three ways backward, We'll be learning a couple new scratches, new rudiments involving two or three fader clicks like the wheeler flare, or an upside downer or backwards flare. We'll also, more importantly, be moving away from the cross fader and start doing some steps with the channel fader. Now it's most important to realize that the channel fader is backwards from the cross fader. We'll go over that in future videos, but you're going to have to backwards then you were with all the other scratches when working with the cross fader. Also, I'll be showing you some more techniques, better record positioning, where you should be feeling with your muscles, and more importantly, moving away from looking a the label of the record and thinking about it with your ears and your head."