Been incorporating beat matching by ear a hour before each practice session. I understand the time it takes to master but I can still progress in other aspects.
It took me years to be able to train my ears to hear which bpm was fast and which was slow. It finally just clicked one day. Thankfully you can now use serato etc or always BPM count/label your records. Also I JUST learned through this tutorial about pitch control!! Jeez. Thanks Rob. Great as always!
One of the best things is besides Rob teaching us at any learning stage is that also he also teaches us how to teach. Maybe not as perfectly as he does but we can still show someone else those same teachings. Thanks Brolic army dj school.
When I learned way back when, I started with scratching. I later learned mixing and had a lot more fun than just scratching on a record. Man I wish I had a tutorial like this back then but definitely glad I have it now to iron things out.
Keylock isn’t good for scratching, because you want the pitch of the sound to change as you move the record faster or slower. Serato has the feature that is supposed to disengage keylock automatically if it detects you are scratching. Do you find it works well? Great video!
Key lock in certain cases does cause the scratch sound you might be trying to produce like the drag, sound weird. But I usually just keep it on and deal with it.
Pitch and time shouldn’t affect the way your scratches sound because depending on the velocity your hands move and the pressure you’re putting on the record, you have about 95% control of the scratch sound you’re coaxing out of the record. The only time pitch and time are affected during a scratch is when you’re executing techniques like the “drag” while your Serato program’s “key lock” feature is engaged. Your drags won’t sound as smooth as they do with the “key lock” feature off.
When you adjust the pitch and transition into a new song, do you gradually return the new song to the normal, intended pitch or do you keep it the adjusted pitch the whole way?
Barnanimal, I usually leave the speed of the new song alone. There’s really no need to readjust the speed back to 0 unless you need to do so for creative reasons.
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