DJ Skills

The essential guide to Mixing and Scratching

Stephen Webber

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Routledge
05 February 2018

Music recording & reproduction; Audio processing

DJ Skills: The Essential Guide to Mixing & Scratching is the most comprehensive, up to date approach to DJing ever produced. With insights from top club, mobile, and scratch DJs, the book includes many teaching strategies developed in the Berklee College of Music prototype DJ lab.

From scratching and mixing skills to the latest trends in DVD and video mixing this book gives you access to all the tools, tips and techniques you need. Topics like hand position are taught in a completely new way, and close-up photos of famous DJ's hands are featured. As well as the step-by-step photos the book includes downloadable resources to demonstrate techniques. This book is perfect for intermediate and advanced DJs looking to improve their skills in both the analogue and digital domain.

By: Stephen Webber
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 189mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138416369
ISBN 10: 1138416363
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 05 February 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1 The Revolution; Chapter 1 The Revolution of Records; Chapter 2 The Rise of the Radio DJ; Chapter 3 The Rise of the Club/Rave DJ; Chapter 3.1 BT's Adventures in Sonic Architecture; Chapter 3.2 Paul Oakenfold; Chapter 4 The Rise of the Hip-hop DJ; Chapter 4.1 Rob Swift: Eloquent X-ecutioner; Chapter 4.2 DJ Shadow: The Berklee Seminar; Chapter 5 The Scratch DJ Revolution; Chapter 5.1 DJ QBert's Perpetual Revolution; Chapter 5.2 Kid Koala: DJ as Storyteller; Chapter 6 The Rise of the DJ As Musician; Chapter 6.1 Herbie Hancock: The Inspiration of the DJ; Chapter 6.2 Logic's Project: Evolving from DJ into Musician; Chapter 6.3 Faust and Shortee: Two Turntablists Mix Music and Life; Chapter 6.4 On the Classical World's Radar; Part 2 The Tools; Chapter 7 Turntable Tools; Chapter 8 Hard Drive Decks; Chapter 9 Computerized DJ/Remix Tools; Chapter 10 Drum Machines and Groove Boxes; Chapter 11 Mixers and Effects; Chapter 12 Video DJ Tools; Chapter 13 The Bizarre: MIT's DJ-I-Robot; Part 3 The Skills; Chapter 14 Approaching the Turntable As a Musical Instrument; Chapter 15 Mixing Skils; Chapter 16 Set Building Skills; Chapter 17 Mobile DJ Skills; Chapter 18 Extending Breaks; Chapter 19 Scratch DJ Skills;

Stephen Webber