5 SCRATCH DJ TIPS YOU NEED TO KNOW

The Baby Scratch is the most important scratch a beginner DJ will ever learn, but most beginners learn it briefly and quickly move on - without realizing how much potential this scratch has.

If you want to take all your scratches to the next level, you have to first master your baby scratch, and so in this video I’m gonna teach you 5 techniques you can use to take your baby scratch to the next level.

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So let’s first recall what a baby scratch is. A baby scratch is a faderless scratch where you push and pull the platter like this *demo with beat*

The problem is that this scratch sounds pretty monotone and boring if all you do is push and pull the platter.

Add some funk to it by also mastering the sample and playing it right on time with the music.

So instead of just pushing and pulling the platter. Let the sample play, and then implement some pull backs here and there to get the start of the sample to play right on time with the music.

Then once you get comfortable with the sample and tempo of the beat, start implementing some baby scratches.

Now let’s improve the quality of your baby scratches. So that involves adding some tonality to it. To get more control of the pitch of your sample. Disable its key lock or master tempo.

By doing this your scratches pitch will not be affected when you scratch.

Next thing to do is to focus your hands on pushing the platter at different speeds to get different pitches. So let’s push and pull the platter slowly to get low pitches, and let’s push and pull the platter fast to get high pitches.

So focus on doing different pitches of you baby scratch to get more variety in your sound.

Next thing we’re gonna do is affect the pace of how you do a baby scratch. Usually we just go back and forth like this, and that can get very boring.

So instead we’re gonna try pacing our baby scratch and we’re gonna push and pull the platter at different beat lengths.

So as you can hear, I’m not going at it, instantly. I’m steadying my scratch and focusing more on rhythm and timing.

Let’s take this even further and instead of completely pushing and pulling the platter. Let’s take it half way and stutter our scratch.

So we’re gonna push and stop and push till we reach the end of the sample, and finally we’re gonna pull the sample till we reach the start of it.

And let’s take this concept even further and physically stutter the sample by tapping on the platter. This involves making sure your sample is playing. So once it’s playing, stutter it by tapping on it.

I usually do 2 to 3 taps then I pull back. And I do this in combination with my baby scratch.

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[alexmcgrath]

I've been djing on and off professionally for 18 years. Always wanted to LEARN to scratch so I decided to look up videos on YouTube and yours popped up. I've been following them and subscribed and spending time on the techniques you show. I have always played about scratching but never got the mechanics down. I have improved more in one week than I have playing about over 18 years. GREAT VIDEOS! Thank you! T shirt looks ace to!

[awwee]

I love the way baby scratch can evolve to many cool sounds from it.

[yasminpena]

I'm a beginner DJ and really appreciate your professional videos, they are very insightful and you're such a great and humble DJ. I like the stutter baby scratch because it opens up room to experiment with the songs and amounts of scratches ! Thanks for another helpful video !

[dawin]

I love it when it's got substance instead of just being another show off scratch video. I liked the last scratch that sounds more complicated than it is. Thanks

Your style of teaching it's the best!
The baby always sounds good. Thanks by the class

[amalgamate]

Probably the platter stutter scratch. Thanks for all the videos and the humble demeanor. Makes it easier to watch your videos

[juzzonmorris]

That was the illest baby scratch tutorial demo I've heard! That last scratch- the. Platter tap was my favorite. It has a kind of 3D surround sound aspect to it. Masterful bro👊.Many thanks for this tutorial. It gives me hope that I can do this.

[MrJFunkSanchez]

Adding variation to your scratches sounds more organic. Really like the platter stutter scratch...something different, easy and cool to play at a live gig. Thanks man...you're rocking it! Just had dinner with Phil Morse at MobileBeat Las Vegas. Super cool dude, I can see why you joined the DDJT family. Hats off to you!

[qkm]

Great vid, simple and easy to follow... Now let me practice my baby scratch....😎

[brodiegraham]

I liked the baby scratch because it is an easy scratch for me to Learn as a beginner

[michaelderobles]

Never failed me to learn new things. Thank you again Dj Carlo

[semii]

My favourite is technique 5, I really like the scratch sound and the easy way how to do it.

[XEinstein]

My favorite technique was definitely the expert way in which you folded that t-shirt at 1:15

[bighavic]

Master Master Master this goes for all the beginning stages from scratching to blending. Mastering basics always makes you become better at everything else that follows.

[daveb]

I want that shirt brother!

I liked your addition of tapping on the platter to give the baby some more style.

Also, making sure Master Tempo is off! Can’t believe I never realized that!! Doh!!

Awesome tutorial as usual! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[djmaestro]

If I've ever learned scratching, it will be because of your videos, so I have to salute you for that brother.

[lentzansar]

Swirl Scratch will always be the most magical technique for me! Bless up

[yumyumrazon]

you should make a lot of videos like this!!!!

[az-qzyg]

Technique 4 stuttered baby scratch. I like it coz it's not boring at and i think it's cool to hear.

[Nnyo]

Thank you so much! This video has got me so excited to start scratching. Honestly, I started DJing a year ago after watching your videos and I instantly wanted to scratch, but never really found a good video, but your one has helped give me that first step. Thank you so much