How To Hold The Record When Skratching

Where should you place your record hand when skratching? Which part of your hand should touch the record? How hard should you press downward on the record? Let us help! In this vid, we talk about where to hold the record for creating different movements, and what to consider when trying different techniques.
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[@michaelenglish839]

I'm pretty new to scratching, but I've been playing drums for 23 years, starting with concert and marching band in school. So I'm very used to rudiments, which is playing rhythms or patterns with specific alternating of the playing hand. So forward forward back, forward back back, forward forward back back, and all other kinds of scratch tricks, are just like rudiments of turntableism, in my mind anyway. I'm relatively new to scratching, but my babies, chirps, transformers and most of my crabs are pretty good, and I can usually sustain 16th notes on my record hand at 90-95 BPM. I really got to get that record hand down though because I'm noticing that's where half of the rhythms being made are coming from. Before I ever touched the decks, I thought all the rhythm was happening on the crossfader hand and the record was just moving around haphazardly, boy did I have an awakening. So my question is this: I went with a controller (the DDJ-1000 SRT) and so I am scratching on jog wheels, which appear to be about the size of a 45. Do you know if the jog wheel simulates the effect of moving on the outside of a 12" record, even though you are scratching on a probably 6-7" jog wheel? Or am I literally practicing on a 45? I ask because I'm wondering, if I switched to vinyl, would moving the record on the outside of a 12" feel foreign to me? I'm hoping it is like a 45, because as a Kiko said, if you practice with a 45 you will get better muscle control. I feel like I would be able to use that outside of the record more easily. but depending on your answer to my question, perhaps the outside of the jog wheel (by way of the Serato software) simulates the movement that would be caused by moving a 12" using the outside. Loved you too contradicting each other, but then using that situation to talk about how you came to do it in your particular fashion. Definitely agree that just keep trying and don't try to force yourself to do it a certain way if it isn't comfortable. Half of the time, you stumble across a better way by making a mistake lol 👍 and sub

[@SANDMAN_66]

Thanks so much this, my main goal is to get fast stabs and forward scratches with both hands. From there I will learn other movements. BTW Rob Swift put out a video that compiles all of what he deems "root movements". Great research tool.

[@SkratchSnobs]

Thanks Moses! For those stabs, maybe watch some videos of Shortkut doing stabs and watch how he puts his hands on the fader and record, and even maybe how he stands etc. Every little thing can help! - Mike C