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Title: Turntable Technique: The Art of the Dj by Stephen Webber ISBN: 0-87639-010-6 Publisher: Berklee Press Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I love this book!
Comment: I received a pair of turntables and a mixer for Christmas last year, and this book got me off my rear end and got me practicing. I mastered beat matching in one night.
The book is very easy to follow. The records that come along with it are great, too.
I heard the author on NPR and he was cutting Richard Nixon saying "I am not a crook," which is right off of the records that come with this book!
I also learned about Grandmaster Flash, Qbert and Craze from the interviews and history section.
Well worth the price!
Rating: 5
Summary: 12" Records Very Handy
Comment: I have probably all of the books on DJing that are out there, and this is my favorite. It comes with two 12" records that contain a wide band of white noise (like a continuous "Ahhhhh" sample) that really help you ease into skratching. I've been DJing for years now, and I still use that track.
There is also a very cool acid jazz track which has a Miles Davis muted trumpet vibe going which you can beat match with an R&B style track---I never could get the hang of beat matching until I bought this book/record set. This really made it easy.
The other technique this book helped me with better than any other source I could find is the crab scratch. The exercises break it down into very easy to follow steps, and by practicing slowly and speeding it up a little at a time, my crabs are now even and clean.
I think maybe this book throws off some people who are expecting it to read like a copy of Source magazine---it's refreshingly free of trendy lingo and the silly posturing that often accompanies the DJ scene. It also treats the turntable as a musical instrument, which some DJs still have a problem with. It helped me a lot, and like I said, I still use the records--there are a lot of good synth and spoken word samples on them as well!
Rating: 1
Summary: this other book is *much* better
Comment: Don't bother with this book; I bought it and was totally disappointed. Buy the book listed below instead, it's thick, full of information on all aspects on DJ'ing form beat-matching to equalizing to matching jeys, etc .. and it's even fun to read.
How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records by Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster
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Title: How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records by Frank Broughton, Bill Brewster ISBN: 0802139957 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Turntable Dj (Ultimate Beginner Series Dj Styles) by Ben James ISBN: 0757994547 Publisher: Warner Brothers Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The DJ Handbook by Charles Slaney ISBN: 1870775775 Publisher: PC Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title:DJ Qbert's complete DO-IT-YOURSELF, Vol. 1 Skratching ASIN: B000096JHI Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $33.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $33.98 |
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Title: Turntable Basics by Stephen Webber ISBN: 0634026127 Publisher: Berklee Press Publications Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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