ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |134 pages
The Revolution
chapter |10 pages
The Revolution of Records
chapter |5 pages
The Rise of the Radio DJ
chapter |28 pages
The Rise of the Club/Rave DJ
chapter |11 pages
BT's Adventures in Sonic Architecture
chapter |6 pages
Paul Oakenfold
chapter |28 pages
The Rise of the Hip-hop DJ
chapter |7 pages
Rob Swift: Eloquent X-ecutioner
chapter |8 pages
DJ Shadow: The Berklee Seminar
chapter |24 pages
The Scratch DJ Revolution
chapter |9 pages
DJ QBert's Perpetual Revolution
chapter |11 pages
Kid Koala: DJ as Storyteller
chapter |37 pages
The Rise of the DJ As Musician
chapter |5 pages
Herbie Hancock: The Inspiration of the DJ
chapter |9 pages
Logic's Project: Evolving from DJ into Musician
chapter |9 pages
Faust and Shortee: Two Turntablists Mix Music and Life
chapter |11 pages
On the Classical World's Radar
part |67 pages
The Tools
chapter |8 pages
Turntable Tools
chapter |6 pages
Hard Drive Decks
chapter |21 pages
Computerized DJ/Remix Tools
chapter |5 pages
Drum Machines and Groove Boxes
chapter |9 pages
Mixers and Effects
chapter |6 pages
Video DJ Tools
chapter |10 pages
The Bizarre: MIT's DJ-I-Robot
part |75 pages
The Skills