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Publication Date: November 16, 2007

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 an audio CD to demonstrate techniques. This book is perfect for intermediate and advanced DJs looking to improve their skills in both the analogue and digital domain.

* In-depth interviews with the best DJ's for their genre offering insight, tips and techniques
* Covers the hottest new trends- DVD video mixing, effects, computerised DJ
* CD with audio samples features US National DCM champion DJ Perseus to demonstrate techniques

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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 an audio CD to demonstrate techniques. This book is perfect for intermediate and advanced DJs looking to improve their skills in both the analogue and digital domain.

* In-depth interviews with the best DJ's for their genre offering insight, tips and techniques
* Covers the hottest new trends- DVD video mixing, effects, computerised DJ
* CD with audio samples features US National DCM champion DJ Perseus to demonstrate techniques

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Product Details

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Focal Press (November 16, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0240520696
ISBN-13: 978-0240520698
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

Misleading title, not meeting expectations September 12, 2009

By John W

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The title of this book is misleading. It should have been called something along the lines of "The History of Mixing and Scratching", which is this is the real focus of this book. If you want to learn about the people who played a large role in the development of DJing this book could be for you. However, if you want to learn about the skills and techniuques of mixing and scratching this is not the right one as these topics are really just handled at a very basic level over a few pages towards the end of the book. From reading the title and the editorial review, I had expected much more. Disappointed!

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Fascinating read for everyone, complete instructions for scratching January 7, 2008

By William D. Webber

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Beerklee College of Music professor Stephen Webber writes the interesting account of scratching from the beginning to its growing acceptance as a legimate music form. Professor Webber was the first to teach turntabling as a regular course in a music college. His Stylus Symphony featuring turntables was premeired in November 2007. The book makes an important contribution to a neglected area of the history of music. But the great contribution is that it is a complete and fully illustrated text on the art of the DJ. The novice might choose to begin with Professor Webber's first book "Tutntable Technique". "DJ Skills" goes beyond the introductory elements of scratching and mixing and will prove to be an asset even to professional. Other books on this new musical form will surely be written, but this book will always be considered the definitive work.

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DJ Skills Captures the Essence and the Art of Djing November 26, 2008

By Lisa J. Nava

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I am a DJ who has been spinning, scratching and digging for over five years now and I found DJ Skillz to be the most comprehensive look into the world of DJing that has ever been printed on paperback! Not only does Webber give excellent step-by-step instructions on pulling off all the essential Scratch techniques used by DJ's today, but he also provides an extremely interesting and well written history of records and the turntable itself. Webber also interviews some of the world's biggest DJ's from BT to DJ Shadow, which provides the reader with a very intimate view into the ways different DJ's from different styles understand their artform. I especially loved the part about the Robot DJ their developing at MIT. IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO UNDERSTAND THE FULL SPECTRUM OF WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A DJ GET THIS BOOK!!!!

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Not bad...but not the best.

This book is caught between being an "instructional" book on how to DJ...and a history of the DJ, and because of that - it does neither perfectly. Read more

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know your history! the DJ Bible.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book. I mean, how can you write a comprehensive book on DJ'ing, Skratching, AND the history of records and recording combined? Read more

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final scratch, mixing skills, brain freeze, audio units, beat junkies, sliding pitch control, fader momentarily, close the fader, slip cueing, extending breaks, beat juggling, kick sample, soft synths, beat matching, finger crabs, channel fader, baby scratch, audio region, drive decks, onboard effects, shorter samples, slip mat, volume pot, tone arm, kick drum

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The Essential Guide, New York, Grandmaster Flash, The Rise of the Club, The Rise of the Hip-hop, Herbie Hancock, The Scratch, Jam Master Jay, Kid Koala, Cash Money, Bob James, Kool Herc, Rob Swift, Jazzy Jeff, San Francisco, Yoga Frog, Berklee College of Music, Afrika Bambaataa, Doc Maji, Thud Rumble, Musical Instrument Digital Interface, The Bizarre, Grandwizard Theodore, Money Mark, Paul Oakenfold

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