Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ Book

Learn to play the turntable like your favorite DJs and create your own style! This essential guidebook teaches you to play the turntable as a musical instrument. Using this first-ever turntable method, techniques and tricks can be mastered quickly and effectively.

Step-by-step instructions on:

• Scratching
• Beat Matching
• Mixing
• The Transformer
• The Crab
• Crossfader Technique
• Cutting
• Stabs

Book includes:

• Photographs and musical exercises
• Tips on how the pros set up their gear for scratch mixing
• A history of DJing and hip-hop culture

Featuring interviews with top DJs including:

• DJ Swamp (Beck)
• MixMaster Mike (Beastie Boys)
• DJ QBert (Invisibl Skratch Picklz)
• DJ Kuttin Kandi (5th Platoon/Anomolies)
• DJ A-Trak (Teenage DMC/ITF World Champion)
• DJ Craze (three-time DMC World Champion)

BUZZ

"Webber brings you all the elemental breaks, grooves, sound effects and narration that makes instructional records such a wonderfully goofy medium....a collector's item for the crates and those documenting DJ history and culture."
—XLR8R

"The first musical method book for aspiring hip-hop DJ's."
—The New York Times

"Whether you're a fresh-faced beginner with no clue how to mount a headshell, or a seasoned veteran looking to expand your repetoire, there's definitely something to be learned here."
—IGN.com

" A great tool for beginning and advanced spinners."
—Source magazine

"Takes a serious approach to treating turntablism and DJing as a true musical art form. Thisis definitely a good place to start if you have recently picked up a pair of decks and a mixer."
—Remix magazine

"Succeeds as both a primer for playing the turntable as a musical instrument and as an introduction to music theory for DJs with little formal music education."
—Gig magazine

"I've prayed for the day a book like this would come out, and it's finally here."
—QBert, Invisibl Skratch Picklz