How to improve my skills??!?!

[DJ Crumble]

Alright everyone, now I'm new to this website but I really hope I can find the advice i'm looking for. As of now I am doing the bare minimum with my equipment. I use two digital turntables. So I guess what I am getting at is what would be a good way to improve scratching and just turntablism in general. I practice but at a certain point I just don't know ho to go at it. Any help is much appreciated!!! Thanks

 

[CMWAT]

the basics for improving scratching is listening and practicing a lot.or you could go to an academy if you really want to be a pro>>>



http://www.scratch.com/?utm_source=...1&jsid=26256&gclid=CK2jn6WXlq0CFcNo4AoddQEDmA

 

[DJ PAUL]

also youtube has literally thousands of styles and how to's

Paul

 

[Jon Tuck]

call a mobile DJ company and learn the basic ropes it will only help in your plan to conquer.

 

[DJSAZON1]

Practice is always the main thing but you can be a helper to a Dj and learn too.

 

[DJ Jynxx]

Practice practice practice.... but I get the feeling you are at a dead end when it comes to scratching. I have been there too. What helped me were some instructional videos from Q-Bert (arguably the best turntablist/scratch artist of all time).

Here are some of the ones I found:
Chirp Scratching (you probably know, but still...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwj5-9AD10U

Crab Scratching (a bit more advanced, the basis for most of the advanced tricks)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_6fVOEitTE

Transforming (yet another basis for more advanced moves)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmVhTFChkWI

Phasers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsX4x4dyUT8

Dicing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASjJCgI3cCs

Waves (basic scratch technique):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN8eaNGOUpA

ZigZags:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XMRNAwNjUY


On the zig-zags video, if you look over to the right, there are a ton of "related" vids that are in this series that teach a crapload of different scratch techniques.
This is how I learned most of my scratches, but practicing and finding your own patterns is what its all about. These teach you the basic techniques to do a scratch, but it's up to you to own it and make it yours. Play with them, combine them, do them silly-style. Whatever you do, do it the way YOU want to do it, and I promise, you will love the way it turns out.
If you can't do some of these, don't worry... nothing worth doing is easy. Just keep at it, don't give up, and eventually you will be sitting back going "Damn, did I just do that??" and you will all of a sudden "get it".

Hope this stuff helps!

 

[DJ Jynxx]

And here is a playlist with 18 of those vids. Wish I had seen this sooner lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgqQMG-Nosc&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PLBA81A06F36C7E72C