Its soo hard to scratch
Does anyone have any advice to help me learn how to scratch faster…its really hard for me because i literally just started
look up some tutorials, practice till your hands hurt, then practice some more,
lots of muscle memory involved, get some old vinyl, spoken word story discs etc. they’ll help you alot with figuring out how the sound is modulated through movements, try different things, i prefered a flipped fader, like a b is ba on the fader, hamster switches are good for this, lol, it’s going to take you years,
have fun though, and play around alot, try different things, people do things in so many different ways, lol look up some video’s with my boy capital j, he still kills it daily
Generally learning to do cool stuff really well involves a lot of practice and not much else.
Practice. It won’t happen any other way and it won’t happen quickly either way.
Don’t fear! Look up our buddy Shiftee’s “Salsa School of Scratch” !
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shiftee+salsa&aq=f
Example:
Check this article on practicing from DJ Shiftee, world champ. I’ve been DJing for 2 years and scratching for probably 6 months. It truly is muscle memory. Stop reading and trying to find shortcuts, just straight up start making noise on the record. Start simple. Baby steps, baby scratches. It sounds weird but move your mouth when you scratch, verbalize the sound you want to make, it helps a lot. Also start listening to groups like X-ecutioners, Return of the DJ albums. The more you hear the sounds the more of a scratch vocabulary you’ll get.
My scratch-vocabulary is slim. All I can say is freshhhhhhhhhh and hhhhhhhhhhserf
also check out DJ Angelo’s tutorials on youtube, does a great job of really breaking things down into baby steps.
Yeah I visit a DJ school weekly.
When we learnt forward and backward-scratch we were tought to break it down in 4 stops.
Forward-scratch
- start with closed fader *
Step 1: open fader
Step 2: push record forwards
Step 3: close fader
Step 4: push record backwards
→ Go to Step 1
Backwards-scratch
- start with closed fader *
Step 1: keep fader closed/close it
Step 2: push record forwards
Step 3: open fader
Step 4: push record backwards
→ Go to Step 1
Practice that slowly at first until you really got it down without them sounding like baby scratches.
Afterwards you can start mixing forwards and backwards-scratch.
That should occupie you a few days/weeks before moving on to more difficult scratches.
Dj >q bert skratch acadamey!
You’ve already had the best tips - DJ Angelo, and Shiftee have some amazing videos on you tube.
Q-Berts DIY Volume 1 is great. Buy the DVD - you’ll be glad you did.
For slow scratches, you make a smooth motion with your arm and wrist - but for faster scratches, that movement becomes more of a vibration/stuttery type arm/hand movement.
Don’t forget - you can get twice as many sounds (making it sound twice as fast) by starting with an open fader, and doing a click in the middle to “cut” the sound into two.
You WON’T learn to scratch in a short amount of time. It takes a LOT of training, and it’s gonna make your brain hurt. There’s a whole language to it!
There’s no fast track… its just about putting in the practice time. I’m sure you already know about “how” to do a bunch of different techniques from the resources you’ve got, you just have to do it over and over and over until the movements become natural and you don’t have to think about it.
practice practice practice
Absolutely this ^ helped me loads.
Oh yeah, and practicepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepracticepractice
then practice some more
if you really want to learn to scratch.
i’m hoping your using actual turntables.
for learning anything that has to do with mixing, scratching, beatmatching.
the best way to learn is on vinyl.
i learned how to mix, and scratch on a pair of technics with some dj shadow records and some sample vinyl (its a continuous loop of sounds) cant think of what its called but i’m pretty sure it was from dj shadow lol
it takes a lot of practice and baby steps.
do it really slow, then as you get the hang of it, start scratching a little faster with farther movements etc etc.
and the crossfader is your best friend 
the best way to learn how to scratch is to practice your fundamental scratches first. i.e. the faderless scratches. babies, marches, etc.
do the movements very slow and exaggerated. the slower you practice, the better your muscle memory will be when you increase the speed.
if you find you are having hand cramps, work on your grip strength when you’re not scratching. squeeze a raquet ball or tennis ball.
if you can hang out for the new version of traktor and the S4 mkII controller, you will see there’s an ‘AutoSkratch’ button next to the ‘Sync’ button. next to the autoskratch button is a modulation knob to adjust phrasing and give you your different skratch sounds.
sorry couldnt resist.. but seriously practice, practice, practice and watch as many vids as you can. but dont listen to me because i cant skratch for shiiiittte! 
ok i kind of barely got baby scratches down but i just dont know when i should do it at the right the time so my scratches are on beat
Don’t over think it, mate. Listen to DJ’s that scratch, and pick put the scratches that you recognise.
Then copy it.
Make sure you spend more time scratching than you spend on forums.
you know how you bob your head to the music you are listening to? the idea is generally the same except, you will scratch in time with the music.
again, focus on your basics:
