Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #318349 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

Fascinating read for everyone, complete instructions for scratching
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.

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? once I picked up this book and started going through it I realized, Yes, this is it! I LOVE this book! the first really together book on DJing/history/Skratch I know. The original! all the way back to EDISON! ROOTS!
Whether you are a dance DJ, Skratch DJ, or are a friend or loved one of someone who is, I would recommend this book to you. Interview with Qbert! and Herbie Hancock! and BT(my hero)! Great for casual reading. You can open it up to any section and find cool stuff.
-DJ BigBangRiddimRula

DJ Skills Captures the Essence and the Art of Djing

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!!!!