Members are able to provide constructive appraisal of others work. Emma’s natural enthusiasm has bought together a scratch community where people are able to bring their cuts to either a live scratch lounge or to be uploaded in the forum.
Another thing that the package provides is access to a bunch of like minded people, people that wanna learn how to scratch. I’m serious – Emma will show you all the secrets of being able to scratch including how to develop ‘deliberate practice’. Learning to do one scratch, then another then leads on to developing various combos. As each lesson is broken down into its incremental parts so is the course as a whole. It’s surprising how quickly you’re able to get it. The scratch teaching process is well thought out, linear and very easy to follow, being able to build on learnt skills. Emma ain’t no dope – she’s mad good on the cuts!! At the end of the lesson there is a question and answer slot which is great to bounce rhythms off. The lesson will then go on to develop the scratch showing users what you should be heading for in terms of sound with the understanding that each person brings their own sound and swing to each cut. Each lesson provides users with extended break downs of each scratch (i.e the chirp or flare scratches) in slow and manageable pieces.
The course is designed for people that want to use vinyl and/or controllers.
In the School of Scratch, Emma has designed a comprehensive and accessible forum for learning how to scratch and learn about all things related to scratch. Slice, 2 transforms forward, reverse crab and flare combo – 7m.2 click flare twiddle over a 2 part vocal – 9m.Baby with transforms, slices, dices and a drag – 7m.Swing flare, 1 click flare, forwards – 6m.Forwards, Transforms, Reverse, Boomerang – 3m.Boomerang, Flare, Reverse Crab, Drag – 5m.Half Boomerang > Flare > Crab > Translice – 5m.Baby > Half Chirp > Reverse Dice > Translice – 4m.
This section also includes my “Scratch Combo of the Month” series with extra breakdown info: Travelling Boomerang / Autobahn > Crabs > Transforms – 15m.3 Click Flare Twist: Twiddle + Extra Click – 12m.Crab > Dice > Release > Drag > Translice – 20m.I can’t wait to share my favourite combos that I perform in my QnA videos with you. Once you have learnt some of the basic scratch techniques, it’s time to start linking them together into “scratch combos”.