DJ Skills: The Essential Guide to Mixing & Scratching is the most comprehensive 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 DJs' 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 analog and digital domains.
Readership includes intermediate DJs who wish to delve deeper into certain skills and hear what some of the many high-profile professionals featured in the book have to say about these topics. People with a little bit of experience on DJ gear (bedroom DJs) and those with an interest in the art itself, not to mention music fans will find something for them in this book.
Stephen Webber has 25 years of experience as a DJ, record producer, engineer, session player, music director, studio designer, recording artist, and Emmy-Award-winning composer for film and television.
Webber has had appearances on NBC's Today Show, CNN Live, CBS Sunday Morning, and NPR's All Things Considered, and has been a writer for Mix, Remix, Electronic Musician, Audio Media, and Pro Sound News magazines. He is also the author of Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ.