"DJ Skills: The Essential Guide to Mixing and 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. It provides in-depth interviews with the best DJ's for their genre offering insight, tips and techniques. It covers the hottest new trends - DVD video mixing, effects, computerised DJ. It includes CD with audio samples that features US National DCM champion DJ Perseus to demonstrate techniques.
