
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.


Once you have learnt some of the basic scratch techniques, it’s time to start linking them together into “scratch combos”.
