DJ Skills

With insights from top club, mobile, and scratch DJs, this comprehensive, up-to-date approach to DJing includes many teaching strategies developed in the Berklee College of Music prototype DJ lab to give readers access to all the tools, tips, and techniques they will need.

Stephen Webber

Part 1 The Revolution; Chapter 1 The Revolution of Records; Chapter 2 The Rise of the Radio DJ; Chapter 3 The Rise of the Club/Rave DJ; Chapter 3.1 BT's Adventures in Sonic Architecture; Chapter 3.2 Paul Oakenfold; Chapter 4 The Rise of the Hip-hop DJ; Chapter 4.1 Rob Swift: Eloquent X-ecutioner; Chapter 4.2 DJ Shadow: The Berklee Seminar; Chapter 5 The Scratch DJ Revolution; Chapter 5.1 DJ QBert's Perpetual Revolution; Chapter 5.2 Kid Koala: DJ as Storyteller; Chapter 6 The Rise of the DJ As Musician; Chapter 6.1 Herbie Hancock: The Inspiration of the DJ; Chapter 6.2 Logic's Project: Evolving from DJ into Musician; Chapter 6.3 Faust and Shortee: Two Turntablists Mix Music and Life; Chapter 6.4 On the Classical World's Radar; Part 2 The Tools; Chapter 7 Turntable Tools; Chapter 8 Hard Drive Decks; Chapter 9 Computerized DJ/Remix Tools; Chapter 10 Drum Machines and Groove Boxes; Chapter 11 Mixers and Effects; Chapter 12 Video DJ Tools; Chapter 13 The Bizarre: MIT's DJ-I-Robot; Part 3 The Skills; Chapter 14 Approaching the Turntable As a Musical Instrument; Chapter 15 Mixing Skils; Chapter 16 Set Building Skills; Chapter 17 Mobile DJ Skills; Chapter 18 Extending Breaks; Chapter 19 Scratch DJ Skills;