Turntablism study at the conservatory.

The new music trends are increasingly difficult to pass through the doors of the conservatives, especially when using tools that are considered unorthodox. The turntablism certainly belongs to the latter category, as teachers nurture still strong resistance to consider an object created to reproduce the sound carriers as a means to create original and articulate. Stephen Webber is a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, in the tried and attempted in 2000 to include a course on these topics in the curriculum, apparently rejected only due to budget problems. The teacher has not lost his nerve and managed to publish 'Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ', a book that puts a point, perhaps for the first time, a method of music for aspiring hip-hop. The text describes a translation of the traditional music notation to formalize the approach of turntablism, as well as a course consists of lectures and exercises including the techniques of back-spinning, beat-matching and four-finger crab scratch. Written as if you were dealing with any musical instrument, thus including details such as the position and pressure of the hand, it has become one of the bestsellers of Berklee Press, which has opened a section on these issues taken care of by Webber, entitled Tools for Djs . The stylistic virtuosity of vinyl manipulation in order to create rhythms, percussion and scratch abstract sounds were already taken into account in a course at the University of California, Berkeley ('Introductory Turntablism') in 1998, while private schools is among the famous Scratch DJ Academy in New York.