Two Turntables and a Microphone

Are you dying to learn how to "baby scratch" or "scribble"? Do you long
to learn such techniques as looping, crabbing, and
flaring? If so, run right down to the Berklee School of Music in Boston
and enroll in the first-of-a-kind class "Turntable Techniques".

Taught by Berklee Professor and classical guitarist Steven Webber, the
class is the first in the nation dedicated to the red-hot hip-hop music-making
skill known a DJing, which uses the venerable turntable as a distinctive
musical instrument.

The course has proven so popular that there is a long waiting list to
enter. the textbook, ”Turntable Technique: The Art of the DJ,” (written
by Webber, of course) sells out at the bookstore as quickly as they can
restock it, far beyond the 50 students enrolled in the course.

”It’s really an exciting time right now for DJ education,” Webber
says. ”It’s kind of where the guitar was 30 or 40 years ago in
that more and more kids are buying turntables now. Like the guitar, it
will take time, but eventually people will see that this is also an important
instrument."

from the Boston Globe