Awesome! Thank you! I really like the super slow motion helps a lot doesn't it? Luckily my house mate does crabs hamster style or I wouldn't be able to do that. 😌
I have to say this is definitively the best breakdown of this technique I've seen. It's still infuriatingly difficult for me as a maybe 'intermediate' level turntablist, but it *really* helped it click in my head. Thanks a ton!
Great tutorial! I do them with 3 fingers open fader if I’m using it as a pattern. But I commonly find myself crabbing a pullback as a transition into another pattern.
Good stuff! Me too. I don't tend to do them on their own too much but love doing them like that. Or even on the forward, but it's much harder to catch them that way for some reason.
I'm glad I found this channel 👍🏾👍🏾 I lean towards the open fader crab style, and sometimes I'm clean, sometimes not so clean with it. The tip about aiming your fingertips towards the bottom of the fader cap is gold, I can't wait to get home from work and try it out. I strike my fingers towards the middle, and that might be why my crabs are inconsistent. Cheers! 🍻
Wow never thought of starting open fader crab but now that you say it I think I, usually open fader anyhow. For example ahh yea in the yea I’ll be open and start the crab.
Thanks so much Si. Really like the tutorial. This is going to help so much. Im at that point just trying them closed as you said. Coming along ok i think. Cheers again my friend👍👍👌
Glad it was helpful! The timing is the key, nice and slow and defined. I still practice the movement walking around town coz I'm a fidgeter. People must think I'm a weirdo.
What kind of cut in lag do you use? I'm really finding it hard to work out what I find best, I've been learning in the world of closed fader scratches and I've had my cut in lag to 0 or 1 on a pioneer S7 and was fine but I'm finding it too shallow for crabs and open fader cuts like 2 clicks as the audio is only cut really quickly and almost unable to be heard.
I was definitely one of those beginners that wanted to learn crabs asap, thankfully I didn't learn them until after I had the basics down. Nowadays I don't really use them, but when I do, I like pairing them with flaires. I do a 3 finger crab and scratch hamster.
Shameful to admit but I am one of those that learnt to crab scratch proficiently before i had a good grasp on the basics, and while it was good to know something flashy, i definitely relied on it too much and basically hit a brick wall with learning new scratches and patterns. I'm forcing myself now to start from square one to get everything else down
After a year of scratching I've tried to learn this on and off and every time it's the same result, can do it closed..1...2...3 1...2....3 then trying it from an open or in a flare I get the 1 or the 2...3 or just a 0 😂 it's so frustrating. It's like my fingers and hand position is so comfortable hitting the other scratches then adding the crab in a little freestyle and no sounds are even made just kills me! I'd like to know how people learnt it... How long it had taken... Did they get the same problem as me.. give us your own personal feedback learning this scratch
Hey man. I've written a video about this I'm working on but it roughly goes something like; baby, scribble, Drags, forwards, backwards, Marches, transformers,Chirps, tears, flares, 2 clicker, OG flares etc... I mean there loads and lots of overlap tbh
@@SiHargreaves Thanks for the quick reply. I like your scratch style . It's funky and you work with the beat and not overpower it. You use a simple generic beat and make it flow great. That is the mark of thoughtful scratching in my opinion. keep up the good work.
Another excellent video! I have come to see Crabs as just the method to achieving quick fader movements in service of speeding up other scratches, which is why I have been spending most of my time focusing on starting / ending with them open. On their own with a drag, is basically as impressive as a transform. It can sound nice here and there but otherwise boring!
I agree actually. They're more of a spice scratch than a fundamental. That's why I don't practice them too much. Everything has it's place though I guess. I found it quite a challenge to only do crabs at the end, that's why the freestyle is so short lol.
It is! It's solid as heck. I got it from my mate, who got it from Etsy somewhere. I dunno which seller, as I got it second hand. It's super solid though.
Im with ya on the regular style my friend. Hamster style doesnt feel rite for me, cause my thumb doesnt like being the enforcer, my fingers do mostly when pulling off different scratches. Definitely would love to get this one down, I usually do this with two fingers, cause I can twiddle my fingers pretty fast, so thats my version... Lol... Its a work in progress rite, rite... Lol.. bahahahaha... Great video homeslice, definitely helpful, & appreciated, Respex.... 🔥💯👍🙏🎶🌎
lol 'the enforcer' I like that. I used to just get a credit card and crab on that all day while I was on the train and that. It's a good way to hear if you're nailing those clicks or not. No reason you can't get some practice in when you're away from your decks!
@@SiHargreaves lol... Yea for sure, thats a really good idea, I think I'll check that out. Ive been working on Boomerangs, & 1-Click Flares, & also 2-Click Flares, & im definitely making progress with the Boomerang, & 1-Click Flares, but the 2-Click Flare I can only pull off slowly rite now, when it comes out clean, & its aggrevating, cause I can't really hear the whole cool effect of the 2-Click Flare due to that very problem... Lol. I've been kinda playing around with the Joe Cooley, as well. Always been captivated by the crab skratch though, something about it, just gets me man. I love the repetitive clicks, & the cool repetitive sound it creates, while doing them forwards & backwards. But, man, when im jamming out to an instrumental, or Loop Beat, etc..., I seem to mess it up for some reason. Lol. How long you been scratching for? Very nice crabbing man, caught my attention, when scrolling thru my RU-vid videos tonite, glad I clicked on your channel brotha, its nice to meet you, im Jeff, til next time homeslice, Wicked Respex.... 💯🔥👍🙏🎶🌎
Ah cool man. Long time now I started in 2004. Shoukd probably be better than I am by now after that amount of time. Deffo didnt practice as much as I could have over the last 5 years
U forgot to say, that crab must be done with RELAXED hand and fingers (because u can't do it with tense hand) and it's the main trick. That's why your guide is good (thanx!) but not the best %)
