Scribble Scratch–A scribble is performed by tensing up the forearm muscles and moving the record back and forth with very small shaky sounding increments. The result is best described as a vibrating “scribbly” sounding effect.

Tweak Scratch–The tweak scratch is a scratch perhaps made most famous by Invisbl Skratch Piklz member Mixmaster Mike. To perform a tweak scratch, you turn the motor off on your turntable and move the platter and record back and forth manually with your fingers and thumb in whatever pattern you desire. The fader may be used to do transform sounding tweaks, but the fader doesn’t have to be used at all for this move if you choose not to use it. This scratch is best performed on long tone type samples, but can be applied to any sound. The result varies, but usually is a somewhat jerky sounding scratch. Because the turntable is turned off, each time your finger hits the record in a certain direction, it continues to go in that direction, but slows down as it does instead of returning to a constant speed after each time it is released as it does when the motor is on.

Bubble Scratch–Fist demonstrated by DJ Noize, this technique is achieved by moving the record back and forth while at the same time turning the EQ knob back and forth from minimum to maximum to get a sort of  wah-wah pedal sounding scratch effect. This move is easier to perform on a Technics SHDJ1200 than on a Vestax 05/06 Pro since the SHDJ1200’s EQ adjustment is different.

Zig-Zag Scratch–What I call a zig zag is a move that I first saw Qbert perform where you use one hand on the record, and one hand moving back and forth between the volume fader and the record to create a unique scratch effect. If you scratch with your right hand on the record the technique would go something like this:

1. right hand pulls back sound and lets go

2. left hand taps the record as it’s coming back forward to make a quick pause in the forward movement of the sound to make two distinct forward sounds instead of one.

3. left hand quickly moves and taps down the volume fader a small increment to make the volume a little
lower (or higher since you could do the same thing in reverse).

4. repeat pattern

The effect you get is a 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3… scratch of the sound while the 1,2,3 fades out a little more each time
the volume fader is tapped a little lower (the sound can be faded completely out or you can start fading
the sound in and out).

Beat Juggling–To beat juggle, you use two records with a beat on each turntable and mix them together with the crossfader to create new combinations of beats or to create new beats altogether in a “cut and paste” fashion.
Strobing is a type of beat juggling first associated with DJs Shortkut and Yoshi, but most famous demonstrated by Shortkut. In strobing you pretty much alternate back and forth between two records with a beat on each while you take turns tapping or pulling the records back slightly with your hand to manipulate the tempo on each record and keep them in sync in an alternating incremental fashion. I know that this explanation can be more than a little confusing, but an example might sound like kick, kick, snare, snare, kick, kick snare, snare, kick, kick, snare, snare…alternating between the same sounds on the two different turntables, but any combination is possible using 2 of the same records, or 2 completely different beats. By cutting back and forth you’re usually separating kicks, snares, cymbal sounds, etc., to make newsounding or doubled sounding beats.