“You have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” ~ Miles Davis I’m 4 decades deep in studying the art of Scratching and when I summarize all of the ideas I’ve personally collected from it’s framers (GrandWizzard Theodore,...
If your scratches lack emotion or personality, the #1 reason for that is when you practice, you’re focusing the majority of your time and energy into drills or memorizing scratch patterns. It’s not that you lack talent. It’s that you’re not spending enough...
The information disseminated in our latest Brolic Army DJ School blog serves to help our students contemplate how to generate and maintain financial stability in their DJ careers. DJing is fun, but developing ways to secure your livelihood as a DJ makes LIFE FUN. So...
Typically when scratching, your audience is experiencing a combination of two sounds. Your scratches and the beat you’re scratching to. These aspects of the music you’re projecting to people’s ears are happening simultaneously but also separate from...
If you’re a DJ with a residency in 2022 and you’ve asked yourself, “Am I being underpaid?” then you are. What’s more, you’re not alone. Most of your colleagues have to DJ a minimum of 4 residencies per week just to cover today’s rising cost of living. Simply do the...
Beat Juggling involves the right and left hands doing two separate things at the same time. For example, your right hand may be pulling the record back to a specific spot, while your left hand is stopping the record incrementally. This is otherwise known as hand...
Over the course of 2 weeks, 15 Brolic Army DJ School students will get the chance to honor the memory of Roc Raida by showcasing their beat juggling prowess with his classic “Unassisted” routine. The challenge officially begins Sunday, May 1st at 12 p.m....
Most people think you need advanced DJ skills to learn how to recreate a classic beat juggle routine. But do you really? Before I knew about the Root Movements of Beat Juggling, I developed my skills by copying what I heard the DJs I admired do. ...
2022 Roc Raida Challenge Roc Raida The ROC RAIDA CHALLENGE is an annual competition Brolic Army DJ School launched in May of 2021 in celebration of the late-great Roc Raida’s birthday (May 17th). The competition’s aim is to find the Brolic Army student who...
May 17th marks what would have been Roc Raida’s 50th birthday. So in honor of the ultimate DJ hero, Brolic Army DJ School celebrates the life and creativity of Anthony “Roc Raida” Williams for the entire month of May with the Roc Raida Challenge!...
