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Encyclopedia > Cutting (music)

In hip hop music, cutting is a disc jockey technique, originated by DJ Grandmaster Flash, which is "manually queueing up duplicate copies of the same record in order to play the same passage, cutting back and forth between them." (AMG) This is necessary to isolate and extend breaks into breakbeats. Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... Album cover of The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash DJ Grandmaster Flash (born Joseph Saddler on January 1, 1958 in Barbados) is a hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. ... A break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time being a break from the main parts of the song or piece. ...



Also a term from the days of vinyl records. To "cut a record" was to record a record because the grooves in the orginial acetate were physically cut according to the music.

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Cutting (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (211 words)
Cutting is a disc jockey technique used to loop records and is popular in hip hop music.
The term "cutting" is also sometimes used by scratch DJs to refer to the release scratch, where a sound effect is played on beat by releasing the record at the beginning of the sound.
To "cut a record" was to record a record because the grooves in the orginial acetate were physically cut according to the music.
Tips for Cutting Good Music (973 words)
Very few judges would purposely mark your skater down if they dislike the music, but when the music is familiar and/or appeals to them, they are more likely to understand the skater's interpretation of that music.
Don't expect a skater to interpret music which is inappropriate to his/her style of skating.
Music is a great memory tool (can you really say the alphabet without singing the song???), and if the skater can associate each musical phrase with particular program elements it will make it a lot easier for them to avoid "getting lost" during a competition.
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