Merry Christmas!

I recently made this free beat for the community Christmas Looper #4 (release to be announced v. soon) and recorded a little scratch inspiration video for you.

Hope you enjoy it!

If you are reading via email click here to watch the video

Preview & Download Studio Scratches Christmas Looper #4 Beat

Download Studio Scratches Christmas Looper #4 Beat

Thank you for all the support in 2011. To everyone that has bought beat packs, USB drives, left comments, emailed me and contributed, I appreciate every single one of you!

I’m looking forward to launching my School of Scratch Inspiration Club, early next year. Hope to see you there!

Have a scratchy Christmas and 2012.

Happy Scratching!

- Short-E

Fat Booty Bass Breaks Volume 1 is here!

Featuring 26 beats ranging from 70 bpm all the way up to fast electro breaking speed and all with super fat bass! Plenty to practice your fast and slow cuts to!

Available for instant download from the beats store.

You can preview all the tracks here:

If you are reading by email you can listen to all the tracks here.

Have a great festive season!

Happy Scratching!

- Short-E

Friend of Studio Scratches Gold Voltron recently hooked himself up with a couple of our Ultimate Beats for Scratch Practice Super Deluxe USB Edition packages.

He liked them so much that he took some pics:

TR 808

MPC 2000XL

Instagram users can seem more images of GV’s amazing beat machines and vinyl digging adventures by searching for “goldvoltron” in the app.

You can get your own drive loaded with all the Studio Scratches Beats here:

Ultimate Beats for Scratch Practice Super Deluxe USB Drives

Happy Scratching!

- Short-E

Alright, so you’ve been interacting with the Studio Scratches site for some time now. You practice with the Free Beat Friday QnA videos, and have downloaded the free beats whenever they are released.

Is there any more?

Yes!!! I make more beats than I physically have time to make scratch videos for.

I present to you weekly Beats For Scratch Practice letter priced at $9.95 a month:

What do you get from subscribing to this letter?

• One exclusive instrumental beat to inspire your scratch practice, delivered direct to your inbox every single week.
• These beats are not available anywhere else, not even here on the Studio Scratches main site or beat store.
• It is exclusive and purely for subscribers.
• It allows me to give you fresh beats on a more regular basis.

I hope you’ll give it a chance for a month. It’s less than a cup of coffee a week, and helps support all of the free resources I produce that you have already seen on this site.

You might even find some bonus videos and other cool stuff in there.

The first beat is ready and you get this delivered instantly on subscribing.

Click here to view the details and subscribe

For those people asking for a PayPal option you can use this button:

Subscribe with PayPal

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Honest Notes

You do not need to subscribe to this newsletter and use these specific beats in order to get better at scratching. This site will offer Free Beat Friday as usual, and you can use any existing beats freely available on this site and across the web.

However, I offer these weekly beats as a way to give you fresh material to scratch to and save you some time looking for new beats, and I hope if you do subscribe, you’ll find them inspiring your scratch practice.

I charge money for it to 1) help me develop more free resources for Studio Scratches and 2) help pay for my living expenses.

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Happy Scratching!

Short-E

I am very pleased to present to you 2 new products to assist your scratch practice.

The first is a high value beat pack containing all of the beat packs ever made by Studio Scratches but at half the price of the individual packs!

The second is the first ever physical Studio Scratches product, featuring some vintage sampler and drum machine USB sticks to store all your beats, music projects, and files. I’m stoked on my MPC 2000XL drive!

So, without further ado, here they are:

1 – Ultimate Beats for Scratch Practice – Deluxe Edition

(Best Value)

• Instant download - Get scratching straight away!
• Over 400 beats for scratch practice - Get inspired easily!
• 16 different beat packs - a variety of styles and tempos for true scratch mastery!

Beat Packs Included:

• QnA Scratch Sessions Vol.1 - QnA Training Audio - Train with DJ Short-E!
• Hidden Video Bonuses - watch back and learn!

Incredible Value - Individual packs are worth $139 in total

Save $’s (almost 50%) over buying beat packs individually!

Cost = $70

Click on the button below to purchase:

2 – Ultimate Beats for Scratch Practice – Super Deluxe USB Edition

(For the collectors and fans)

• The full Ultimate Beats for Scratch Practice Deluxe Edition via instant download as described above
• PLUS - MPC 2000XL, SP1200 or TR-808 USB Flash Drive shipped direct to you* - store / transport your beats & scratch music projects
• Choose your flava!
• Limited edition - own a piece of history!
• Cost = $125  including shipping

MPC 2000XL edition available now:

SP1200 edition available now:

TR808 edition ships 11/1/2011 Preorder now:

Beats are available for instant download on pre-order

Happy Scratching!

- Short-E

Studio Scratches Beat Store (hosted by Bandcamp) now features a shiny new shopping cart system. This makes multiple purchases much, much easier.

Here is a walkthrough of what the new cart looks like. I add 2 products to the cart to show you:

More detail images:

Add to cart button option now available!!!

See what's in ya cart!!!

So now, if you are wanting to buy a couple of beat packs, you can do so in one go, rather than having to purchase and checkout for each one individually!

Hoorah we hear you cry! To get you started here is a breakdown of our top beatpacks…

Top 5 Studio Scratches Beatpacks by popularity:

1 - 85 BPM Hip Hop Instrumental Beats

Great for slow funky cuts and practicing precision.

2 - Beats For Scratch Practice Volume 3

A mixture of electronic, funk and hip hop. Some of my all time favourite Studio Scratches beats are in this pack!

3 - 90 BPM Hip Hop Instrumental Beats

A classic tempo and super high value with 99 beats!

4 - 95 BPM Hip Hop Instrumental Beats

Slightly faster for progressing scratch students.

5 – Jointly: Beats For Scratch Practice Volume 1, Beats For Scratch Practice Volume 2, Free Beat Friday #1 – 20 Beat Bundle (with 11 bonus videos!!!)

Something for everyone in these packs!
The Free Beat Friday pack is one of my favourites because of all the video downloads!

You probably noticed the video contains a product that hasn’t been released yet – “Fat Booty Bass Breaks Volume 1″ as you can see its almost ready for release! Stay tuned!

Happy Scratching!

- Short-E

Dj Shotgun & Dj Marvel Scratching over Studio Scratches Beat #43 – “Get Goin’” taken from Beats For Scratch Practice Vol. 3 available for instant download here.

Nice scratching fellas!

Click on the image below for 50 hot scratch beats!

You may have seen the recent Bristol DJs innoFADER Video I posted.

The “Innobeat” instrumental on the video by Le Mart is great to cut to and so here it is in full for your scratching pleasure!

INNOBEAT by LE MART

You can also pick up an innoFADER here

Happy Scratching!

- Short-E

It is absolutely ESSENTIAL to have good instrumental beats and grooves to scratch over. That is how you learn about rhythm, groove and funk! Bad beats = bad scratching!

We’ve taken the hard work away and provide you with top quality loops in a variety of tempos and styles so you can get scratching right away!

Here is a preview of Beats For Scratch Practice Volume 3 for those of you that haven’t already heard it.

Available from the Studio Scratches Store

Click here to download and get scratching instantly!

If you use any of these beats in your videos then let us know and we may even feature them here!

Happy Scratching!

- Short-E

Good friend of Studio Scratches “GoldVoltron” dropped this beat on us.

Get your scratch on!

Ahs To The Z by goldvoltron

Check out GV here he makes great beats ALL the time!

Happy Scratching!

- Short-E