Execution trumps technique

Execution trumps technique. I’ve always felt that. In a quest to help my New School students understand how to articulate the scratches I’ve taught them for their upcoming class final, I spent the afternoon examining the approach Cash Money, Aladdin, and Q-Bert all took to performing “Transformer“ scratches on “Rock The Bells“ (LL Cool J). The differences between these 3 dudes couldn’t be clearer. One’s lyrical, the other is funky and the third is technical at “Transforming“ . You can literally close y