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How to Learn Card Magic. Just add practice
Here are my suggestions about what I would suggest.
1. Overhand shuffle and mechanics grip. This may appear easy but it is about learning to do everything consistently.it is no good holding the cards differently for each sleight or flourish you perform, so start with mastering the basics.
2. Under cut and false undercut. Again it is about consistency and from these moves you will start learning more.
3. Controlling cards from top to bottom and bottom to top using under cut. A natural progression fro
The true and false under cut. This gives yo confidence handling the card and you start learning some basic concepts of sleight of hand.
4. DL. This is a fantastic sleight that is in my opinion one of the best for all beginners to learn. It opens the door to numerous effects and makes you more aware of presentation.
You are now on your way and adding a couple of forces to your arsenal is a great idea. Then you have a nice group of skills that will work together and the necessary skills to perform numerous effects and start looking at putting a couple of effects into a performance/routine. By looking foe effects to learn you will naturally come across new sleights to learn. Here are a few more to move onto,
Glide,
Hindu Shuffle and force
Riffle shuffle etc.
You will find Erdenase and Royal Road to Card Magic great for learning these sleights and other at a latter date. If you can only afford one I would say go for Royal Road to Card Magic.
To learn new effects I would initially use Encyclopedia of card tricks and Expert at the Card Table. The latter is a must if you want to develop your skills quickly.
There are Dvd's to go with Erdenase and Royal Road To Card magic. These can be expensive and recieved mixed reviews. If you want a few effects up your sleeve and would like to use DVD to learn the new direct download from magicworld.co.uk looks a great value buy.
Nic
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Permalink Reply by brook on -
Magic Tricks Include :
Impossible Card Warp: Learn to conjure up an amazing illusion where you fold two cards and slide one into the center of the other. Now happens a totally amazing transformation to one of the cards which looks absolutely baffling to your audience Includes Video Demo !!!
Card Through The Window : The magician asks a spectator to select a card from the pack and then replace it. After giving the cards a thorough shuffle the magician attempts to guess the spectators card and appears to be unsuccessful. Then after a few attempts he throws the cards at a window in a fit of rage and upon closer inspection the spectators card is now stuck to the other side of the window!
Card Vanish And Production :This is the daddy of cool card sleights where you vanish and re appear cards out of thin air. The move needs plenty of practice to perfect but your patience will be well rewarded as this move when performed well, gets an amazing reaction from your audience
Cup Levitation : Make a cup visibly float, right in front of your spectators eyes. Visually amazing stunt and simple to perform. Includes Video Demo !!!
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Permalink Reply by Andy Poole on
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I would recommend learning a few sleights and not just look at learning a set of tricks.
Learning card control, false cuts, controlling cards to the top and bottom of the deck
the DL
various shuffles
Starting with these gives you confidence handling cards and with this small amount of sleights you will be amazed how many tricks you can do. Buying a video that show 5 tricks means you can learn five tricks then you need to buy something else. Using a book like royal road to card magic is best. If you dont like books the video of the book is great, but you should still use the book with the video.
Andy
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