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- What's up guys, and welcome back to Tutorial Monday,
or Magic Monday, or welcome to this tutorial.
I still have yet to figure out a name for this thing.
I think I'll just go with Magic Monday or something.
It sounds so cheese though, doesn't it?
Today I'm gonna bring you something
that I've been doing for a long time actually.
This is a color change.
Originally it was the paintbrush change,
which was done like this,
and then people started playing around with it
and it was done this way.
Alex Pandrea has some great work on it
with I think he calls it the Mona Lisa change,
where it changes and then changes back.
If you're not familiar with that,
you should definitely go check out his work on it.
It's incredible.
But I'm gonna give you just basically my handling
on this sort of paintbrush change.
It's not exactly a paintbrush change anymore,
but it's a visual color change,
and I use this all the time, actually.
This is my go to color change when performing.
It's kind of like a double take, like,
"Huh, huh? What, huh?"
And people seem to really like it,
so if you can nail it, it should not make a sound
and it should very, very visual,
so we will definitely cover all the bases on that.
I also wanna take a second just before
we jump into the tutorial, please.
Today marks the first day of Mental Awareness Week
in the United States.
I just wanna have a quick word
with all my subscribers and viewers.
I have a platform, so I feel the need to talk
about things that are important sometimes,
because or else I'm just wasting this space,
and although magic is important to me and important to you,
there are some underlying things that are more important,
one of which is in the magic community,
there has been a lot of suicide, and you know,
it just comes with being alone,
spending time with your cards and stuff,
and maybe things aren't going your way or that type of thing
and I just wanna tell all you guys, reach out to somebody.
Reach out to somebody if you're having problems,
if you feel sad or depressed,
or if you're not feeling sad or depressed,
just call a friend that you haven't talked to in a while
and just hit 'em up, be like,
"Hey man, just hope everything's all right,
and just letting you know I'm here for you."
I've struggled with depression in the past.
You know, just putting myself out there.
I've had problems with depression,
and it's, for those of you who have been through depression
know that it's not something you can just turn on and off.
It takes a lot of time and conscious effort
to get out of depression,
and then you might fall back into it,
but knowing that and knowing what depression is
helped me sort of navigate through it,
and with the help of friends and family of course,
so I just wanted to have a quick word with you guys
and let you know that, you know,
there is support in the magic community.
YouTube and the internet can be a mean place sometimes,
so just reach out somebody if you're feeling down.
That's it.
All right, back into the tutorial.
Right now we're gonna learn the modified paintbrush change.
I'm gonna give you guys all the work on it,
everything that I've been doing with it,
so I hope you enjoy.
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So anyways, this is the last video I'm posting
before I leave to Italy.
Super excited, and I'll keep you guys posted on that,
but for now, let's get straight into the paintbrush,
the praintbrush change.
By the way, I'm using the Red Wheels playing cards.
I've already talked about these
in my top five favorite cards.
Just thought I'd mention it again.
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So sexy.
The way they feel, how sexy.
Prerequisites for this, there aren't very many,
but there is one, which is the double lift.
Yes, the DL, the double turnover,
however you like to call it.
The double lift that I choose to use
on a normal basis is the master push off.
I learned that from Andi Gladwin,
so you can go and check him out if you like.
In the action of simply just pushing off a card,
so it looks like I'm pushing off one
when I'm actually pushing off two cards.
If you want, another really good double lift
is the Stuart Gordon Double.
You're gonna have to get your finger strength up here.
Xavier Spade has a really good tutorial
on this on Magic Stream, but if not,
I'm sure you can browse the internet.
It really just takes like, finger strength and patience,
so once you get that double,
you wanna hold a break there, okay?
So you hold a break.
This hand's gonna come in.
You're gonna grab those two cards, okay,
and the way that I do this is,
I'll put my ring finger down here in the corner,
my thumb up here and these two fingers here,
and as I turn over,
my thumb is gonna glide towards my ring finger,
and that keeps the cards squared up
in the action of turning them over,
so as I'm here, I'm keeping pressure.
It should look like you're jut turning over one card.
You know, that's what it should look like
if you're turning over one card,
and a double lift should look like that.
So, a quick tip for the double lift
is that any time you're gonna do a double,
it should look exactly like what it would look like
if you were turning over one card.
So, once you have that double lift,
so you can use a push off or whatever,
push off is good but you do have to readjust.
You'll have to pinch the cards up here.
Try not to make them split.
You're gonna pinch up here with minimal hand movement,
and it's gonna come over here,
and you're gonna sort of just, this is what I do.
This is my little subtlety.
I hold it here with the middle finger just on that corner.
Just kind of keep it there,
and don't move around too much 'cause it'll break.
So if you use a Stuart Gordon, this is lot easier
'cause you get right into it and you're right there.
Once again, we'll do it from this side.
I'm gonna do the Stuart Gordon, and then this corner
underneath your middle finger is held just there, okay?
It's gonna take some practice for that not to split,
but there's a little subtlety that I do
which helps it out a lot,
so once I'm here and I hold it here,
my thumb immediately goes here, okay?
So I'm covering this whole line.
This whole line is now covered with my thumb
so that if it does break off to the side like this,
the thumb will cover it,
so it gives it a little bit more cover.
That's a nice little subtlety that I like to use with that.
To make the change happen.
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So once you're here, boom, you pinch it there.
You can show it if you're confident.
Your thumb comes over here.
I like to create and sort of mentally
condition their mind for this movement.
So just once or twice, and you're holding it here
and you're not moving this hand whatsoever.
Your hand is like a rock right now,
and you're just gonna slide it up and down,
and when you're ready to make the move,
these cards go underneath, okay?
You're going to split a little bit,
just enough for you to do that, okay?
So once you're here, you come in, split,
and then what you're gonna do after you've done this motion
is split it up and then move the card forward.
My buddy Xavier Spade has a nice little subtlety
where you move the card upwards
and it kind of like, makes this card flip over fast,
so you're here, he likes to go boom,
move it upwards, and then back.
I prefer the nice little visual eye candy
that you get when you nail it perfectly,
so when you're here.
There is a little tiny sound,
but it shouldn't be a big sound.
Should be just barely any sound at all.
Pressure on the side of the deck when I decide to do that
will automatically flip that card there, okay?
So it's always very important that they think
this is one card 'cause that's how the illusion is created.
The deck sort of rests on these cards here,
all right, sort of rests there.
I'm not even holding it really.
I'm just kind of like, letting the weight
of the deck push down a little bit, and then you're here.
So that was in slow motion.
We'll do that again.
Hold it here for a second.
Grab the top.
Your thumb covers all of that.
There are different types of double lifts.
I won't go into too many different types.
I might do a video on that in the future,
but one of the double lifts that I started doing
was a strike double.
I don't know if this a strike double or whatever it's called
but you would come in with your index
between your pinky and ring finger,
and straight, bam, I would grab two cards, right?
So no break, nothing.
I would come in here, grab two cards, turn them over,
and that was how I got into that.
I stopped doing that because it's a little bit weird
'cause you're like, "Eh, okay."
So, maybe in performance I'll use that sometimes,
but for the most part, this one here, just so nice.
So again, boom.
Pinch the top corner here.
Your thumb covers everything.
These fingers here are going to
grip it underneath that corner,
and you wanna make sure again that the card doesn't split.
You're holding it very still,
so you can just show that as one.
Come in, one, two, three.
It changes from the 10 of clubs to the 10 of spades,
the worst change ever.
If you wanna use this in a routine, it's very simple.
All you have to do is control the cards
at the top by any means necessary.
Let's say they look at the nine of hearts, right?
I lose it into the deck.
I can do now a double undercut as I'm talking
and say, "I believe your card is on the top of the deck,"
and they go, "No," and then you go,
"Okay, well, how about now?"
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- So all you have to do is, they have a card selected.
They look at it.
Lose it somewhere in the deck,
and then abracadabra, it jumps to the top.
Oh wait, that's not your card, really?
How about now?
Is that your card? It is?
Good. Okay, did my job.
So that's it.
All right guys, thank you so much for tuning in.
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One more quick little note about the paintbrush change.
Do practice it obviously.
Practice your double lift.
Whatever double lift you're comfortable with,
just practice it and make sure
it's really imperceptible to people,
and if you're struggling with it, you know,
learn something a little more advanced
and start learning that and start playing around with it,
because once you get comfortable with it,
you'll be really happy with yourself
and really proud of yourself,
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before you go and upload it online.
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