You know what's going on Chris Ramsey here welcome back
Hope you like that little intro put together today I'm going to talk about my five
Favorite color changes that I love using whether it's in performance, or whether it's just for me
It's just visual eye candy that I just love doing as a move monkey myself
I'm fascinated with sleight of hand and I'm fascinated with color changes
There are so many out there literally hundreds if not thousands of ways to change a card into another card and today
I'm just going to share with you my top five we're going to talk about the angles
we're going to talk about the
Difficulty, and we're going to talk about where you guys can learn them before I do that though
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But have further ado let's get into my top five favorite color changes no.5
Now this one is really difficult. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to sugarcoat it
It's a very very hard slice this light is actually called the Groove electric switch by Doc
Doherty and it is extremely difficult like it requires a lot of sleight of hand angle
Sensitivity is very high you first must control the card in a certain way
Then I like to incorporate something called the techno-Pop by Jack carpenter
So you put them together you get for the groove electric switch with the techno Pop techno pop Groove electric switch
I just love the way that sounds so putting them together is a really cool thing the pop out Cardigan is from Jack Carpenter and
This specific change switch is from Doc docherty now it can be used also as a face down switch
So it happens invisibly or it can be used as a visible color change both of which are extremely hard and extremely
Angly and not something I would normally do for a spectator
But again, these are my top five favorite color changes that they love doing whether it's for camera, or whether it's just for myself
So I hope you enjoyed number five
Number four is something that I came up with this is something that I've been playing with for a long time a couple years with
Four or five years it is the slip shift now I release this on Dan and Dave and if you want to check that out
You can hit up art of magic where the download is there my beard is way shorter than it is today
But that was one of my really one of my first
Contributions my second contribution to the magic industry it's something very cool because you can do you can use it as a multiple change which?
Is pretty slick and you can use it as a control as well there are different
Applications for this I've also come up with a weird way of doing it while spinning your hand this again
Difficulty level is extreme probably the hardest
Sleight of hand moves that I know and literally in the world. I don't know if any else who can do this properly?
including myself
sometimes so it's just one of those things that if you want to push yourself further and if you want to just practice something that's
Completely abstract and extremely difficult to get the muscle memory in your hands build up. This is a great thing to practice also
I actually came up with this while doing a flourish
So there was a cut that I was learning and I came up with the sort of Pinky movement here to the flourish
Explored that a little bit and came up with this color change now again
You can use it to change one card or two or three or four or even sides so it's a really fun thing to do
It's a bit of a knack, okay
It's a lot of a knack, but it's extremely fun to do that is slip shift my number four
number three is
definitely
amazing because it is a
Visual color change now what I mean by a visual color change is that you can have color changes that are covered for an instant?
Even if it's just for an instant, it's a hidden color change
But a color change that happens instantly without the card leaving your site
That's a really really cool thing to do especially
If it doesn't make a sound and your hands aren't moving in funny ways
So this one really incorporates all of those this is C3 by no, Jima
So you put out a DVd where you can learn different routines, so I've learned the oil and water routine
Which is really cool because it has it's one of the only oil and waters that I know of which has a visual
Factor in it so it's not just about dealing cards, but you actually see the moment the card separate from red to black
you can also use this as
A card routine where the selected card gets lost in the deck a card appears between the two it is not
selection and then the wave changes into their selection
One of the really really cool things about this as well
Is that you're left kind of clean so after you do the change you're into a steward gordon double and it looks?
Extremely clean now again this can use the multiple color change so it can change from one to two to three to four
cards and one of the really really cool things is that it barely makes it sound it doesn't make a sound really it's
Soundless its angle proof. There's barely any finger movement
So it's really hard for the mind to reconstruct how this color change was done level of difficulty
I would say it first you're going to get it the first thing you do you're gonna be like oh, this is easy
But what's difficult about this is not the actual move it's the consistency
So to be able to do this on the spot on the first try every time
That's where it's going to take a lot of practice so at first you're going to look at it. You're like
Oh, I got it. It's simple right you're going to try it again you be like
Oh, I messed that one up a little bit
So this is one of those things that you've got to keep at in order to get consistent with to be
Consistent takes a lot of practice so I'd say the difficulty level starts low, but then end high it's a weird thing
But I love this color change so much
Number two is a change that is pretty unorthodox. Not something. I would normally use, but I love the mechanics of it
This is Twitch by Erickson Mattis Erickson Madison's a cartas this was put out
I think probably like four or five years ago on theory 11 as a download and
It's just a really really cool nakki weird way of doing color change and when you look at the mechanics
You're thinking to yourself
Well, how does this work and I guarantee you if you put the time in it happens like a little twitch
It's like a little twitch happening bam, and it's visual color change extremely fast
There's a bit of a sound
But it doesn't really matter you can hide that with a flick if you like kind of like the snap change Eric goes into teaching
This and he also teaches something really cool
Which is a torn restored corner, so you care off the corner of the card and with a flick or a twitch bam?
It instantly restores in front of your eyes you can hand that out so again not something
I would use on a day-To-day basis, but this isn't about that
This is about my favorite color changes
So the ones that are most satisfying to me the ones that I love
Just doing for myself for the camera for friends or most the color changes. I've seen
That magicians do aren't
Performed in real in the like the real world like for spectators most of them are performed between friends and Magicians not
Part of what I love about sleight of hand magic. Is that it's just like kind of like self
Gratifying sleight of hands those which there's nothing wrong with that, and I love sharing my ideas with other Magicians
And this is one of those that I just love performing to other magicians because it's something original
they've probably never seen before that is number two twitch by Eric somatic and my number one favorite color change and
Again this list is subject to change if something else comes up
But right now my favorite color change is the rel change by Mike brewer
Mike brewer is incredibly talented with sleight of hand super funny guys well his download available on vanishing Inc, and by the way
I'll leave all these links below so you guys can check them out for yourself and support the creators instead of you know
youtubing some shit version of it this color change is really cool because
It's again one of those visual color changes that has minimum hand movement and no sound it happens in an instant
And when done I'll let you know the angles are very sensitive, but once you learn this and you practice enough
And I use a camera a lot to practice this move you will
Understand the Angles and once you understand the angles you'll be confident enough to perform this so I actually performed
This to people it gets great reactions because it's one of those things again
That's unexplainable your left clean it happened boom in an instant
They see the card and in a blink of an eye transforms into another card, and there's nothing going on
There's no crazy hand movement. There's no weird gestures
It's just you see the card here bam, and it's another card and it's instant
So it kind of looks like a gimmick right?
I love getting clips Magic that looks like it should be a
Gimmick another cool thing about this is that it can be used as a hidden color change which is also a cool option so you
Can go from having a card showing it cleanly showing the back of the card
And then showing the face and now the face has changed again
And if you like you can even have the back change so you can have the face change
They look at the back they look at the face boom the backs different now the face is different
It's a completely different card and with some select little sleight of hand you can make it look
Completely invisible and clean so well change by Mike brewer my number one favorite color change to use
For so many reasons it just looks so satisfying it's satisfying to do when you nail it. You're just like oh
Yes
So guys that is my top 5 list of my top 5 favorite color changes
I'm really curious to know what color change you've been working on and what is your favorite color change let me know in the comments
below what color seems that you've been working on that you've been trying to perfect and what color change do you actually use on a
date
And maybe what color changes you?
Not use it all but you really love so let me know below pardon me if I can't teach these
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