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- Yo, what is going on guys, Chris Ramsay here,
and welcome back.
Got a new ring light, that's why this thing's going on,
that's why these things are in my eyes.
See that cool little ring?
That's why I got it.
Welcome back to the channel, today we're gonna be
teaching you a sick little color change.
In that sort of little snippet I put together at
the beginning of the video, is a color change found
in the book Royal Road to Card Magic.
Royal Road is probably the absolute
beginner card magic book.
And because it's beginner, that does not mean it's
like for idiots.
It is really impactful, really strong magic.
So most of what you're gonna read in here is
very practical, is something you're going to be able
to use all the time, can be done, there's a lot of
things that are sort of self-working which is really great.
Your basic magic knowledge, this is where it's gonna start.
So if you're just getting into magic, or if you're
interested, or wondering what books you should buy,
you definitely 100,000 percent should start with this book.
Royal Road to Card Magic, as suggested by a lot of
the people below, is like, it'll also give you a taste
for how to read magic, and I think this is, because the
effects are so simple and direct, is probably the book
that's gonna be the easiest to read for you,
and I know a lot of you struggle with reading magic books
'cause they're not always so easy to read.
But this one is made really simple, so that you guys
can follow along so, I'll leave the link below where
you guys can check out this book, it's pretty cheap.
I got this version which is like some weird
knockoff version a while ago.
You can even see the pixels, so I'll find a link
for something similar to this,
but this is basically the book.
I mean it touches on everything from obviously false
shuffling, to controlling, to stealing, to peaking,
to full routines.
But all card magic, this is all card magic.
So if you're looking for string, ring, ball, whatever
magic, that'll be in another episode sometime
in the future, but right now if you're looking to
start your card magic journey, this is it.
So many good things in this thing.
There are things that people use like, and they don't even
wanna tell other people where they found it.
This is where it is.
A lot of really strong, impactful magic that you can,
I mean once you master I guess like five to 10 routines
out of this book, I mean straight up, you can go out
and perform, and get crazy, insane reactions.
And really focus on the presentation which is where it's at.
So you don't have to worry about like all these
crazy gimmicks, or like really crazy sleights.
This has got it all, and the methods are so overlapping
each other that, you know, they're just impossible to
figure out for the spectator so, do check this out.
Will not disappoint, the real one, whatever.
Let's get into it.
Alright so start off, this is basically just called
the changing card, which is found in Royal Road.
One of the simplest ways to change a playing card,
is impromptu, and it is a way to do this,
in a sort of clever way, so, basically, you want to
injog sort of this top card here, which is not going to
be their selection, and then, as you go to grab it,
it changes into their selection, which is a very magical
thing to the spectator.
That like, it just happens so quickly.
Here's the secret.
I actually have two cards, right.
So, the way this works is, first and foremost,
you're going to want to control their card second
from the top.
Now a real easy way of doing that is something called
the Marlo tilt.
This tilt move is basically where you take
the top card, and you create this break in the back
that you hold with your pinky.
So you have this gap back here, and this gap,
from the back looks really horrible, but from the front
is invisible.
And so what it's going to look like, as I do this,
it's going to look like the card's going into
the middle when it's actually going into that gap.
There's so many subtleties on this.
Years, and years, and years, people have added and
taken away things from the tilt.
Just a quick subtlety is, when you're here,
you take this card, and you sort of just use the corner
to like jab out some here.
So from the front it looks like you're just trying
to fit it in somewhere in the middle, and then you just
slide it here, right.
And so now it's resting on like the meat of my hand,
and my pinkie, and I can just slide it in,
and square everything up.
Now they think it's in the middle of the deck,
they think it's completely lost.
Another way obviously of getting a selected card
second from the top is using a cover pass,
which you can find in The Expert at the Card Table,
you can check that out.
Very easy, once you're here and the card is on top,
what they suggest to do here is take your right hand,
so hold this deck basically in your left hand
or your dealer hand, kind of just like I'm holding here
with all the fingers on the sides.
Actually it's curled up behind it.
Your going to take your right hand or your
dominant hand, and just sort of pull out with your thumb,
the top card, right.
Now as you do that, your index is already going to be
positioned here, because basically your fingernail
is going to get under that card right there, okay.
So that way you can push it out.
And that's gonna create the change.
Now try not to leave a space here.
Try not to have that card here.
Try to be as flush as possible because if you use your
fingernail and you practice, it can be straight up flush,
like it can be seamless and you could still get it,
you know what I mean?
So really try and do that.
If your cards are warped or old at all,
you might see that like if you push them together
they might be like spaced or something, which is not
recommended, you might want to get maybe just a
deck that works a little better.
To do that I just, I'll leave a few links below
where you can check out playing cards.
This change happens in the action of messing up,
so you say here, this is your card, they say no,
and as you go to grab it boom, the change happens, right.
And the reason for that is that there's a motivation
for the change happening, as well as a bit of a misdirection
whereas if I just had it, kind of like this,
and kind of snapped my fingers and changed it,
it is cool, and if you do it fast enough,
it can be completely invisible I think, if you just
kinda, right?
The only thing is this is kinda like a nice way of
creating that moment where, the moment isn't focused here,
the moment is sort of like a non-moment, where you're like
oh this wasn't your car?
Oh interesting.
And that sort of creates this non-moment in the
spectator's mind which really messes with them,
versus just you know visually changing it.
But visually changing it's cool, it looks good on camera,
you know for your Instagram something if you just wanna bam.
That was pretty terrible, but you get the idea.
As you go to pinch it at the exact same time,
I'm pushing it out and I'm grabbing it.
So, when it happens quickly, it kinda looks like,
like that right.
So that way, if you end up pushing the cards out further,
your covered because your hand's here pulling
it out already.
Whereas if you do this and all of the sudden like,
it's like the card grew, right?
So by doing this as well, you kinda catch it
in that, in that process which helps.
In the context of a trick it might look like this
where they select a card, and they have a look at it.
As they do that, I'm gonna go ahead and get my tilt, right.
This here which we just talked about.
And I take the card back, I go ahead and place it
into the middle, and I lose it somewhere in the middle.
At this point if you like, you can, you know,
give it a false shuffle, a false riffle, a false cut
if you like.
You might want to, you know, here you go, mix it up.
It's somewhere in there.
I don't think it's necessary, but if you want to
add that go ahead.
You then turn the deck around, you say okay,
this is not your card actually is right here.
And they say, no, it isn't.
In that case you could just be like oh I wasn't done,
here you go, let me just grab the card for you,
the Ace of Clubs, your card.
Now I'm holding two cards at this point, correct?
So here's something you wanna do.
You can either just put it directly onto the deck,
which is completely acceptable.
I like to turn the deck around, and display
that single card.
If you like you can add a little fancy twirl,
I'm not gonna go ahead and teach that, but there are
a lot of things you can do at that point.
You can even Change the card, I don't know.
Feel free to jazz and have fun with it,
but basically that's a little color change that you guys
can now add to your arsenal of trickery and foolery.
Well alright guys, thanks for tuning in.
I'm so glad that you guys watched up to this point.
It means a lot to me and, if you learned,
if this is something you just learned,
let me know below what you thought of it.
Let me know below what you thought of the format.
I really like this format actually where
I get to teach you something very simple and basic,
and then you guys kinda have to source out the rest.
This is a really, really good way to get a lot of people
who are really interested in magic, outside of the
YouTube realm, because you could only learn so much
through YouTube, because you know the teachers
here on YouTube, the good ones are limited.
And you won't always get the proper sourcing,
and the proper crediting, and that type of thing so,
by doing this, it really puts it in your hands,
and all I'm doing is sort of getting your feet wet
with sort of, you know, starting your appetite in
this magic thing, and then giving you the direction
where you can go off on your own and learn as much
as you want, and soak it all in like a sponge.
Hopefully this works out for you,
and hopefully this is something you can use
If you're not gonna buy the book, or if you're not gonna
pursue magic.
Maybe this is just like a one-off thing that you're
gonna show your kids, and in that case, I think this
is a perfect move for you so, glad you enjoyed that,
glad you enjoyed the little routine and,
I hope, I hope to see you on the next video.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
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Peace out.
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