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- Hi, I'm Daniel Madison.
Thanks for being here.
Thank you so much for choosing
to spend your time with me.
You could be doing better things,
although I don't think so, not today.
This is an exciting video,
I've been looking forward
to making this one.
This is a tutorial, a
tutorial, a tutorial.
This is me teaching one of
my slight of hand techniques.
It's a colour change,
which basically means
one playing card switches
for another instantly,
seemingly impossible.
This colour change is called Glitch.
This is what it looks like.
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If you don't know who I
am, I am Daniel Madison.
I am a creator, performer,
and teacher of magic,
slight of hand, close up deceptions,
specifically with playing cards,
typically my very own playing cards.
And I know I haven't done enough
free tutorials on this channel.
I promise you I will, starting today.
I'm gonna aim for at least one a week.
This one is called Glitch.
It has a back story, it has
a good, nice tale to it,
and there's a reason why I chose to teach
Glitch today on this channel,
and I was inspired by a package
that got delivered to me.
Now, I do deck reviews on my channel.
I ask people to send me at least
two decks of playing cards.
One that I can review on my channel,
the other one that I can give away
to somebody watching these videos.
Anyway, when the packages arrive,
at Electric Picture House,
I go there, I pick them up,
I put them aside.
I don't like to open them straight away,
I like to do that bit on film.
I like to keep them as
genuine as possible.
One of those packages, however,
was from a friend of mine
called Bret Pendlebury.
Is that how you say it?
Pendlebury.
Pendlebury.
He's a cool guy, he's a cool magician
who's just gotten out on YouTube.
I'll leave a link to him
in this video description.
I noticed his name on the envelope
so I couldn't leave this one aside.
I watched a video on his YouTube channel
talking about how he was sending
these playing cards to somebody.
Turns out that somebody was me,
and inside that envelope, I believe
I know what's inside that envelope.
So although this isn't
a deck review video,
we are gonna open that on camera
and I'm gonna show you what's inside
and then it will make
more sense why I decided
to teach Glitch as a
tutorial on my channel.
This is the envelope.
Let's open it up right now.
Bret, I do, I struggle with
words, you know this about me.
Bret Pen, I struggle with
words, Bret Pendlebury.
Maybe that's an accent thing.
Bret Pendlebury.
You did mention in one of your videos
that you're sending some playing cards out
to somebody, turns out that person was me.
This isn't really, this
could be a deck review
but I thought it'd be more interesting
to turn whatever's inside this package
into the Glitch tutorial,
which is on its way in a few minutes.
First we need to open these,
'cause I'm going to
actually teach Glitch with
the playing cards that
are inside this envelope.
Let's open it right now.
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So this says, "Yo Madison!
"Thank you for these.
"I have had my fun with them.
"Now it's your turn.
"hashtag use your cards."
Man, Bret, you don't know how happy
I am right now, honestly.
So inside here there's an original
deck of Scarlet Rounders.
Scarlet Rounders, wow.
Open and used, whoa,
they are certainly used.
A deck of Madison Players,
which leads us nicely into this tutorial.
Now these are the Madison Players.
These are the very reason that I wanted
to make this video today.
Thank you so much, Bret,
for sending these to me,
we'll get to these in a second.
I just wanna mention and talk a little bit
about the Madison Rounders,
the Scarlet edition.
I've not had any of these playing cards
for quite a few years now.
These were, when I joined
up with Ellusionists,
I think it was 2012, I
wanna say 13, 12, 13,
the first thing that I wanted to do
when I joined up with Ellusionists
was make my second deck of playing cards.
The Players were the first,
the second were the Madison Rounders.
These are the Scarlet Rounders,
they're red, very limited edition version.
We did only make, I think
2,000 of these red ones
and they were very hard to get ahold of.
So the black deck was
released as the standard,
alongside that we released the red deck
as a limited, kind of rare deck,
which is a strange thing and a subject
all of its own to talk about.
We actually decided to
create red decks rather than
allowing playing cards to become rare
on their own merit, which is a weird thing
that I'm sure I'll talk about
a lot more in a different video.
But, it is so nice to
have a full deck of these
back and I can tell, man, just how much
you've used these because these are,
these are a bit sticky,
man, I won't lie to you.
It's great to have these,
man, it's been so long.
I'm not actually gonna use these ones,
these are gonna go
straight into my personal,
private collection, which
is very small right now.
So, it's actually the Madison Players,
these were my first ever
deck of playing cards.
I worked with theory11 for quite some time
between the years 2007 to about 2012,
worked on a whole bunch of projects,
and they really did give me my platform.
They showed me to the
world, the magic industry,
and the people in the deceptive practises
didn't really know who I was
and what I was about until theory11.
JB picked me up and showed me to the world
and it took off from there.
So I owe JB so much
and I know he knows it.
So, theory11 produced these,
my first ever deck of playing cards.
I saw David Blaine's playing cards,
I saw that his face
was the King of Spades,
and all I ever wanted was the same thing.
I wanted my face as the King of Diamonds.
I didn't wanna be the King of Hearts
'cause I found that a little bit arrogant
to put yourself as the King of Hearts.
The diamond means a lot to me,
very symbolic, but also just the letter D.
K, D, King of Diamonds, D, Daniel.
And, also, I don't know
if you notice it's been
in all my videos, I
always favour the right.
I always seem to manage to look just
to the right because this is my good side,
this is my not so good side,
and the King of Diamonds
is looking that way, too,
so it kinda looked like me anyway.
I got into it with an incredible artist
who I'm still good
friends with, Jeff Lianza,
he and I worked together for a long time,
building and creating not only the deck,
but Jeff's responsible for
the old Madison, this logo.
He basically owns that logo as his.
And without that logo,
a lot of things wouldn't have happened,
so he's another person I owe so much to.
And really, it's one of
the first of its kind,
nobody was doing custom decks,
especially branded, like
personally branded playing cards.
Dan and Dave had just done
the Smoke and Mirrors,
and I was working on this at the same time
so nobody knew which way it was gonna go.
Obviously David Blaine did too,
but nobody knew which way it was gonna go
so it was a really interesting
experiment, in a sense.
So we got 11,000 of these decks made,
and they took four days to sell out.
Back then, that was unheard of.
It was an incredible experience
and I think it was this deck
along with my Dangerous project
that really kind of propelled me
into the magic stratosphere.
What?
Into the magic world and
the deceptive practises.
Because there were only
11,000 of these decks made,
I never really got any,
I got like a handful.
And when I discovered
that Bret was gonna be
sending me these, it
started making me think,
I started reminiscing about
the good times I'd had with theory11.
One of the things that I put out with them
was Glitch, and I don't think I was
ready to release it at the time,
it wasn't practised enough,
it wasn't developed enough.
I've certainly played with it a lot
since it was first created,
so I wanted to refresh the lesson
and give it to you guys free
here on my YouTube channel,
and what better way to do that
than with the actual Madison Players.
Let's get to the good stuff.
I am Daniel Madison.
This is Glitch.
So what you're gonna
do is start by finding
two playing cards that you like
and putting them to
the bottom of the deck.
In my case, I'm gonna use
the King of Diamonds
and the Ace of Spades.
They go right on the bottom of the deck.
You're gonna hold the deck from above
like this, a very standard,
kind of typical grip.
There's not too much going on
aside from this one adjustment.
Finger three needs to
be over by the corner
by the index, the outer
index of the actual deck.
This is very important,
you'll see why in a second.
Otherwise, the deck is held
in a fairly standard grip,
not too much going on, not just yet.
This other hand is gonna
be holding the deck, too,
so you're holding it very normally,
in a very standard kind of way.
Nothing strange, nothing
seemingly strange,
not just yet anyway.
Finger one is gonna add
a little bit of pressure
so that you can bow,
so that you can bevel,
so that you can bend the entire deck.
This allows you to riffle off
two playing cards with your thumb.
Finger one of your free hand is gonna be
touching the face of the bottom card
and the deck is just gripped
around in a very standard grip.
So when you bend the deck you can
riffle two playing cards with your thumb.
One, two, and just hold a
break between those two cards.
So that's my set up.
Not that this needs a set up
because this is a very simple
colour change, but still.
So, from here, one, two, hold a break.
And it's very, it doesn't matter if it's
a big, small, tiny break,
it doesn't really make a difference,
that's the only preparation
that you're gonna need.
Here is what happens, I'm just gonna
do the mechanics of this in slow motion.
So the thumb makes contact
with the bottom two cards
and the grip on these two cards
is now entirely between
finger three of the deck hand
and the thumb of the free hand.
Once you've got that grip
and it feels comfortable,
finger one is gonna grip these two cards
on the side here and they're
gonna begin their rotations.
So the King of Diamonds
is now gonna rotate once,
see how finger one goes all
the way around the back,
and presses the card so it spins over.
Finger two is already
working its way around
the other side of these two
cards to do the same thing,
to continue the rotation into the clip,
so doing that again, slowly.
Start with the grip,
finger one goes round,
pushes around the back.
Finger two makes its way to the front,
and now I can clip those cards on the back
of finger two with fingers one
and three of the deck hand.
Sounds very complicated, and it might
look a little bit
complicated to begin with,
but I assure you it's not once
you start practising  this.
So the grip is here, one spin, two spin,
notice the position of the deck hand,
fingers one and three are
pointed away from the deck,
ready to receive the two cards
into position right here.
So I'll do that again at full speed.
And we are good to go with it
to make the actual colour
change at this point.
So I'll do that again.
Grip is here, finger one
pushes, finger two helps,
clip the cards in place
and we are ready to go.
So once those two playing cards are spun
all the way around and
have found that position
clipped between fingers
one, two, and three,
look at the exact position that I'm in.
This is the ideal position
for the actual change itself.
Finger three plays the most
important part in this change.
It's completely covering the index,
that is the right position.
Feeling where it is, knowing
that it's over that index,
I know that I'm good to
go for the colour change.
Our finger one holds everything in place
on the back of finger two.
More importantly, finger
one is getting left behind
to clip the Ace of Spades in
position against the deck,
so the Ace of Spades isn't actually
going to appear to have moved position
as the king makes its way behind the deck.
So we'll do that in slow motion
to show you exactly what happens.
Once you're clipped here,
all that's left to do
at this point, fingers one and two,
really they do stay in
place, they stay still.
Finger three is going to drag
the top card away from the ace like so.
Finger one holds the
ace in place like this,
and as the king clears the Ace of Spades,
it slides all the way down here,
and it's kind of left
sticking out at a weird angle.
Now this is from a basic
change, which looks like this.
So the basic change leaves the card
kinda hanging out, kinda sticking out.
You don't really need
to clean up just yet.
The clean up, we'll look
at clean ups in a second.
But right now we'll go
over the move itself,
the whole move from start to finish.
So grip here, spin, clip in position,
finger three drags the
king away from the ace
underneath to the back here, out of sight.
And you'll notice just
like the snap change
for everybody who knows the snap change,
the Ace of Spades kinda
hides this out of the way.
It is a little bit sight angle sensitive,
we're gonna cover how to
hide that in a minute,
'cause you can't do this at 360 degrees.
Once again, spin around the back.
King is pulled back, finger three.
Do that slowly from the front
so you can see what's going on here.
Here, and we're left with the ace.
Let's take a look at how
we clean that mess up.
A clean up is something that I've
never really worried about with this,
especially when you do this for a camera
because you're left in
a position where maybe
you could do a different trick where you
drop the card and you can show the deck.
Otherwise, the clean up
itself is quite intuitive,
you'll know what to do
when you're practising ,
when you practise this.
So, spin, the card changes here,
now you're in this position,
I can now hand everything
over to my free hand.
Finger three is going
to force that ace to go,
or that king to go underneath
the deck as it goes here,
and I'm left with the ace in this hand.
So if we did that at speed,
this is what that looks like.
So, king, that was
terrible, but bear with me.
The card is now sticking out here,
I'm gonna hand these over to this hand
and then come away here.
This is the subject of deception,
this is what people are
gonna be looking at,
not necessarily the deck.
Once again, at the
completely exposed angle,
change, card is here,
this goes into my hand,
as we show the changed card.
Now, it is entirely possible
to have that clean up
happen more or less instantly, but for me,
the hand looks so unnatural
that I avoid doing it
'cause there's never really a reason
to clean up with one hand there and then.
Normally that's when you practise it,
you'll figure out that it's possible.
I advise against it because
of the hand just looks so strange.
I'll show you exactly what I mean.
So the change happens, we're left here,
now the deck can slowly be moved down
on top of that bottom card,
and the bottom card can be
lined up underneath the deck,
all in one hand, and then you can
take the card away and hold like this.
I advise against that just
because it looks weird.
This hand looks strange.
Nonetheless, I thought I
would mention that to you.
One of the most important
things, or useful things,
or should I say, one of the things I enjoy
most about this change is
once you've done the change,
this change itself is actually designed
to do a clean up on a surface, on a table,
but when we were teaching that I remember
it being said that it's
so much more practical
and visually appealing to just show
the change and that's
the end of the story.
This, for me, is one of
the most important parts,
so this clean up is, you do the change,
you put everything down, and
then your hands are empty.
This is what it looks like.
So that's basically
the clean up that I use
when I'm doing this near
a table or near a surface.
I really like the idea of
having an instant clean up,
and putting things down as soon
as you have shown your deception.
Now, there's no real reason
why you have to do this,
I just like the idea of once that change
has happened, everything is put down.
Now you don't have to spread the deck,
you don't have to run
away from the deception,
but here's in detail,
what I love about this
and why I think it's the
version you should do
if you're gonna do this colour change.
So the mechanics of it,
everything happens now
and if you notice I'm tilting everything
down kinda towards the table.
The card that's gonna change
is close to the table.
Now I do the change here
and as soon as I get
to the position, I can basically
just put everything down,
so I can drop this card,
the changed card, and then I can put
the deck down on top, and
the ace on top of this,
and then spread the deck.
The ace comes along for
the journey, for the ride.
And now the ace, the
changed card, is over here,
out of the way whilst the
card, the King of Diamonds,
is actually on this side,
underneath the deck.
Not that that's a big deal
or makes too much of a difference.
I do think the visuals
of performing Glitch
on a table do go a lot further
than just doing this in the hand.
So like this and then spreading it,
running without even being chased.
I just think there's something really nice
about being able to put everything down
as soon as the change has happened.
It's no big deal but for those people
who kind of wanna run away from it
and wanna take everything a step further
without doing this on a table,
if you want to do it just here,
you could actually cut
the King of Diamonds
away so that it's not even
anywhere near the deck.
I don't think that's necessary whatsoever,
this is just a fun little colour change.
So in a very brief explanation,
the change happens here,
everything goes down,
the change card is here.
I can put the ace down
on top of the spread
and then just spread
everything and the ace is now
away from the king, which is right here.
So Bret Pendlebury, thanks for sending
me these playing cards.
I have been looking out for some of these,
and I'm so glad I managed to get ahold
of them along with the Scarlet Rounders.
Those are now going into
my personal collection,
but thanks for inspiring
me to make this video,
to teach something that I have
taught over at theory11.com.
You can still pick up Glitch,
you can see the old me
performing and teaching Glitch,
along with Danny Garcia,
Dan White, I think.
I went over to Vegas to film that,
there's another story I wanna tell
in a different video from that same time.
I'll save it for a different time.
If you've having trouble
with Glitch, with learning,
with practise, with
performance, I'm right here.
I'm trying to spend as much
time as I can on YouTube,
so any comments are left on these videos,
I will be paying attention
and I will try to respond
to every single person.
I will try and make my
tutorials a weekly thing,
I will try, can't make promises.
Seeing that I'm going away
this Monday for five days,
so I might not be able to post too much,
and I can't tell you where I'm going.
I am taking my cameras with me, though.
If you perform Glitch,
or any of my techniques
for that matter, on the social networks
make sure you tag me,
I'd love to check out and
see what you're up to.
Thanks for being here,
I'm Daniel Madison and I
will see you next time.
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