Tarbell Course in Magic - Volume 025 - Card Art 3 - Manipulations

The basics of magic

Playing card magic is certainly the most extensive area of ​​magic. A deck of cards is the most versatile prop imaginable; the number of manipulations, effects, and routines that can be performed with them is enormous, and new ones are being added every day.

With a deck of cards in your pocket, you can keep any audience entertained for a long time.

In this lesson, you'll learn the basics of the ultimate discipline within card art: card manipulation . As expected, Harlan Tarbell begins with the " spin card ," long one of the best-kept secrets of card artists, and mastering it perfectly requires considerable practice. It's the most important move for making cards appear and disappear "out of thin air" within a manipulation trick. Once you've mastered the "spin card," it's not far to producing entire fancies.

Card production is followed by card coloring. You'll learn seven methods alone that allow you to color, or transform, cards. Also helpful is the unnoticed card swapping described below, known as 'filing.'

The card bubble , the card cascade , and the mouth production of cards are integral components of many manipulation moves. Naturally, this lesson also covers these topics.

52 pages

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