How to Beatbox

Transcript Yo what up yo! My name is Kid Lucky and I’m Jay Flo.(Kid Lucky): Yo we did this little something for you right here. A little jam thing like this. So like that’s a little jam session that we just did right there. Now Jamming is very very cool that you can do with …

Transcript “How to beatbox: Vocal Scratch: With the vocal scratching like, first and for most, I could vocal scratching into my work as bridges, In a B Abb-be That’s call, I call that is vocal Scratch. The note is come down, the way we do that is wow sound. The wow sounds are like a,e,i,o,u. …

Transcript “If you’re going to improvise, improvise, man, like, improvise, like, don’t get caught out there like just doing the same beats over and over and over again, y’know, just like, go different places man, like *beatboxing* We are sound artists, y’know what i mean, we are vocal sound artists, we are able to create …

Transcript “If you wanna try getting better at beatboxing one of the things I recommend is definitely learning the sounds perfectly. So you might have a kick a high hat in the snare but if you learn how to do them clean and nice, and you know, then you can start experimenting because you are …

Transcript “Kid Lucky: Sup, I’m Kid Lucky, president and founder of Beatboxer Entertainment. Jflo: And I’m Jflo, I’m the 2011 american beatbox champion. Kid Lucky: We are beatboxers here in new york and, y’know, been teaching y’all a little bit about what the human beatbox is all about, but, a little bit about myself, i …

Transcript What’s really great about the history of beatboxing is that all the practitioners are here, most of them are here now. They started it. Which is like unlike a lot like other genres. People forget that Hip Hop itself is only since the late seventies. The person that I’d say started beatboxing is Doug …

Transcript What makes an amazing beatboxer is really you. And what you want to do – it’s an art. I mean, at the end of the day, it’s your art. You know what I mean? It’s what you want to do. That’s how you become amazing – by being you, by being your own artist, …

Transcript So like, you know the snare, the inward K snare is a, it’s a sound if that is used for definitely like when you’re breathing in, so like us a lot of beat boxers don’t like to hit (sigh), you know what I’m saying? is a little idea and note the T and the …

Transcript We’re talking about the click roll and like, the tongue click is really easy. It’s like.. (tongue clicking). So it’s just like basically like, you take the tip of your tongue, you know, putting it to the roof of your mouth, you know what I mean, and sucking in air, pulling it down. And …

Transcript “You’ve gotta remember that when beatboxing you want to breath so you weren’t to have circular breathing where you’re like not every sound is outward. Now if you have any trouble learning inward sound like the inward K or the zipper or anything in general thats inward you can always just breath and make …

Transcript The hi hat is a very common sound used by a lot of beatboxers because it represents a major, you know, thing in the drumset and into the instrumentals and to the beats. The way you want to do a hi hat is the letter T. Now what I mean by this is you …

Transcript It’s very hard, it’s a lot of breathing in, breathing out, with a bass sound, like I said, it’s rarely used because it’s so hard to do, you know what I mean, that is also like if you’re going to do it, then yeah, yeah it’s a very tough sound to do. I can’t …

Instructions Step 1: Using your lips Know that a lip roll involves vibrating your lips by blowing air out through loose lips. Step 2: Using your tongue Use your tongue to cut off the resulting sound to create new sounds. Incorporate the sound with a kick. Transcript So a lip roll or I call it, …

Transcript A sound I like to do a lot would be the zipper. Uh, now, the zipper, which one of those, you gotta pretend that you have a straw, and it’s a really big straw. And you’re drinking a drink, so you wanna make that lip, um, sort of, gap in your mouth. And what …

Transcript The Sound Effects, the different part and definitely something to have fun with, or like an alarm like, and you know the Air horn, you know you can just have fun with the sounds. One sound that I like is the Duck noise which is like the K Snare. You do the K like, …

Transcript So now you’ve got the airhorn I don’t know which like a lot of hip hop djs tend to do nowadays when the do like (horn sound) and they go tddd dj. So I call it the airhorn. Sometimes its overused but I just like it because its a good, its a cool sound …

Transcript “How to Beatbox: Winning a Beatbox Battle Yo. How you win a beatbox battle? There’s a lot that goes into that. You know what I mean? Like you there’s and and just knowing where your who the crowd is, what they’re looking for, what do they like. You know, what can you get away …

Transcript “The hardstyle, is a kind of electronic music where the beats are really fast and it consists mostly of kicks and lots of bass, and it sounds crazy sometimes, but it’s really really fast and consists of a lot of kicks and bass and, y’know, compared to other music like dubstep or house music, …

Transcript “Okay, so, if you want to beatbox hardstyle, one way to do it, is always to half the bass and the kicks and you have to be really fast. So you want to do it like this, with this bass, the lip bass *demonstrating lip bass* and the kick *demonstrating kick* or you can …

Transcript Of course one of the major things is technicality and one way to be technical is to sort of do a drum pattern beats which you know can switch a lot and you gonna show your skill, so I’ll give you an example like (beating). So this is more advanced because it’s very technical …

Transcript So if you wanna get serious with beat-boxing, you want to start competing and you think you got the skills and you practice enough to want to compete and you want to qualify for beatbox championships. You can do that. Obviously, here in America, there’s different rules apply, depends where you are and where …

Transcript So what is Dubstep Beatbox? Dubstep Beatbox mainly is that sort of electronic music but it has more of a Hip Hop feel to it. It’s a little bit… It feels like it’s slower but technically is, like, fast but you’re slowing down the actual drum patterns. And what you’re doing between the just …

Transcript So if you want to beatbox dubstep, you got to perfect the base, which is the main concept of dubstep because it’s the reason why people like dubstep because of the base of what people call the drop. So you want to do beats that sound a little something like this. Your spacing the …

Transcript “Techno beatbox, or just electronic music, you know, or beat box is the music you want to dance to whether it’s house or techno, trance or whatever. But, you know, you’ve got that sort of, you know, electronic feel to it. It’s simple kick-kick-kick-kick, because you want people to dance like [makes beats with …

Transcript Now, really what beatboxing is is making hip hop beats with your mouth. Now, what is the difference like vocal percussion or scatting? Vocal percussion is like you can do it with anything, you know, you can go all over the gambit with it, you can go in to any genre, you know. With …

Transcript So the first three sounds you want to learn are the kick, the high hat and the snare. A real simple way to do this it’s doing the technique which most beat boxers can teach which is “boots and cats”. So you want to do boots and cats. So you want to do it …

Transcript For me, I’ve been beat-boxing and singing and using words sense around the ’90s, sense when I came up. I was doing it before that but I always did it in the shower. And um, I did this piece called the “Miserable Day” that I was performing all around New York City. And uh, …

Transcript “*Beatboxing and rapping* I’ve always used words before, like I said, but I really had some pent up, y’know, anger, that was going on, and so.. I was in Prague, actually I was in Rattleton, in the Czech republic in Rattleton, little town, in the train yard, surrounded by a ton of graffiti, and …

Instructions Step 1: Form your mouth To make the click roll, use your tongue on the roof of your mouth and flick it up and down. Step 2: The “Yeah Yeah” exercise Work out your jaw muscles with the “Yeah Yeah” exercise: Say “yeah” over and over, increasing speed as you go. Transcript “See, for …

Transcript The pf snare is the letter of f and the letter p that I also have explained earlier the cake was the letter p. so did the whole pee pee now which you want to do you want say f eff, im sorry which you wanna combine you like eff and the way you …

Transcript “So beatboxing, obviously, incorporates a lot of different bass sounds. You want to have bass in your beats. Some of those basses, you have simple ones like The way you do this is, y’know, doing like the letter R and just trying to shake your tongue. Then you got more harder basses, what to …

Transcript “Kid Lucky: Really I think that pattern are you know. It’s a pattern. What ever you want to do. So that’s a pattern right there. And like you know, with that pattern you can do a lot of stuff. JFlo: I think for example making patterns or sort of beats, lets say you’re a …

Transcript “How to Beatbox: Fartnoise Okay, so this is what I call the ‘fart noise’ and the reason why I like the fart noise is because sometimes when you beatbox you’ve got to realize that you can’t take life too serious. So if you put a fart noise in between you’re beats it will definitely …

Transcript “So I’m going to teach you how to do the kicks. Kicks are also a major part, obviously. The kick sounds like this: *instructor performs kicks* It’s like when a drummer puts his foot on the pedal, that kick. What you want to do is say the letter “”p””, but the way you want …

Transcript [Siren noise] This is what is call the siren. Now, the siren, you can use it however you want. It doesn’t have to be like a cop siren. You can just be creative with it, but the way you do it is you take your top teeth, you want to put them on your …