Beatboxing 101 - BEAT NYC

Beatbox is the original instrument. It all comes from the voice. Today, we're going teach you the three basic sounds of beatbox, which make up the foundation of it.

Now, the "kick" is the kick drum on the bottom and it makes the loud bass sound. It sounds like this: (Beatboxes bass sound) Alright? You hear that? (Beatboxes bass sound) How do you make that sound? Well, the way you make that sound is you take a "p" and you take a "b" and you mesh those two together and it's going to give you what we refer to as the kick drum. Pb! Pb! Pb! So, alright, so you try this: Pb! Pb! Excellent!

Now, the next sound is the almighty snare sound. And the snare sound is basically taking a "k" and an "a" and putting those two sounds together. And it sounds like this: Ka! Ka! Ka! Alright? So just try that, really easy. Ka! Ka! Ka!

Now, the last sound is one of my favorite sounds. It's the hi-hat. The hi-hat's my favorite sound, because it's always on the tip of your tongue. You basically take a "t" and an "s" and twist those two together, and it's going to sound like this: Ts Ts, Ts, Ts. It's great, right? So, you put all those together and you can make some really amazing, wonderful music that you can do anywhere. We can make beats in the car, right? So we can just drive through the city, making a beat. And it sounds a little something like this.

Let's speak to them. (Beatboxing) (Beatboxing ends) Alright, so that's how you can actually speak to each other. Now, those are really complex beat patterns, right? So, we'll do a few beat patterns with you and you repeat after me so you can begin to learn these sounds, alright? So check this out: (Beatboxing) [Pb Ts Ka] [Pa Ka] (Beatboxing) [Ts Ka Ts Ka Pb] (Beatboxing) [Pb Ka Ka Pb Ts] (Beatboxing) [Ts Ts Ka Pb]

So we can take all of those different rhythms and sounds, and jam with each other by listening to each other, right? So right now we're just rolling around, we're going to drop a phat beat, maybe see if we can find some friends. Check this out! (Beatboxing) [Beatsynth's mom] [Pb Ts Ts Ts Ts Ts Ts] [Pb Ts Ts Ts Ts Ts Ts] [Pb Ts Ts Ts Ts Ts Ts] [Pb Ts Ts Ts Ts Ts Ts]