BeatboxBeatboxÁlvaro Cabello Aguilar

2º Bachillerato AD

IndexIndex• What is beatbox?• Beatbox Styles • History of beatboxing• Professional Beatboxers• Basic Sounds• Advanced Sounds• Summary• Test

What is beatbox?What is beatbox?• Vocal percussion• Drum beats• Using your mouth, lips • Singing, vocal scratch, instruments• Connected with Hip Hop culture• “5th element”

Beatbox StylesBeatbox Styles• Freestyle : improvisation. Beatbox battles• Covers: adaptations of songs. Voice + Mouth• Layers: record a few rhythms. Audio editing

program.• Scratch: imitating a vinyl. Foward and backward

History of beatboxingHistory of beatboxing• 80s. Poor neighborhoods of NY. • Expensive radio cassette.• Allow rhythm to rap music.

• Razhel pioneers of bbxing. • Release his album. • worldwide recognized. • New technique, bbx while singing. • Influenced by rahzel

Professional Professional BeatboxersBeatboxers

• Reeps one: 2009 UK Champion . Creative bbxer. Electronic Music.

Professional Professional BeatboxersBeatboxers

• Beardyman: Layer style. UK Beatbox 2006/2007 Champion. Showman. Tv

Basic SoundsBasic Sounds• Kick drum: Represented with [b]. Vocalised /

Unvocalised

• Snare Drum: Variations. [pf]

• Hi-hat: Simple sound. [t] Also, [tk]

• B T PF T, B T PF T, B T PF T, …

Advanced SoundsAdvanced SoundsWater drop:

whistling position. blow air. Use our finger

Crab Scratch:Hand horizontally. Thumb vertically. Aspire.

SummarySummary• BBX – form of vocal percusion, using drum beats.• 4 styles: Layer, Freestyle, Cover, Scratch.• Created 80s.• Rahzel was pioneer of bbxing

• Reeps one and Beardyman are professional bbxers.

TestTestWhat beatbox style does not exist?

a)Flayerb)Layerc) Cover

Beatbox was created in…a)1999b) 80sc) 90s

When was Reeps One champion in the UK?a)2007b) 2010c) 2009

Kick drum is represented with…a)[pf]b)[b]c) [tk]

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