Beatboxing

“Beatbox” and “Beat box” redirect here. For other uses, the cultural tradition that came to be known as “beat-
see Beatbox (disambiguation). boxing”. Paul McCartney's "That Would Be Something"
Beatboxing (also beat boxing or b-boxing) is a form of (1969) includes vocal percussion. Pink Floyd's "Pow R.
Toc H." (1967) also includes vocal percussion performed
by the group’s lead vocalist Syd Barrett. Jazz singers,
Bobby Mcferrin and Al Jarreau were very well known for
their vocal styles and techniques which have had great im-
pact on techniques beatboxers use today. Michael Jack-
son was known to record himself beat-boxing on a dic-
tation tape recorder as a demo and scratch recording to
compose several of his songs, including "Billie Jean",
"The Girl Is Mine", and others.[3] Gert Fröbe, a German
actor most widely known for playing Auric Goldfinger in
the James Bond film Goldfinger, “beatboxes” as Colonel
Manfred von Holstein (simultaneously vocalizing horned
and percussive instruments) in Those Magnificent Men in
their Flying Machines, a 1965 British comedy film.
Biz Markie beatboxing

vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking 1.2 Origins in hip hop
drum beats using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. It
may also involve vocal imitation of turntablism, and other The term “beatboxing” is derived from the mimicry of
musical instruments. Beatboxing today is connected with the first generation of drum machines, then known as
hip-hop culture, often referred to as “the fifth element” of beatboxes. “Human beatboxing” in hip-hop originated in
hip-hop, although it is not limited to hip-hop music.[1][2] 1980s. Its early pioneers include Doug E. Fresh, the self-
The term “beatboxing” is sometimes used to refer to vocal proclaimed first “human beatbox”,[4] Swifty, the first to
percussion in general. implement the inhale sound technique, Buffy, who helped
perfect many beatboxing techniques and Wise, who con-
tributed significantly to beat boxing’s proliferation. Wise
inspired an entire new fan base of human beatboxers with
1 History his human turntable technique. Other pioneers of beat-
boxing include Rahzel well known for his realistic robotic
1.1 Prehistory sounds and for his ability to sing and beatbox simultane-
ously, Scratch a beatboxer and musician well known for
Techniques similar to beatboxing have been present in further revolutionizing the use of vocal scratching in beat-
many American musical genres since the 19th century, boxing, and Kenny Muhammad “the human orchestra”
such as early rural music, both black and white, religious a beatboxer known for his technicality and outstanding
songs, blues, ragtime, vaudeville, and hokum. Few ex- rhythmic precision, who pioneered the inward k snare, a
amples are the Appalachian technique of eefing and the beatbox technique that imitates a snare drum by breathing
blues song Bye bye bird written and performed by the inward.
harmonica player Alex or Aleck Miller aka Sonny Boy
Williamson II.
1.3 Modern beatboxing
Additional influences may perhaps include forms of
African traditional music, in which performers utilize The Internet has played a large part in the popularity
their bodies (e.g., by clapping or stomping) as percus- of modern beatboxing. Alex Tew (aka A-Plus) started
sion instruments and produce sounds with their mouths the first online community of beatboxers in 2000 un-
by breathing loudly in and out, a technique used in beat- der the banner of HUMANBEATBOX.COM. In 2001,
boxing today. Gavin Tyte, a member of this community created the
Many well-known performers used vocal percussion oc- world’s first tutorials and video tutorials on beatboxing. In
casionally,even though this was not directly connected to 2003, the community held the world’s first Human Beat-

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2 3 COMMON SOUNDS AND IMITATIONS

box Convention in London featuring beatbox artists from box Championship in 2010. American Beatbox Cham-
all over the world. pions include Frisco (San Francisco, California), J-Flo
Beatboxing’s current popularity is due in part to releases (Long Island, New York), Rizumik (Lisbon, Portugal),
from artists such as Reeps One, Rahzel, and Alem.[5] Beat Rhino (Irvine, California), and NaPoM (Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania). In 2013, Chesney Snow stepped down
Sometimes, modern beatboxers will use their hand or an- from organizing and producing the American Beatbox
other part of their body to extend the spectrum of sound Championship and passed it on to Steven Foxx. 2013
effects and rhythm. Some have developed a technique was also the year that the movie “American Beatboxer”
that involves blowing and sucking air around their fin- came out that documented the 2010 International Human
gers to produce a very realistic record scratching noise, Beatbox Convention (Boxcon) and the 2010 American
which is commonly known as the 'crab scratch'. Another Beatbox Championship in Brooklyn, New York that fea-
hand technique includes the 'throat tap' which involves tured the 2010 American Beatbox Championship finalists
the beatboxer tapping their fingers against their throat as Maximillion, B.Flow, HeaveN Beatbox, Frisco, Luckey-
they throat sing or hum. Monkey (who married England beatboxer Fat Tony), the
Today there is an increase in the variety in which we see Human Drum Machine, NYC Beatbox, the One Mouth
beatboxing throughout musical culture. People have gone Band with featured appearancees by American beatbox-
as far as adding beatboxing in with different instruments ers Rahzel, Kenny Muhammad, and Jason Tom. It also
to create a completely different sound unlike any other. featured beatboxers from overseas, including Reeps One,
Artist Greg Patillo goes as far as adding in beatboxing Hobbit, Lytos, LOS, Ezra, and KRNFX.
while playing the flute to very iconic songs. Beatbox has
become modernized and has even been seen in popular
movies such as Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2. Both of
these movies showcase classical songs performed with a
3 Common sounds and imitations
Capella covers in which all of the beats to the songs are
done completely using the idea and technique of beatbox- Using beatboxing techniques, a skilled beat boxer has the
ing to complete the sound capable to imitate the original ability to imitate many types of sounds including those
song. of a classic drum set, turn table, electronic effects, trum-
pet, and electric guitar. Some of these sounds have two
different iterations: one used while exhaling air while the
other used while inhaling air, allowing the artist to con-
2 Notable actors tinue practicing without having to take an actual breath.

2.1 Beatbox Battle Network

3.1 Classic drum set sounds
Beatbox Battle Network was founded in summer 2002
in Berlin, Germany as a non profit organization with the • kick drum
main focus to support the global beatboxing community.
It is specialized on culture marketing, live broadcasting • Hi-hat
and artist management. BBB3TV also known as Beatbox
Battle Television produces the Beatbox Beatbox World • Snare drum
Championship. The first Beatbox Battle World Cham-
pionship held in Berlin was year 2005 followed by 2009, • Rim-shot
2012 and 2015. World Champions for the individual men
include Joel Turner (he was also the first Beatbox Battle
• Cymbal
World Team Champion with Tom Thum), ZeDe, SkilleR
and Alem. World champions for the invididual women
include Butterscotch, BellaPentrix, Pe4enkata and Kaila
Mullady . They have featured beatboxers in most coun- 3.2 Turntable effects
tries of the world.
• Vocal scratch

2.2 World Beatbox Association • Electro scratch

The World Beatbox Association or WBA was originally • Crab scratch

founded in 2010 in partnership with Humanbeatbox.com
and Chesney Snow alongside Kenny Muhammad and Ma- • Whistle scratch
sai Electro. Today the WBA executive curator is Ches-
ney Snow. The WBA produced the first American Beat- • Throat scratch
5.1 Vocal Acrobatics 3

3.3 Electronic effects 5.1 Vocal Acrobatics

• Siren Vocal acrobatics is a specifically focused form of multi-

vocalism, pioneered by American beatboxer and artist
• Dubstep Wobble Bass Derick “D” Cross. Cross defines this technique as,
“The rhythmic juggling of Vocal scratching ,Vocal per-
• Synthesizer cussion,Vocal Instrument Mimicry, and Vocals (Singing,
Spoken word, or Rapping) done at various tempos and
• Machine noises Most often rapidly.”

• Vehicle sounds

6 Beatrhyming
3.4 Instruments
Beatrhyming is an advanced form of beatboxing pio-
• Trumpet/Trombone neered by beatbox icon Terry “kid lucky” Lewis. Lewis
describes beatrhyming as “The art of rapping, singing
• Bass Guitar or performing spoken word while beatboxing simultane-
ously”. He sites artists such as fellow beatboxers Rahzel
• Electric Guitar and Masai Electro, jazz singer Bobby Mcferrin and many
others as influences. Beatrhyming has also been made
• Digeridoo famous by artists such as American hip-hop vocalist D-
Cross, 3-time beatrhyming champion and musician Kaila
• Hand Percussion Mullady, and award-winning New Zealand-born beat-
boxer King Homeboy. Lewis founded Beatrhyme Com-
munications, an organization created to promote the art
4 Notation of beatrhyming, as well as other vocal arts (beatboxing,
scat singing, whistling, overtone singing,Konnakol,etc.).
Other artists involved with this program include Mullady
As with other musical disciplines, some form of musical and Cross, as well as beatboxer and multi-instrumentalist
notation or transcription may sometimes be useful in or- Yako 440, whistler Gorden “Frequency” Ramsey, scat
der to describe beatbox patterns or performances. Some- singer Marya Lawrence Hart, and many others.
times this takes the form of ad hoc phonetic approxima-
tions, but is occasionally more formal.
Standard Beatbox Notation (SBN) was created by Mark
Splinter and Gavin Tyte[6] of Humanbeatbox.com in 7 World records
2006[7] as an alternative to International Phonetic Alpha-
bet (IPA) transcription, which had been used sparingly According to the Guinness World Records, the current
before then. record for the largest human beatbox ensemble was set
In a research study published in 2013 and based on real- by Booking.com employees. The record involved 4,659
time MRI imaging of a beatboxer, the authors propose participants and was achieved by Booking.com employ-
a notation system which combines the International Pho- ees together with beatboxers at the RAI Amsterdam in
netic Alphabet with musical staff notation, in part moti- Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 10 [9]
December 2013 during
vated by their observation that many beatboxing sounds their annual company meeting.
can be adequately represented by the IPA.[8] The previous largest human beatbox ensemble involved
2,081 participants and was achieved by Google (Ireland),
Shlomo (UK) and Testament (UK) at The Convention
Centre, Dublin, Ireland on 14 November 2011.[10]
5 Multi-vocalism
Before Shlomo’s record, the previous record for the
Multi-vocalism is a form of vocal musicianship concep- largest human beatbox ensemble involved 1,246 partic-
tualized by British Beatboxer and vocalist Killa Kela. It ipants and was achieved by Vineeth Vincent and Christ
describes Beatboxers who incorporate other vocal disci- University (India)
[11]
in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, on 5
plines and practices into their routines and performances February 2011.
such as, Singing, Rapping, Sound mimicry and other vo- King Homeboy, a beatboxer and musician from New
cal arts. Some other well known multi-vocalists include Zealand currently holds the world record for the world’s
(but are not limited to) Beardyman, Beatmaster g, Masta longest individual beatboxing, MARATHON which is 36
mic, and Petebox. hours
4 12 REFERENCES

8 Selected discography • Blake Lewis - A.D.D. (Audio Day Dream) (2007)

• Faioso - “I'm Movin' On” featuring Jason Tom

This list is a selected discography of commercial releases (2009)
which are mostly/entirely beatbox-based or are otherwise
notable/influential records in the history of beatboxing • Dub FX - “Everythinks a Ripple” (2009)
and its popularisation.

8.4 2010s
8.1 1980s
• Beardyman - I Done A Album (2011)
• Michael Winslow - Police Academy (1984)
• Hopsin - “Lunch Time Cypher” (2013)
• Fat Boys - “Human Beat Box” from "Fat Boys"
(1984) • Pentatonix - Pentatonix (2015)

• Doug E. Fresh - "The Show" & "La Di Da Di"

(1985) 9 Styles of beatboxing
• Just-Ice - Back to the Old School (1986)

• Wise - Just Say Stet (1985), Faye (1986) & Stet 10 In popular culture
Troop 88 (1988)
When asked to beatbox, Siri will repeat the phrase “Boots
• Biz Markie - Goin' Off (includes beatbox track and Cats” to mimic beatboxing.[12] Teen Vogue called it
“Make The Music With Your Mouth, Biz”) (1988) “perhaps the most entertaining mid-day pick-me-up ever
created.”[13]
• Vanilla Ice - Havin' a Roni - from To The Extreme
(1990)

11 See also
8.2 1990s
• List of beatboxers
• Rahzel - Make The Music 2000 (1999)
• List of American beatboxers
• Metabass and Breath - The life and times of a beat-
boxer • Hip hop music

• Konnakol
8.3 2000s • Scat singing
• Kyle “Scratch” Jones - The Embodiment of Instru- • Puirt a beul
mentation (2002)
• Breath Control: The History of the Human Beat Box
• Killa Kela - The Permanent Marker (2002)
• Michael Winslow
• Esham - Out Cold (2003)

• Justin Timberlake - "Rock Your Body" (2003)

12 References
• Rahzel - Rahzel’s Greatest Knock Outs (2004)
[1] The History of Beatboxing, humanbeatbox.com
• Björk - Medúlla (2004)
[2] D. Stowell and M. D. Plumbley, Characteristics of the
• Joel Turner - "These Kids" (2004) beatboxing vocal style. Technical Report C4DM-TR-08-
01. 2008.
• Matisyahu - "Live at Stubb’s" (2005)
[3] “Michael Jackson BeatBoxing” (Youtube video, 4:58
• Biz Markie - Make the Music with Your Mouth, Biz min). Jackson beatboxes while explaining how he com-
(2006) posed "Tabloid Junkie", "The Girl Is Mine", "Who Is It",
"Billie Jean", and "Streetwalker" (song on the Bad album
• Poizunus - A.D.D. (Active Dreaming Disorder) 2001 Special Edition). 2008-03-27. Retrieved 2011-01-
(2007) 13.

• Kid Beyond - Amplivate (2004) [4] “Doug E. Fresh”. MTV Artists.

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[5] Garfield, J. Breath Control: The History Of The Human

Beat Box at the Internet Movie Database. 2002. A docu-
mentary on the history of the art form, including interviews
with Doug E. Fresh, Emanon, Biz Markie, Marie Daulne
of Zap Mama, Kyle Faustino, and others.

[6] TyTe. “Standard Beatbox Notation”. HumanBeat-

Box.com.

[7] Liu, Marian (2007-01-04). “Beatboxing: An oral history;

Hip-Hoppers Turn to Voice-Based Rhythms”. San Jose
Mercury News. (California).

[8] Proctor, M.I. and Bresch, E. and Byrd, D. and Nayak,

K. and Narayanan, S. (2013). “Para-Linguistic Mech-
anisms of Production in Human “Beatboxing": a Real-
time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study”. Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America 133 (2): 1043–1054.
doi:10.1121/1.4773865.

[9] “Guinness World Records”. Guinness World Records. Re-

trieved 16 January 2014.

[10] Guinness World Records http://www.

guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/2000/
largest-human-beatbox-ensemble. Retrieved 30
December 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)

[11] “Largest human beatbox ensemble”. Retrieved 2012-03-

27.

[12] “Siri drops sick beats when you ask her to beatbox”.
CNET. CBS Interactive. 13 January 2016.

[13] Kate Dwyer. “iPhone’s Siri Can Totally Beatbox - Teen

Vogue”. Teen Vogue.

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