WingsOfAnAngel
Banned
ill o.g.
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It sounds like a set of drums but it's really a trained human voice:
Beat boxing is a form of vocal percussion making music using only the mouth to generate sounds usually made by drums and other musical instruments. With just their lips and a microphone, beat boxers reproduce the sound of drum kits, drum machines, turntables, hip hop, Latin and African percussion. Some sound exactly like an entire drum kit, and can emulate the sounds of a cappella, rock, rappers, singer-songwriters, traditional jazz, or almost any kind of percussion imaginable. Beat boxing borrows from the vocal percussion still used in African story telling, as well as the improvisational vocal art of "scat" singing in Jazz, and the many simultaneous vocal tones of Tuvan (Mongolian) throat singing. But beat boxing really started in the 1980s, with young African American guys in Harlem and the Bronx imitating what they heard on records. They became known as "human beat boxes" -- i.e., human versions of drums. Though it's still rare, beatboxing since spread to other ethnic groups and its practitioners have developed extremely individual ways of performing.
Beat boxing is a form of vocal percussion making music using only the mouth to generate sounds usually made by drums and other musical instruments. With just their lips and a microphone, beat boxers reproduce the sound of drum kits, drum machines, turntables, hip hop, Latin and African percussion. Some sound exactly like an entire drum kit, and can emulate the sounds of a cappella, rock, rappers, singer-songwriters, traditional jazz, or almost any kind of percussion imaginable. Beat boxing borrows from the vocal percussion still used in African story telling, as well as the improvisational vocal art of "scat" singing in Jazz, and the many simultaneous vocal tones of Tuvan (Mongolian) throat singing. But beat boxing really started in the 1980s, with young African American guys in Harlem and the Bronx imitating what they heard on records. They became known as "human beat boxes" -- i.e., human versions of drums. Though it's still rare, beatboxing since spread to other ethnic groups and its practitioners have developed extremely individual ways of performing.
