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Learning Sound Patterns
The sound repertoire of a beatboxer is created by using the speech articulation system to generate sounds that seem very unspeech-like. In the following link, beatboxer Gavin Tyte explains his phonetic approach to beatboxing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXGSTKMMtpY
Like speech sounds, beatboxing sounds can be grouped based on their shared characteristics. Here, Tyte explains the categories of plosives, fricatives, clicks, and oscillations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI-Gxbnz8Wc
This video focuses on the plosives, which bear a great deal of resemblance to English plosive consonants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gq9sinBG2U
Below are a few lessons on basic beatboxing sounds. Although they have names that evoke non-speech sounds, their production and even their notation are very closely aligned with speech sounds:
Hi-hat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmVwOf5yd5M
Classic kick drum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGnOfxABTtU
Quiet rimshot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMGa6PgluyE
Fast hi-hats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WkRatVf-ZM
Classic snare drum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfMwyD_tM1A
In this video, Tyte demonstrates how beatboxers rely on auditory illusions to create the perception of multiple sounds being made simultaneously: