Miscellaneous - Human Beatbox

  by Fiona Hutchings

published: 21 / 2 / 2011

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Our Website of the Month is 'Human Beatbox', a website dedicated to beatboxing

Just in case you were wondering the ukulele lessons are progressing... when I say progressing I mean they've started and when I say they have started I mean I have managed to tune it. Anyway I am thinking of having beatboxing as a back up. What is beatboxing I hear you cry? Well according to Human Beatbox www.humanbeatbox.co.uk it is "the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds using one's mouth, lips, tongue, voice, nasal passage and throat." And let me tell you, if you haven't heard it performed yet then you are in for a treat. I first experienced beatboxing live when I saw Naturally 7 plying their particular brand of vocal play and it blew me away. How can people make this music with just themselves as instruments? Of course I did see beat boxing before, in year 11 at school, mostly performed by fifteen year old would be gangsters with delusions of swagger. Humanbeatbox.co.uk is the real deal though. Since 2002 they've "been the world's most comprehensive beatboxing resource. Dedicated to serving the world-wide human beatboxing community." And it is a large and varied community with its own championships, forums, links and lessons on perfecting your kick and snare drums not to mention your rolls and scratching. Even if you don't fancy having a go yourself please go and check this site out for the videos alone. They are something else. I watch most of them slack jawed and slightly suspicious that there isn't some musical assistance going on somewhere her, but honestly it is their own work. This site is as fly and slick as you would expect for such a hipcool pursuit. It has a shop, chat, forums, tutorials, galleries and links and it kicks oscillations. Check it out!