Monday, October 29, 2012

Beat Boxing

Beat Boxing has become quickly its own type of expressing music.  I mean if you can sing along to the lyrics of the song, why cant you also make the sounds of the music which more popularly done is the drums. The whole idea bloomed in the 1980's when people were introduced on stage as the human beatboxer. The word beatboxing comes from the original meaning Beat Machine and/or drums.

One of the earlier introductions where beat boxing wasn't very popular but was put into a song alot of people know.  Africa by perpetuum jazzile was preformed on stage where everyone used there hands and feet to mimic a thunderstorm and then the main beat was started by a beat boxer while continued doing so throughout the whole song to make it acapella.

A popular beat boxer after stormed the internet on youtube with his many different sounds he could make and ended up getting millions of views on his video and a career to go professional. Felix Zenger is a well known beat boxer who now is in a class of champions.

Needless to say it takes allot of time and practice and skill to be able to preform these songs and stay on beat.

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