Beatboxing 101

Students from Kindergarten to Grade 8 love to work at recreating the sounds of a drum kit. Even a little bit of knowledge about beatboxing on your part as a teacher can go a long way towards students  adding percussion parts to their singing.  I find that I just have to introduce the idea and then the students fly with it!

Here are a few videos to help:

Shlomo is a beatboxer from the UK who has done workshops for Musical Futures. You can play his videos for students and learn along with your class:

My students love to get inspiration from krNfx -  a Canadian beatboxer from Toronto. He has TONS of YouTube videos and students may recognize him from his work with Walk Off the Earth, etc. Here's one of my favs: