20 January 2010

Snares today. Yeah, hollow snare and the snare that sounds like a dog barking. Hollow snare is actually the dog snare. Ok.

Then we learned this snare that you need to suck in. It's called inward snare. It's like pf snare but combined with some other lip vibration. It's hard to explain in words, so fuck it.

Then we jumped to vocal scratching. First we had to be able to reverse words. For example, hey would be pronounced yeh in reverse. Do it fast to do vocal scracthing nicely. There's many other scratches. Trumpet scratch, monotone scratch, and many other instruments.

After scratching, we learned crab scratch. We did the Dharni way of course. The index finger parallel to the ground, the thumb facing up and our lips making a shape that is just nice to do the scratch. Whatever it is, we have to look for the g-spot in between the thumb and the fucking index finger. And then suck in.

Then after that we were introduced to many genres. Hiphop is actually the easiest genre in beatboxing world. It's sorta like the slowest and the most convenient genre to beatbox.

There's funk then where it's faster. And many more that I don't remember. Jazz is hard because of the fill-ins. The beat is unique. And you can't rush in jazz. Dubstep is definitely the best genre because of the baselines. So yeah, we touched on baselines more.

And we were taught that you don't need to imitate a song EXACTLY to beatbox. You basically need to use creativity to remix a song. Well, that's for song covers. For beats, you need build-ups, which will always make the audience wow when they hear you on stage.

Fuck it, that's all for today's lesson with Dharni.