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Beat Box: Focus Questions

1. The document provides instructions for students to learn the basics of beat boxing, including exploring its history and defining features. 2. It outlines the three basic beat boxing sounds - the kick drum, hi hat, and snare drum - and provides links to videos demonstrating each one. 3. Students are instructed to practice making these three sounds individually and then combining them into simple rhythms, with the goal of eventually recording their beat boxing skills.

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Beat Box: Focus Questions

1. The document provides instructions for students to learn the basics of beat boxing, including exploring its history and defining features. 2. It outlines the three basic beat boxing sounds - the kick drum, hi hat, and snare drum - and provides links to videos demonstrating each one. 3. Students are instructed to practice making these three sounds individually and then combining them into simple rhythms, with the goal of eventually recording their beat boxing skills.

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Beat box

Focus Questions
EPISODE 4
1. Explain the Beat box story to another student.
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2. In which decade did beat boxing become popular? 6 MARCH 2012
3. In your own words, describe what beat boxing is.
4. What does Tom Thum use loop machines for? Learning Area
5. What instrument sounds did you hear Tom Thum make?
The Arts
6. What did he teach the kids at the school he visited?
7. What advice did Tom give to people interested in becoming a beat boxer?
8. What skills do you think beat boxers need?
9. Finish the following sentence: `Tom says being a good beat boxer means
10. Teach yourself one of the sounds Tom teaches to the students. Explain how
easy or difficult it was to make the sound.
Key learning
Students will explore what
Beat box beat boxing is and learn the
Students will be exploring what beat boxing is and learn to make the three basic three basic sounds of beat
sounds of beat boxing. Begin with a partner brainstorm asking students to write boxing.
down what they know about beat boxing then record any questions they have or
information they would like to know more about.
Ask students to research the following:
What is human beat boxing? Write a short description.
Investigate the history of beat boxing. Who were some of the pioneers of
beat boxing?
Where did the term beat boxing come from?
Beat boxing is mainly associated with hip hop and is often referred to as
the 5th element of hip hop. What are the other elements of hip hop?

Learn the basics of beat boxing


The following three sounds form the basic technique for beginner beat boxers
The kick drum {b}
The hi hat {t}
The snare drum {pf}
Hear the sounds at the beat box alphabet website http://www.bac.org.uk/get-
involved/beatboxalphabet/
These YouTube clips also demonstrate how to make each sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwJ1UhPOAQk&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSSNlso7vUg&feature=player_embedded#
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QP4vz30D1c&feature=player_embedded

Students can include


photographs, pictures or
diagrams in their report.
When students have practised making the basic sounds, they can have a go at
combining the sounds into a simple 8-beat rhythm.
{b t pf t / b t pf t} or {b t pf t / b b pf t}
Start slowly and build up speed later.
If students feel confident, they can record their beat boxing (either video or
audio).

Related Research Links


Beatbox TV Tutorials and music
http://beatbox.tv/bbtv/films

BAC Beatbox alphabet


http://www.bac.org.uk/get-involved/beatboxalphabet/

You Tube Beatbox Battle TV Tom thum


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEosjqytjRM

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