Body Beatboxing

Beatboxing is very common and popular nowadays. I know I have done an previous post about beatboxing, but that was with the mouth. But have you ever heard of body beatboxing or body percussion?

I had not heard of it before either until I was shown a video of an individual beatboxer. I thought it was a very innovative skill that totally put a spin on the beatboxing world. It is however, not as common as creating beats with the mouth, which I probably guess is because of the lack of variety of sounds the body can produce compared to the mouth. This type of technique of music-making is an example of how music can really utilize the entire body. This also reminds me of stepping.

In the video below, is the man who caused body beatboxing to be known. His name is James Ha and he also sings while he body beatboxes. In a way, I guess you can say that those who sings AND beatboxes with their mouths are more talented but this post was about introducing a new technique to people who have never heard of this type of beat production. Many of his previous videos have been removed by himself for some reason, so I only found one of them. It is a cover of Usher’s “Caught Up”:

In this other video below is one I found where a women utilizes this technique with another man beatboxing with his mouth. This woman also uses her feet in which she incorporates the technique of tap dancing. By the way, this video is just a rehearsal, that’s why it seems to be a bit sloppy.