Lessons

BZZKTT Lessons support beatboxing across different educational music curriculums.

The lessons start right at the beginning but it may be helpful to read this Introduction to Phonics and the Overview of Beatboxology

Lesson 1 – Making Your First Beat

In this 5-part lesson you will learn three sounds, a kick, hi-hat, and rimshot and be able to combine them into an 8-Beat pattern. This is a pattern with 8 sounds in a row.

Teacher’s Notes

Part 1 – My First Sound (bilabial plosive)| QUIZ

Part 2 – Making a Kick Drum Sound (forced effector)| QUIZ

Part 3 – The Hi-Hat (dental plosive) | QUIZ

Part 4 – The Rimshot (velar plosive)| QUIZ

Part 5 – Making an 8-Beat Pattern

Lesson 1 Roundup QUIZ

Lesson 2 – The Classic Handclap

In this 5-part lesson you will learn how to make the Classic Handclap and use it in a 16-Beat pattern. This is a beat pattern with 16 sounds in a row.

Teacher’s Notes

Part 1 – The Handclap (buccal plosive)| QUIZ

Part 2 – Inward Sounds (inward effector) | QUIZ

Part 3 – Stops (alveolar stop)| QUIZ

Part 4 – Breathing (aspiration effector)| QUIZ

Part 5 – Making a 16-Beat Pattern

Lesson 2 Roundup QUIZ

Lesson 3 – The Classic Snare Drum

In this 3-part Lesson you will learn how to build the Classic Snare drum sound and use it in a simple two-sound pattern.

Teacher’s Notes

Part 1 – The Amiga Snare (tight effector)| QUIZ

Part 2 – The Classic Snare (labiodental fricative)| QUIZ

Part 3 – Two Sound Rock beat (rests)

Lesson 3 Roundup QUIZ

Lesson 4 – Tongue Grooves

In this 5-part lesson you will learn to make alveolar plosives – sounds made with the tip of the tongue and the alveolar ridge. You will then use a tongue kick and tongue snare in a beat pattern.

Teacher’s Notes

Part 1 – Making a Tongue Kick (alveolar plosive) | QUIZ

Part 2 – The 808 Snare | QUIZ

Part 3 – Blocking Airways (velar stop, nasopharyngeal stop) | QUIZ

Part 4 – The D-Kick | QUIZ

Part 5 – Adding Noise (bidental rear fricative) | QUIZ

Part 6 – Walk this Way (two beat sounds)

Lesson 4 Roundup QUIZ

Lesson 5 – Shakers

In this two-part lesson you will learn how to make a Bidental (rear) stop, Bidental (rear) Fricative, and Alveolar Fricative to make three different shaker sounds that you will use to create a continuous-sounding shaker pattern.

Teacher’s Notes

Part 1 – The Sharp Shaker (bidental stop) | QUIZ

Part 2 – The Slow Shaker (alveolar fricative) | QUIZ

Part 3 – Creating a Shaker Pattern

Lesson 5 Roundup Quiz

Lesson 6 – Percussives

In this lesson you will learn about percussive sounds by using a sublingual percussive in a classic ‘Drop it like it’s hot’ style beat pattern.

Teacher’s Notes

Part 1 – Making a Clave Sound (sublingual percussive)

Part 2 – The Hard Clave

Part 3 – ‘Drop da Heat’ Beat Pattern

Lesson 6 Roundup Quiz

Lesson 7 – Voicing Sounds

In this lesson you will learn how to vocalise a sound without breathing out (with velar and uvular stops) to create a synth tom sound. You will use the sound to create an a 1980s style beatbox pattern.

Part1 – 80’s Synth Tom (vocal high)|QUIZ

Part 2 – Love You Doug Beat Pattern

Lesson 7 Roundup Quiz

Lesson 8 – Throat Sounds

In this lesson you will use a vocal generator (voiced low) and use it to vocalise a kick and snare in a ZZ-top style beat whilst closing the airways.

Part 1 – 808 Kick (vocal low) | Quiz

Part 2 – 909 Snare | Quiz

Part 3 – ZZ Topper Groove

Lesson 8 Roundup Quiz

Lesson 9 – Oscillations

In this lesson you will learn about oscillations starting with a simple aspirated lip oscillation and building into a more complex synth sound.

Part 1 – The Baby bass (oscillation effector)| QUIZ

Part 2 – Building the Classic Synth

Lesson 9 Roundup Quiz

Lesson 10 – Non-Vocal Scratching

In this lesson you will learn a non-vocal scratch sound which is a sequence of two separate sounds. You will then use this scratch sound in a more complex beat pattern with five different sounds.

Part 1 – The Electro Stab (palatal fricative) | QUIZ

Part 2 – Tour de France scratch (bilabial fricative) | QUIZ

Part 3 – Salt-N-Pepa Shaker (velar fricative) | QUIZ

Part 4 – The Electro Scratch sequence | QUIZ

Part 5 – The NWA groove

Lesson 10 Roundup Quiz

Lesson 11 – Click Rolls

In this lesson you will learn the clicks and the famous ‘Doug E. Fresh’ style click-roll which you will then use in a beat pattern. No new iconophonics are introduced in this lesson.

Part 1 – The Classic Clickroll | QUIZ

Part 2 – The Clickroll Clave | QUIZ

Part 3 – The Show Beat Pattern

Lesson 11 Roundup Quiz

Lesson 12 – Vocal Scratching

In this lesson you will learn how to make a  vocal scratch, is a sequence of two speech sounds, and use it in the “My name is the TyTe” beat pattern.

Part 1 – Vocal Scratch ‘oo’ (pharyngeal fricative) | QUIZ

Part 2 – Vocal Scratch ‘er’ (vocal mid) | QUIZ

Part 3 – Vocal Scratch ‘oozi’ sequence | QUIZ

Part 4 – My Name is Tyte beat pattern

Lesson 12 Roundup Quiz