Beatboxing: Snare

Video Transcript

"Hey, what's up guys. My name's Eric Sackett. I'm from Orem, Utah. And today we're going to be talking to you a little bit about beat boxing. All right, the next is a snare drum. The snare drum is a little bit different than what we were talking about before with the bass drum. The snare drum, it uses the same amount of air, almost, but you're going to tighten your lips up before all the air comes out. So here's the snare drum for you. It goes. So what I'm doing there is I'm pushing the air out and then I'm closing my lips, so I'm tightening my lips up so I get kind of that cymbally sound. So, it kind of has that little thing in it. So, contrasting the bass to the snare drum it sounds like this. So when using the snare drum, using the snare drum is kind of like the offset beat for the bass, and so you'll want to learn the snare drum, you'll want to get the snare drum down pretty well. So, just keep practicing with that. "