Beatboxing: Tongue Clicks

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Part of the video series: Basic Beatboxing

Summary: You have to keep one side of your tongue tight and one side loose to perform a tongue click. Learn how to do tongue clicks while beatboxing in this free music video.

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By Eric Sackett
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Eric Sackett has been beatboxing for nine years. He performs regularly and instructs students on beatboxing techniques at the university he attends. He also performs in acapella...read more

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"Tongue Clicks. Alright, so tongue clicks are a little bit more challenging. I don't know if any of you have seen a popular movie where they used this technique. But, it's just using your tongue. It's all about your tongue in this one. And you're using it on either side of your mouth to make this noise. And it's just tightening one side of your tongue and keeping the other side loose while you're pushing air through it. And that's kind of how it works, but this is how it sounds. It sounds like this. (demonstrates) With tongue clicks it's a lot better if you have a microphone to sing into. Because they're a lot harder to hear, because it's really hard to make them loud. Unless you're doing like a (demonstrates), but that doesn't work for most beat boxing styles. So, to do the tongue click again, is you want to have air and you want to keep one side of your tongue loose so you can get that (demonstrates). And to get different noises it's just right back to the mouth, opening it and closing it will create those different sounds, so that you can better fill and fit the style of the piece you're going for with the beat boxing."