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Summary: In order to maintain a beatbox sequence that sounds like real drums, steady tempo is a must. Learn how to keep a steady tempo while beatboxing in this free music video.
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
"Keeping a steady tempo is very important when you are doing beat boxing. Because usually beat boxing is mirroring what drums would sound like, and the drums in any band is keeping the beat. So in your tempo you got to make sure you are keep a steady tempo with what ever rhythm you are going with. So here is some different tempos you can use. So here is a really slow tempo you can use. So it will be. That is really slow or you can do really fast rhythm like this. And that is really fast and that is mostly just for practice. You got to practice a lot to get all those sounds working together. And that is using a lot of those fills and allot of those base sounds to get that really fast rhythm going. And if you are doing a medium tempo you always want a secondary beat to keep that going. So here is an example of that what I mean. So you want a base and then a snare so it is. So you have that secondary beat going on to keep the tempo really rhythmic and steady. When you are going faster you don't really need a set rhythm because it is going so fast. You just have to keep the same tempo."
eHow Article: Beatboxing: Steady Tempo