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Summary: No tone is required to do the lip buzz, just make sure to keep your lips tight. Learn how to do lip buzzes 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
"Ok so the lip buzz, the lip buzz is fairly simple. If any of you have ever been in any choirs or anything, it's just like warming up in choir, but you don't have any tone to it. It's just all air, so when you blow out air, when you keep your lips tight, it sounds like this (mouth impression). If you just keep your lights tight and blow out air, you can get that sound. The hard thing with the lip buzz, is you have to keep your lips tight enough so that it doesn't sound as (mouth impression) really sloppy, so you still have a tone to it, but it's all just air, so here's some different examples of lip buzzes you can do, so it would just be(mouth impressions) and I'm just using air on that. I don't have any hum or anything behind that. It's all just air, so with the lip buzz, you've got to keep your lips tight, and you've got to have air, a lot of air is what we're going for on this, so it's a (mouth impression) so that, that's kind of the lip buzz for you."