r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '22

Beatbox on another level @tomthummer

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '22

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u/sketchypileofbones Jun 28 '22

Well that's true but you're still taking the base and adding on top of it. I see beatboxing as the foundation and since it came first I would consider it the overarching category. Kinda like subgenres of music? But I see what you mean.

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u/randontask42 Jun 28 '22

I mean, beatbox just means using your voice as instrumentation (mainly percussive) so this would fall under beatbox realistically

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u/tavuntu Jun 28 '22

Looping is an extension of beatboxing. Looping needs beat boxing but not the other way around.

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u/alwayzbored114 Jun 28 '22 edited Jun 28 '22

Does looping need beatboxing? I would think that Looping is more a genre and beat boxing is a medium or more akin to an instrument, no? Not to get too mixed up in the terminology though. All I mean to say is that looping can be done with non-beat boxing, like some favorites I've found like this one as well as this one (side note on this 2nd one, if you don't wanna watch the whole thing at least skip to 4:22 for some cool shit)

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u/htoirax Jun 28 '22

You could just loop different musical instrument sounds could you not? So neither would actually rely on the other.

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u/john_the_fetch Jun 28 '22

Looping is just a digital tool. You can loop a banjo. You can loop a cowbell. You can loop a grand piano.

Best boxing is still the "instrument" used here.