What are the click sounds? Beatbox is the style that contains this technique

It is really true what the Beatboxer Robeat told me: " We speak the Same Language ".

I met Roboat in December 2013 during the concert with the " Albert Hera Quintet " at the Metropol in Vienna and he was the presenter of the evening. Immediately after the Soundcheck we started to confront each other on the various sounds, to Jammare and I was very impressed by the fluidity with which all this happened and I realized that it was just like that: we talked the same language and the communication between us took place in total naturalness.

With the same naturalness he asked me to go on stage at the end of the evening and I found myself so in the middle of a Jam with 3 very high level beatboxers, in addition to Robeat there were also the Luxembourg Slizzer and  the Austrian Eon .

The same feeling was also re -proposed with Dave Crowe (of which I spoke in the previous article) in Milan with which, before one of his concerts, within a few minutes I found myself improvising and conversely converse.

Before and after the concerts I often happened to meet other beatboxers with whom the same scene was repeated: in no time we find ourselves dialogue and confusing with our common language .

Just as it happens for Italian, English, Japanese and all the languages ​​of the world, Beatbox has its first words (the first sounds) and its first sentences (the first rhythms) and just like the child who succeeds To say the first word after trying and experimented for days, weeks and months, the grass beatboxer is amazed and excites when he manages to produce his first sound so chased.

From this first sound the desire to always learn of new ones grows and to mix them together to build the first sentences and the first rhythms; The satisfaction continues to grow by feeding the desire to continue in the practice and discovery of this new language .

Beatbox is mainly a consonantic language and in the world there are very few languages ​​that include sounds typically used in the Beatbox.

One of the rare exceptions is the Khoisan , spoken mainly in the southwestern area of ​​Africa called Kalahari and in some areas of Tanzania .
This language includes the sounds called clicks , used a lot in beatbox and vocal percussion, made through the use of the snap of the tongue that takes place in different areas of the mouth and in different ways thus producing a wide variety of sounds.

I propose you in the first video in which the South African singer Miriam Makeba , also known as Mama Africa , plays the traditional song of Etnia Xhosa "Qongqothwane" which is traditionally sung at weddings.

Before the start of the song, the singer explains that the European colonizers, unable to pronounce the original title due to the right sounds, gave the song the title "Click song" .

In the second video you can listen to the same song in a choral version.

As I said, the sounds sound are widely used by beatboxers and vocal percussionists.

In the third video that I propose you can listen to the French Beatboxer Wawad who perfectly master this technique.

I greet you how to use between beatboxer: eSh !!!!!

See you soon!!