The trick is to make them think they've discovered it on their own. Learning how to beatbox is sort of like learning how to dance -- it's going to be awkward at first, and kids can feel self-conscious about doing those things in front of their parents. But if they just happen to find a tutorial lying around and can maybe practice in their bedrooms without any parents watching ... they just might connect with it.
Once I was capable of doing an inward snare, softly beatboxing to myself became my version of Spotify. Music is so much better when I do it myself, same goes for cooking. I know I’m biased ;-)
Inward snare inhale is where the real fun begins. Though, I find over many loops I end up with TOO much air, so I have been working on the outward-inward-snare, which is an exhale snare that sounds like the inhale snare.
Not of myself, but here's an example of the inward K snare (the most common, there are other inward hits such as a snare roll) https://youtu.be/DRk5QkDit2c
It's just a matter of practice to make a K sound the same inward as outward. Then you can manage your air seamlessly, like circular breathing.
If you say "Hey Siri, beatbox for me", it will respond: "Here's one I've been working on. Boots and cats and boots and cats and..." Today I refer to a common four-on-the-floor dance beat as "the standard boots-n-cats beat".
One problem is that from reading the words there's no way to know what rhythm is intended, in fact the words are often written in a misleading way. So I start beatboxing the way I think the rhythm is, then I listen to the audio and it's very different.
For example:
Bud D Daughter
Kiss D Daughter
Bad Double T
Kiss D Daughter
Considering each line to be one measure, I thought bad would start at the beginning of the measure. But in the recording it starts partway into the measure.
Demonstration: https://i.imgur.com/10lFVDm.png
Goose Kid D
Bubble D Cat Cat
This example is even more confusing. I thought both lines would be 4 beats. But the recording has the first line as 3 beats and the second line as 5 beats. Demonstration: https://i.imgur.com/YWzHDED.png
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 49.3 ms ] threadhttps://imgur.com/a/j3Eqgwm
Also, the audio examples do not work on this phone.
For iOS users who have a compatible player installed (I think VLC should do the trick), here's the direct links, in order of appearance:
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/boots_n_cats_words.ogg
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/boots_n_cats_beatbox.ogg
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/dog_dog_keys_words.ogg
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/dog_dog_keys_beatbox.ogg
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/bud_d_daughter_words.ogg
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/bud_d_daughter_beatbox.ogg
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/goose_kid_d_words.ogg
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/goose_kid_d_beatbox.ogg
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/buff_double_puff_words.ogg
https://beatboxingforkids.fun/buff_double_puff_beatbox.ogg
Then they went back to reading paper books, rigging wooden ship models, building forts in the woods, etc. JK. Right back to Fortnite and Instagram.
It's just a matter of practice to make a K sound the same inward as outward. Then you can manage your air seamlessly, like circular breathing.
Bum bum tits ticklenipple bum tits
For example:
Considering each line to be one measure, I thought bad would start at the beginning of the measure. But in the recording it starts partway into the measure. Demonstration: https://i.imgur.com/10lFVDm.png This example is even more confusing. I thought both lines would be 4 beats. But the recording has the first line as 3 beats and the second line as 5 beats. Demonstration: https://i.imgur.com/YWzHDED.png