And if you'd like to learn more about how your voice can make these kinds of sounds... You need a good foundation. Get this foundation with my free voice course! Go here to sign up! chrisliepe.com/free-your-voice/
Codfish, DLow, Remix. Enjoy yourself it’s worth it! make sure to record all reactions. Codfish and DLow 2018 and 2019 GBB compilations are the best of all time! 🤞
Buuuuddy. I've been waiting for you to discover the BBX world. Welcome to your new obsession. I've really enjoyed watching the fairy voice mother go down this rabbit hole, and can't wait to see you too. You're gunna be bombarded with requests, I'm sure, but right now I'm really into Vahtang - feeling free. Powerful vocals there too.
Some other quiet spoken legends you could check out are Villain vs Dudz in BBU, or ZVD vs. Clutch in Beatbox community. Lastly, 2021 was a crazy year in GBB, so a 10 ten solo drops list is a good one to look at. Have fun with it!
So glad you took a look at this, Beatboxers have been experimenting a lot with interesting extended techniques and using them in ways that haven’t been studied much. Always good to have more vocal experts become aware of this world. Some suggestions for beatbox performances that incorporate singing Stitch - Feels Like Nothing King Inertia - GBB21 Elimination Round Den - GBB24 Wildcard Gene Shinozaki - Metamorphosis River - My Way D-low - Sing a Little Harmony
Welcome to the wild world of Beatboxing!! There is so much so digest if you are not familiar with what our voices can produce, but it’s extremely fun learning about everything too. I would suggest checking out some of these beatboxers next! D-Low, Codfish, Remix, Vocodah, Helium, and honestly there are so many other talented people! Looking forward to seeing more bro!
What I absolutely love about your channel is that your first reaction upon coming onto something new is: Hold on, what's that? How do I do that? What's going on? And this curiosity is infectious!
This is wild! 🤯 You know Chris, you remind me of my husband with a TV remote. He doesn’t want to just know what’s on, he wants to know what ELSE is on. Vocally, you don’t want to just know what you can do. You want to know what ELSE you can do and you bring us students right along with you. 🤩 Your teaching never gets boring. 🎉 Looking forward to that plugin.
Great vid Chris! That "little fizzy" sound is a lip roll. It's made purely by vibrating the lips. No air is involved, so it can be combined with a lot of other vocalizations to create layers in the sound. Napom is arguably one of that best at this technique.
Btw when bbxers say "no air" we are specifically talking about not utilizing our lungs. There is also variations of the lip roll that do use air but they usually sound dramatically different. Very versatile, very hard, very amazing sound!
Not to detract from Indicator, who is a great beatboxer, but the evolution of the beatbox community has been incredible since this came out years ago. Excited for you to hear more of the new school of artists and get into the culture.
I never imagined you would venture into this category! I've had such a fascination with beatboxing for years now and I'm SO excited to see your evaluation of this exact video!
Btw, probably worth noting that when trying beatbox for yourself Indicator’s “Alien Bass” is probably not the best place to start. It’s a cool and unique technique, but it’s very difficult to learn and he’s the only one who uses it. He also hasn’t entered and won many big live competitions with it, so it may be temperamental even for him. It’s really cool to see him showcase it here, but there’s lots of other bass vocal techniques Beatboxers use that aren’t this finicky to master.
You are such a joy to watch and learn from! Truly demonstrating that learning to do something new takes lots of practice and being fully open to making mistakes. This applies to so much, even outside of music - thank you so much for sharing!
@@chrisliepe D-low is considered the best beatboxer in the world by many currently and just released a whole album - this is my favorite track of his that isnt layered or has effects or extra productiony stuff ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0I_FIPcl0dA.html Someone that has been extremely popular outside of the beatbox world that does his own thing is show-go, this is one of his most popular songs, very different style to the first link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yT3_vLQ3jbM.html YA-NA-HA is a more recently formed crew, 4 beatboxers, one of the most pleasant sounding songs ive ever heard in beatboxing that you could go crazy analyzing if you want to hear a multi person track that has no voice adjustments, just things like reverb ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H07gziO04ig.html
@@chrisliepeAstron He’s a Blind Beatboxer so learning skills isn’t based off seeing the mouth position just simply by hearing and he’s Argentine Champ and Also just did a BeatDuel live tournament Months back he also Won dudes amazing and someone to really figure out how he’s mastered it also has some of the craziest Vocal Whistles and Basses 10:49 Lip Roll 11:08 ClickRoll overbite
@chrisliepe check out ZVD's Florida wildcard called "Horizons" or check out anything by Dlow or Collaps, they're considered to be the best in the world right now
7:19 YOU'RE SO CLOSE TO IT!!! Thats the 'vibration bass' that Indicator is doing here. Keep the pressure into the gritty sensation there, and force it out by placing even more pressure. It will hurt a lot hahahhahah, but that's how you initiate the sound. Good luck!
Codfish, DLow, Remix. Enjoy yourself it’s worth it! make sure to record all reactions. Codfish and DLow 2018 and 2019 GBB compilations are the best of all time! 🤞
N0. On every single video like this I see a bunch of comments recommend these basic beattbooxers. 😂 I hate it, it's ALWAYS these 4 🤦🏻♀️😂 y'all never name anybody different
A little correction here: at around 4:00 you mention him using throat singing. It's actually not a throat singing method, but more of a classical subharmonic singing (that is based on mixing vocal fry with chest voice). Kargyyra throat singing does not utilise vocal fry and is based on stable false cords distortion :) It's an important distinction, since the way you achieve the sound is physically totally different (and frankly I feel that this technique - classical subharmonic singing is WAAAY more difficult to control and master than kargyyra throat singing) :)
Though everyone here is mostly correct, what you're saying is not truly correct. Indicator is not using vibration bass. Vibration bass is the 2nd subharmonic of THROAT bass, and Indicator is achieving a 3rd subharmonic of thorat bass, which in itself is amazing, but to master it to this degree is utterly outstanding, I have never seen, or heard anyone do it as cleanly as him. He has a tutorial on how to do his bass, and there you could clearly see that his bass is not vibration bass. David Larson(who is known for knowing a lot of different bass singing techniques, and doing tutorials on them) also has a reaction to his video, and although he also mentions that he is using Vibration bass, he corrects himself in his description when he talked with Indicator himself saying that it is a 3rd level of throat subharmonic, which I do not think even has an official "beatbox" name yet, as it is not widely used.
Yes! I was wondering when you would start going down the beatbox rabbit hole, I believe the fields of harsh vocals and beatbox can probably be combined in so many ways to create new techniques and sounds. I'd like to see you react to "ZVD | Horizons | Florida beatbox battle 2024 solo wildcard". It's less musical and produced than other recommendations I'm seeing in the comments, very raw, no edits, he doesn't have a mic in his face so you can see his mouth shapes, and he uses a LOT of different techniques :). Well maybe that vid is diving in too deep for now
Probably been said but the "open hi hat sound" you're talking about around 12:00 is called the spit snare And it is performed by creating a lot of pressure between the lips with a pocket of air and then suddenly forcing a small bit of air/pressure out Or Make a cartoon chewing tobacco spit sound and then do that super hard
Just a little tip on the kicks is not to exhale, you lose power and clarity in the kick from the breath. Try to just use the air that's in the mouth already and channel it into the kick through the lips, all the power and clarity comes from the pop of the lips rather than the expulsion of air, if that makes sense.
Honest to god im watching some chris liepe vocal breakdowns, something draws me to check out a react to beatboxing short I saw some time ago... i go down that rabit hole... an hour later i open my phone and go to youtube and theres chris liepe with his take on beat boxing and i honestly did not expect him to bring this much analysis and explanation to the table let alone reproduce some of the sounds so well... I should have known better by now this guy really knows what hes talking about when it comes to vocals/voice
the snare sound is the one that baffles me the most. also the microphone definitely plays a big part! btw the new zeal & ardor album just came out and if you haven't checked them out, you definitely should. you get a clash of different styles but also very interesting layered vocals and harmonies. the idea of the band was blues/gospel meets black metal. you might like it
As best as I can tell his bass isn't throat singing, rather just the 2nd subharmonic.Throat singing (throat bass) and it's 2nd subharmonic (vibration bass) sound fairly different and are definitely more popular and easier to learn.
@@andoletubeyes but it's important to differentiate because the techniques required are different. Throat bass is just that, a single sound produced in your throat. Vibration bass requires a more controlled throat bass and an additional technique above that. It's also more restrictive in every way than throat bass.
I believe indicators bass is done using vocal fry with a subharmonic rather than throat singing which uses the false folds. No idea how he gets his fry to sound so full though.
@@sametrilogy5457 I don't believe he uses throat bass. In his tutorial he just did 2 regular subharmonic singing notes, one humming, one in the throat. He says he "combines them", though I don't believe it's actually possible to phonate two different fundamental tones at the same time, so my guess is that it's just his proprioceptive description of dropping into the second sub.
I was a beatboxer once before i actually got into rock and metal singing. It's actually funny to see Chris Liepe posting a video about beatboxing, i almost forgot about this 🤣
This is great! I ran across an awesome beat boxer named Trung Bao via YT rabbit trail the other day, proceeded to watch all their stuff lol. Fav of theirs was Venom.
And so the rabbit hole begins!!! Absolutely loved the reaction, and I think you would have a blast listening to the vocal anomalies of a beatboxer by the name of Stitch (Stitch - “Feels Like Nothing” GBB21 Wildcard is my recommendation). He’s known for his polyphonic voice (which I think will melt your brain) and what he calls the “626 effect”. It’s absolutely insane.
Always nice to see people (especially proffesionals on something very close like here beatboxing/vocals) who don't understand what's happenning but very excited of it. Trying to do something similar with 0 understanding how beatbox works is very fun, but trying to understand is still much better then doing nothing. Sorry for my bad english)
hey chris! I totally love your videos and i´m glad you made this video haha. I beatboxed myself for abt 2-3 years and tought everything myself and today i love metalcore and alr scream for 1-2 years. Your videos also helped me a lot and i think it´s kinda funny that you´re beggining to enjoy beatboxing now too haha. I recommend you to react to tom thums tedx staging bc that´s a classic video and i think most beatboxers (including me) started with that bc of that video
Love this video! I've recently found beatboxing and been practising it myself for a couple months. So it turns out the Alien Bass is actually not a Throat Bass, or more accurately, it's not a Vibration Bass which is a lower resonance throat bass combined with a vocal fry. As the tutorial describes, it's a polyphonic sub-bass. He somehow finds two resonating sounds, one in his throat and one in his nose, and combines the two to create the Alien bass. But as far as I understand, it doesn't use your false folds like a throat bass. It actually uses your normal voice, which makes it sound even more insane! I could also be slightly incorrect here, as I'm also fairly new, but hopefully this provides some useful context on how he does the bass :)
Love your analysis and reaction! You'll see a lot of similar sounds but everyone is unique in their style and execution. I recommend you check out some others like D-low, Colaps, River and Napom. Cant wait to see more!!
Throat bass is the 2nd subharmonic and I believe he is in the 3rd(Dont quote me im not a vocalist or anything close to it). So its not throat bass its closer to a vocal fry but its 2 sounds together(he explains it really well in his tutorial). Additional insight: 1. 9:25 The kick is actually the same as saying P or B but not vocalized. To get it stronger get your lips tighter and push more air out. Try to say B but dont let the air get out and push more and more and let it all out at once. 2. 10:50 I'm not sure which you are referring to but there are 2 sounds that could be causing the fizzy sound. The Lip Roll and the Spit Snare(sounds like a distorted clap). If you are referring to the other bass sounds the fizzy part may be because of the microphone. 3.11:02 Both sound were inhale. The one at the end is called an inward K snare(Skiller has a great tutorial on it). He vocalized it here with the inhale its usually not vocalized. 4. 11:27 Here the open hihat is outward he does not breathe with it. He just has good breath control so in that whole pattern he only needed breath at the end. If it's inward he wouldn't be able to maintain the sound from his bass which is outward. For the people that know more, if I got anything wrong feel free to correct.
I = Inhale E = Exhale A = Airless (no inhale or exhale) 3:47 Slizzer Roll, I 3:48 Inward K snare, I 3:50 Alien base, E (not throat singing) 7:48 pf snare, A (can be E to add more power) 9:16 spit snare, A 10:47 lip roll, A (can be I) 11:00 not sure, I think it is an inward clickroll, I Note on high-hat and kick placement: To keep the flow in a beat that includes some sort of vocal presence, high-hats (and by extension kicks) are combined with the word that is being said. 7:43 kick placement (A) 9:16 high-hat placement (in this case E) 11:41 The high-hat is E. If you listen carefully, you can here the vocals underneath the high-hat which is not humanly possible to do both an (I) high-hat while doing (E) bass. For those people who haven't watched the Alien Bass tutorial, he is not doing throat singing (we call it throat bass). He layers 2 subharmonic notes (Through nose and mouth) to create a 3rd lower note.
I would love to see you check out more beatboxing content! I heavily recommend D-low, one of the greats. He has tons of tracks, but he also did a really interesting breakdown of a lot of the different basslines that are used in beatbox(31!). Awesome to see you interested in this!
This is so similar to how i became infatuated with beatbox.... i just had to know how they did it! I can now do a lot of the sounds! not together and not with any musicality but just from a scientific exercise of learning it i really enjoyed!
Hey Chris, I'm actually happy to see a bbx video here, I love your videos as always ! I kind of know how he does it, because I do it too, it's a subharmonic, but for me, is to go so low that it vibrates differently, and you close/contract your throat more to sound like this, hope this helps ! And for all of the other sounds, it's only practice, you'll get it someday ! PS : Because the subharmonic is not loud on mic, he is putting so much gain, bass, reverb, and all kind of stuff to sound like this
Check out the Bjork album “medulla”, most of the music is made from human voices, particularly the tracks “where is the line” and “who is it?” that feature Mike Patton, Rahzel the godfather of noise (from the roots) and dokaka (Japanese guy who recreates classic metal songs layering his voice). Those three together with bjork singing on top.
Does that mean there's a chance that we might, maybe, hypothetically get Will to dabble in beatboxing; and answer my 10 year old question of what would happen if you combine the styles?
There's a mini documentary called "We Speak Music" by a beatboxer named "Reeps One", in one episode he was studied by doctors and they have determined that beatboxers may in fact be directly evolving the human body. It's a great watch.
10:53 What indicator did over the alien bass was a hollow liproll, there's alot of tutorials on liprolls and it's a bass sound every beatboxer knows and It is a sound that has a ton of variations that change in sound and technique depending on the beatboxer
@@thefarrage sure... I mean, hollow liprolls are kinda basic? I can tell by his usage of it while doing the alien bass (which is outwards) and the hollow liproll is the only liproll that doesn't require inhaling or exhaling air from your lungs
10:46 That “fizzy” sound is called a lip roll! It’s caused by a similar motion mechanically to sucking on a straw in the corner of your mouth. Two main variants are a regular lip roll (no breath) and an inward lip roll (breathing in with the motion) Tons of tutorials explain it better, but essentially it’s a sort of 808/sub bass done with the lips that provides texture in bass heavy routines.
You might be interested in someone like Stitch. A lot of the more vocal oriented people I've seen take an interest in beatboxing have found his "Feels Like Nothing" wildcard incredibly interesting to analyze and dissect. He uses a couple of vocal techniques in it that no other beatboxers had really used much if at all to that point. Things like polyphonics with just one voice and no outside production. One cool thing about the "wildcard" performances you might come across on YT is that you can be assured they have very, very minimal production because there are analysts who scrutinize them for competition purposes.
There is so many good beatboxers it's hard to choose what to suggest, but for that shock-factor I would go with Azel - Demuth. Other names to keep in mind/check out: D-Low, Napom, Codfish and DEN. That's just to name a few. Happy beatbox rabbit hole journey!
The sound is a vocal fry with overtones, and some post fx. The sound itself isn't inherently very bass-y. That's why his mic is so saturated. The only other example of similar sounds that I can think of is a beatboxer named Enil also does a crazy vocal fry and his videos are wicked as well
Hey there, I'm 90% sure that the bass he is using is not "throat bass singing" but true vocal folds subharmonics(in a deeper 2nd or maybe 3rd subharmonic level) Idk if you know what this "true vocal folds subharmonic" technique is but it's kinda the same as throat singing but without using false vocal cords. If you want more precise explanation about how it works and how to do it, I've had a passion about learning all these vocal techniques for 2 years so I can tell you all I know about few techniques used in bass singing and/or beat-box (not all of them). I would love to share about it if you want me to, feel free to ask.
As a beatboxer myself, i think the "... An Alien" part is not using the outward throat bass nor the vibration bass, but instead he was using the "inward bass", where you INHALE to sorta make your throat vibrates more loosely hence the deeper, alien-ish voice.
Honestly, I think you’re gonna need at least a year of dedication to get his bass. It requires daily practice and mouth+nose polyphonics which are unexplored even by beatbox standards. He is probably the only person on earth who can do that sound consistently.
I suggest checking out some inward bass beatboxers like Vocodah/D-low. The technique is simple but fascinating, everybody has their own unique texture due to the sound requiring use of the entire throat.
Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate depending on the tone and beatboxer but often deep basses like “I’m an alien” with speaking are down inwardly instead of outward. Popular “inward bass” beatboxers are Inertia, Vocodah, & Remix.
omg finally, gotta check out vocodah and hippy hehe lul btw what he does is not throat singing, its way more complicated what he does is a poly sub bass which consists of 2 subharmonics (he has a tutorial on his channel) throat singing is used in many different variations tho, the most used iteration is kargyraa (referred to as throat bass) from the kargyraa you can hit a subharmonic to make it whats called vibration bass which is way lower then regular kargyraa, you can achieve this by combining kargyraa with hoomei ( in beatboxing mostly referred as jayton voice) there is so much more vocal basses out there besides those, all the chest and inward basses, vocalised or not false folds, epiglottis etc are all getting a run for their money in bbx that „fizzy sound“ at the end is called liproll and with this there is also alot of variations, its mostly and inhaled bass sound, check out any of napoms vids and youll see
