Beatbox Closed and Open Hi Hat

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Andrew Gutterson
How To Beatbox, Beatboxer Entertainment
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About Grey Matter: He has been beatboxing for 5 years, during which he has performed with his a capella group the Muhlenberg Dynamics, and has also performed with Beatboxer Entertainment. If you have any questions about beatboxing you can feel free to contact him via E-mail or Phone<div>About Beatboxer Entertainment: BBE is an evolving media and entertainment company founded by Terry Lewis. BBE has been involved in the entertainment business for almost 5 years and has transformed into a popular form of national entertainment today. The company is headquartered in New York City with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Connecticut, Tennessee, Georgia, Canada, and in 2008 will open offices in Mexico. Beatboxer Entertainment is organized around four main initiatives: Content provider for Live Entertainment, BBE provides companies with the best live entertainment for festivals, corporate events, college events, tours, and more. Content Provider for Digital Media, which consists of online advertising, ecommerce, broadband and mobile services. BBE Consumer Products, which consists of the sale of T-shirts, books and other consumer products including home video products.</div>

Beatbox Closed and Open Hi Hat

This video will show how to do the beatbox closed and open hi hat.

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Andrew Gutterson:Hey what's up? My name is Andrew Gutterson from Beatboxer Entertainment. Today, I am going to be teaching you how to beatbox.

What I will be teaching you right now is the hi-hat and the open hi-hat. The hi-hat sounds like this. It's just a very simple sound and then the open hi-hat sounds like this, which is basically the hi-hat, but elongated. So what you are going to do is you are going to start off with the word 'Tisk'. Then you are going to take the word 'Tisk' and you are going to shorten it. So you have a sound that sounds like. Now in order to get the closed hi-hat you shorten it even further and you get it really, really small until you get something like this. That's your closed hi-hat. Then your open hi-hat sounds like this which is basically taking the 'Tisk' sound or the 'Tiss' and elongating it, so it sounds like something like an open hi-hat. So again, the shortened version is the closed hi-hat which sounds like this and the open hi-hat sounds like this.

After a while of practicing it will sound really good and then you go to something like this which will sound like. So go on and practice that and next I will be teaching you guys to beatbox the Chewy Scratch.

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