this was just me messing around I don't do beatboxing harmonica as much as play the blues and rock BUT here is a beatbox harmonica jam using a natural minor harmonica in B minor :) hope you enjoy
Nice! Smooth out the groove consistently through the piece, get the individual beats poppin off more powerfully and clearly, and you will REALLY have something here. In the myriad of "beatbox harmonica" stuff that gets uploaded to YouTube (and I've listened to most ALL of them), IMO, you've gotten into the very small top tier of harbboxing. Keep going with it, I will be looking at your future vids with great interest!
PS. All folks who are drawn down the path of beatbox harmonica seem to eventually make the same revelation: Natural Minor harps just sound awesome for this thing. Try some other alternate tunings too. You will be surprised at the amount of tonal and melodic diversity you can achieve from the same basic beats just by changing harps... ----------
@ isaacullah Thank you glad you enjoyed it and thanks for all the feedback! Yeah The natural minor harps sound great for beatbox harmonica, I'm very curious to try a melody maker or a harmonic minor... I am also curious VERY curious about getting some powerbender harps.. not for the beatboxing but in general because as you probably know brendan powers style is amazing and so now I would like to play around with the high register like that
Melody makers sound really cool (as do paddy richters). They give you a really smooth upbeat feel without being TOO major like a normal Richter layout. Harmonic minors also sound great and give a great exotic flair. I also have harps tuned to dorian (lowered three and seven draws) and spanish that give great variation in tone. Try low tuned harps too. I have a couple of powerbenders, and they are definitely interesting to play normally, but I haven't noticed anything special that they add to harpboxing.
By the way, when I meant that you were in a small group of folks who I consider able to do the beatboxing thing really well, I went back to my YouTube "like" history and actually counted them up. Turns out that there are only 5 folks who have passed the muster with me in this realm. 6 now including you. I'm particularly limiting this to folks who beatbox and blow harp at the same time (i.e., what I consider to be actual "harpboxing"), and not to those who typically layer beatbox and harp together with loopers or who do duets between a beatboxer and a harmonica (this would widen the list up to about 9 or 10, including you). I put them all together in a short playlist, which I'll embed here (I hope you won't mind me adding this to your thread)...
~Isaac
(Full disclosure, I've not included any of my own harpboxing stuff in there, mainly because I don't wnat to self-judge myself to be amongst these others, but also because I just haven't recorded any good quality video of it. There's just a few clips of me doing it while out busking from over a year ago now... I might have to get busy in the studio again, and try to record some of the harpboxing stuff I've been working on lately!) ----------
