Beatbox Sound Index
Where accounts of a sound disagree, both are kept, because the disagreement is part of the record.
Beatbox has more sounds than it has agreed names for. One beatboxer's click is another's rimshot; a technique explained one way in a tutorial is imaged differently in a lab.
Every claim on the site carries a source: a paper, a beatboxer's own tutorial, or a community chart. The source appears beside the claim it supports, so a reader can weigh it. Where two accounts of the same sound disagree, both are kept.
Two videos about naming sounds
A beatboxer and a vocal coach
“We don't really have a particular convention of naming names and naming sounds. If there's a convention, it's usually because that's what it feels like or that's what it sounds like. Not super scientific.”
Justin Tan explains that beatboxers have no consistent convention for naming sounds, and that where there is one it usually reflects what a sound feels like or sounds like. Elizabeth Zharoff meets the same problem in her research on extreme vocals, where the artists she asks each give a different name for the same sound. She hosts the programme, on which Tan teaches beatboxing. The Charismatic Voice, 13:26 ↗, and Tan’s own channel ↗.
A game show nobody can answer
Hippy plays a sound on his beatbox game show and asks for its name. The answers are inward OD bass, regular OD bass, inward OD, an Azel vortex bass and vocalised click rolls, and none of them is right. He gives the answer as hollow inward click roll, and says he found it by reading the names in tutorials and on websites. So I Made A Game Show, 58:05 ↗.