BEATBOX DICTIONARY · WELCOME
EVERY SOUND DESERVES A NAME.
A beatbox dictionary built by the Offbeat Beijing community — sounds, techniques, and how to actually make them.
About beatbox
Beatbox is music made with the mouth alone: hits, presses, inhales, snaps, flutter-tongues — a trained person can conjure a whole drum section in an afternoon.
This dictionary started from a simple observation: many sounds have no names, so every conversation ends in gestures and descriptions. So we wrote them down — a name, a pronunciation, a way in, and the usual traps.
What you can do here
Look up sounds
Filter by airflow, difficulty, type, frequency and articulation to find the one you want to learn.
Learn the technique
Each entry breaks down posture, mouth shape, airflow, practice order and common mistakes.
Watch a demo
Links to teaching videos — seeing it once beats reading it ten times.
Study combos
Chains that stitch several sounds together are recorded here too.
Join the contributors
Nobody wrote this alone. The sound you know best, the mistake you keep making, the combo you always use — send it in and it goes live under your name.
Submit the first sound →