All Consonants can be organised by Manner, Place and in some cases voice. To learn more about Manner and Place go back to the main phonetics page. 

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Here is a list of all consonants, with the IPA, common spellings and the manner and place of articulation. 

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You will also note that some have 'voiced' or 'voiceless'.

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This is the difference between simply forcing air, or making a hum or vibration with the vocal cords. You can see that the only difference between /p/ and /b/ is the 'voice'

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If you try to pronounce /p/ whilst adding voice, you will produce the sound for /b/ and saying /b/ with no voice gets /p/.