Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 96 pages
- Published by: Gibbs Smith, Publisher July 19, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1423602137
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1423602132
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Book Dimensions:
5.9 x 5.7 x 0.4 inches
- Weighs: 4.8 ounces
Product Description
How to Yodel offers the lessons, tips, techniques, and music you need to get that long-awaited degree in the high art of yodeling, while finally being able to bask in the attention of adoring fans and lovesick coyotes.
Back Cover Copy
Are your tonsils bored?
Are you ready for standing ovations instead of walking ovations?
Is your cattle call more like a cat call?
You're in luck! Inside this book is a simple but surefire way to make yourself heard. It's time to yodel! World-famous Yahooer and yodeling guru Wylie Gustafson teaches fun and easy lessons in the high art of yodeling, with a big dose of hilarity along the way. You'll learn the secrets of great yodelers, how to find your voice break, and even some fancy tongue tricks. Before you know it, you'll be belting out yodels that would make a Bavarian goatherd proud!
Yodeler, songwriter, rancher, and horseman Wylie Gustafson leads the musical outfit known as Wylie & the Wild West. The group has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Grand Ole Opry, the National Folk Festival, and the Lincoln Center. Wylie lives on and runs a working ranch near Dusty, Washington, with his wife, Kimberley.
Reader Reviews
I'm a big fan of yodeling and new yodeling recordings are relatively hard to find. "How to yodel" recordings are even more rare. I was thrilled when I saw that Wylie Gustafson was releasing an instruction cd on how to yodel. I preordered right away. After hearing the CD, I declared it a winner. Wylie is a superior cowboy yodler and I've always enjoyed his sassy yodel sound. Wylie keeps things simple and provides both instructional yodels and sing along tracks so you can practice the songs once you learn the basics. He includes one lesson that other yodeling instructions often leave out. That is, how to find the break in your voice. I like Wylie's technique for learning the voice break a lot and think it's one of the most effective tricks I'ver heard. It consists of "toggling" between your chest voice and your head voice. I think anyone could find the break if they use this technique. I partucularly enjoyed the little book that comes with the CD and it is very humorous. It contains some history and is a general reference guide for all things "yodel". I loved Robert Payne's very skillfull and funny illustrations that permeate the pages of the book. Wylie is up front about this being an introductory level effort and that his aim was to keep it simple. I found myself wishing for more though. But, I'm a more advanced ameture yodeler and pretty much have all of the Wylie's yodels covered. This isn't meant to detract from the very fun instructions that Wylie has provided and beginners should buy it right away. I still favor Kerry Christensen's You 2 Can Yodel (but, I favor alpine yodeling) as the best yodeling instruction CD out there. Having said that, I highly recommend Wylie Gustafson's HOW TO YODEL as a terrific, fun, approach to learning the art of yodeling.
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