Some of my friends hate yodeling and some get irritated by it but I never listen to their views but to what my heart says to me "You can do it. You can become the first yodeler in the north eastern part of India. Don't give up. Keep trying till you achieve your goal"
I am a 15 year old yodeler girl from Shillong Meghalaya India as well and there is no yodel trainner here in the northeastern part of India cuz no-one can Yodel there so, I actually taught myself how to Yodel by watching yodeling songs videos. Pretty easy if you try it. Trust me. Probably, maybe, I will be the first yodeler in the north eastern part of India . Right now I have exams so bye for now
I'm from India and I discovered Yodeling from the songs of Kishore Kumar. In later years the internet brought to me amazing Yodeling songs. Now I'm learning the technicality of it. Very nicely explained. I'll try to practice more.
awesome Yodel video! I've looked at at least 12 videos to learn to yodel, and i've found this the farbest explained and demonstrated. Also the suggestions make perfect practical sense! I can yodel now!!! :-) THANK YOU!!!
This is the best yodelling tutorial I have seen. I’ve been trying for months and occasionally got it by accident (coming down) but couldn’t work out how to repeat it and couldn’t get it at all flipping up. It was the bit about adding “twang” and explaining how that felt that made all the difference. Thank you so much.
Thank you for this video, especially the thing with the twang seems to be really important. I am still struggling though, it seems to be much harder to deliberately make your voice break if you come from a classically trained background. But I'll keep trying. I find it really lovely to flavour folk songs with an occasional break.
Totally get it. Twang helps, because the stronger you are in both chest and head, the more that voice break comes out. You can try to generally just go louder, because the quieter you go the harder it is to hear the yodel. Something that also seems to help my students sometimes is just trying to sing/yodel like someone who can't sing (without hurting yourself) or imitating Tarzan for example. We often are trained so well, that we have a hard time NOT smoothing out that register transition and kind of go against the thing that makes yodeling sound like yodeling. ;) And I totally hear you on those little tiny yodels in folk songs to give it something special. I love those too.
@@KathrinJakob Thank you so much for this long and really helpful answer. I think I'm making progress by adding some twang to my chest voice and by slowly sliding from chest to head voice, to remember where the break is and to remember to sing a bit louder (when surroundings allow it). And as you mentioned, I try to observe my husband when he imitates Tarzan, as he never had any singing training and his voice just naturally breaks, not necessarily to the right pitch, but it breaks with ease. It's such a cool thing to learn! Have a lovely day and thank you! xx
Thank you. Is there a particular type of voice best suited to yodeling for men? Tenor? Baritone? Is there a best key which is natural to that voice? I've been yodeling along with some songs but it seems only to work with a certain key. Thanks for any thoughts.
That's a great question. I believe starting in the tenor range so you can switch up to your head-voice/falsetto would make it easiest. Ideally the middle point of your two yodel notes (chest vs. head) is right about where your voice naturally breaks or wants to switch over. So the range often isn't too big and I'd say that's pretty normal, otherwise the yodeling probably won't sound as "punchy" and crisp. The key also depends on where the yodel melody is located for each song. If you'd like more personalized help figuring out the ideal range or technique, I offer online lessons and would be happy to guide you further! But hopefully this already helped answer your question a bit. :)
@@KathrinJakob Thank you so much. My great uncle could yodel and I've been fascinated since I was a child. I suspect my voice is more low tenor/baritone so that works against me. If the song (karaoke) is in the right key, I can do certain yodel songs very well. Others are impossible. I look forward to learning and attempting more via yours and other yodel podcasts. Thanks!
Thanks. Very pleased this was one of my recommended videos. Was hoping to come across one at some point. Difficulty finding it om your channel though; is it a one off, or in a playlist somewhere ?
Excuse the late reply to this. I'll have to organize my playlists better, or rather make a few more! Thanks for bringing it up. I'm just getting into some new content ideas. :)
It's "simply" flipping voice registers, it isn't anything unnatural or harmful. An issue I seem to have these days is identifying if I'm using head or chest voice. I seem to have blended them somehow, years ago.
Some of my friends hate yodeling and some get irritated by it but I never listen to their views but to what my heart says to me "You can do it. You can become the first yodeler in the north eastern part of India. Don't give up. Keep trying till you achieve your goal"
That is exciting! Go for it. Shoot for the stars. :))
@@KathrinJakob Thank you so much 🥰
I am a 15 year old yodeler girl from Shillong Meghalaya India as well and there is no yodel trainner here in the northeastern part of India cuz no-one can Yodel there so, I actually taught myself how to Yodel by watching yodeling songs videos. Pretty easy if you try it. Trust me. Probably, maybe, I will be the first yodeler in the north eastern part of India . Right now I have exams so bye for now
I'm from India and I discovered Yodeling from the songs of Kishore Kumar. In later years the internet brought to me amazing Yodeling songs. Now I'm learning the technicality of it. Very nicely explained. I'll try to practice more.
awesome Yodel video! I've looked at at least 12 videos to learn to yodel, and i've found this the farbest explained and demonstrated. Also the suggestions make perfect practical sense! I can yodel now!!! :-) THANK YOU!!!
Wow, that’s amazing! I’m so happy to hear it clicked for you. Keep on yodeling!
This is the best yodelling tutorial I have seen. I’ve been trying for months and occasionally got it by accident (coming down) but couldn’t work out how to repeat it and couldn’t get it at all flipping up. It was the bit about adding “twang” and explaining how that felt that made all the difference. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for your comment. That makes me really happy to hear! Great job!! :)
grateful to your generous giving of so much substantial, critical and enlightening info, like a textbook version. The best teaching on TH-cam.
Awesome job
Thank you! :)
I learned it from Brazil, thank you.
Thank you for this video, especially the thing with the twang seems to be really important. I am still struggling though, it seems to be much harder to deliberately make your voice break if you come from a classically trained background. But I'll keep trying. I find it really lovely to flavour folk songs with an occasional break.
Totally get it. Twang helps, because the stronger you are in both chest and head, the more that voice break comes out. You can try to generally just go louder, because the quieter you go the harder it is to hear the yodel. Something that also seems to help my students sometimes is just trying to sing/yodel like someone who can't sing (without hurting yourself) or imitating Tarzan for example. We often are trained so well, that we have a hard time NOT smoothing out that register transition and kind of go against the thing that makes yodeling sound like yodeling. ;) And I totally hear you on those little tiny yodels in folk songs to give it something special. I love those too.
@@KathrinJakob Thank you so much for this long and really helpful answer. I think I'm making progress by adding some twang to my chest voice and by slowly sliding from chest to head voice, to remember where the break is and to remember to sing a bit louder (when surroundings allow it). And as you mentioned, I try to observe my husband when he imitates Tarzan, as he never had any singing training and his voice just naturally breaks, not necessarily to the right pitch, but it breaks with ease. It's such a cool thing to learn! Have a lovely day and thank you! xx
Love the explanation, will use this video as my reference for this technique as I practice 💝
This video is masterpiece! Changed my singing
Interesting
thank you!
Thank you. Is there a particular type of voice best suited to yodeling for men? Tenor? Baritone? Is there a best key which is natural to that voice? I've been yodeling along with some songs but it seems only to work with a certain key. Thanks for any thoughts.
That's a great question. I believe starting in the tenor range so you can switch up to your head-voice/falsetto would make it easiest. Ideally the middle point of your two yodel notes (chest vs. head) is right about where your voice naturally breaks or wants to switch over. So the range often isn't too big and I'd say that's pretty normal, otherwise the yodeling probably won't sound as "punchy" and crisp. The key also depends on where the yodel melody is located for each song. If you'd like more personalized help figuring out the ideal range or technique, I offer online lessons and would be happy to guide you further! But hopefully this already helped answer your question a bit. :)
@@KathrinJakob Thank you so much. My great uncle could yodel and I've been fascinated since I was a child. I suspect my voice is more low tenor/baritone so that works against me. If the song (karaoke) is in the right key, I can do certain yodel songs very well. Others are impossible. I look forward to learning and attempting more via yours and other yodel podcasts. Thanks!
Thanks. Very pleased this was one of my recommended videos. Was hoping to come across one at some point. Difficulty finding it om your channel though; is it a one off, or in a playlist somewhere ?
Excuse the late reply to this. I'll have to organize my playlists better, or rather make a few more! Thanks for bringing it up. I'm just getting into some new content ideas. :)
Mr. Chandrababu was doing this in some songs.
Leann Rimes in her youth used to yodel. I think yodeling is best suited for females. I’m afraid I’ll hurt myself if I try.
Haha, I don't think you'd hurt yourself. You can't do so much wrong just by trying it. ;)
It's "simply" flipping voice registers, it isn't anything unnatural or harmful.
An issue I seem to have these days is identifying if I'm using head or chest voice. I seem to have blended them somehow, years ago.
It didn't help
This is so boring