Learn To Yodel by Cathy Fink and Tod Whittemore - this is my #3 recommended Yodel course. This course has been around for a while and I suspect it’s the one that Taylor Ware used when she learned how to yodel. Apparently Bette Midler used it many years ago to learn how to yodel for her ill-fated movie JINXED. That yodel at the opening of the movie was the only good thing about it. Click the title to find Learn To Yodel at Amazon. You can often find this course on eBay! It’s my number three choice because, while you certainly can learn how to yodel using it, I didn’t find the instructions fun and they were too formal for my taste. For those of you who are muscians, the boook includes musical key chords and musical notation. The “book” that I got is a spiral bound photocopy. Still, you can learn how to yodel from this course. (No tricks on how to find your “break.)
How To Yodel The Cowboy Way by Rudy Robbins and Shirley Fields. This is my #4 recommended Yodel course. A bit rough around the edges but here are a couple of old-timers who know what they’re doing and they can teach you to yodel. I was thrown off occasionally but some off-key notes, but still it’s interesting listening to these long-time veterans. The book is soft bound and done in a professional manner with musical notation and lyrics. The best part is Shirley’s closing song, obviously recorded a while back, The Man In the Moon Is A Yodeler. (No tricks on how to find your “break”.) The paragraph title will take you to Amazon to find this course or try eBay! where it often shows up.
How To Yodel
How to Yodel by Rusty Hudelson and Tania Moody. This is an older video and usually shows up on eBay as a VHS cassette. They seem to have disappeared from the net - their site doesn’t work well. I really enjoyed this course and they include the “trick” to find your break...so important! It’s a pleasure to listen to this Father-Daughter duet perform together and it’s worth searching out just for that. Oh, and you can learn how to yodel from this video. (Tania is very cute in her black and white cow patterned outfit!)
Born To Yodel
David Bradley recorded this video just before Roy Rogers died. Roy appears in the video and performs a quick little yodel while being interviewed by David. Worth the search just for that. David is a terrific performer and if you ever have a chance to see him perform...it will be a great moment of your life. His yodel training works but the highlights of this VHS video (if you can find it - David seems to have disappeared) are short clips (far too short) of his performing and a duet he does with his dad (which is awesome!). (No tricks on how to find your “break”.) Sometimes shows up on eBay!
