Telluride, Colorado
A family wedding took us to the San Juan mountains and Telluride, Colorado. The former bustling silver mining town, turned ski resort, is nestled at the end of a portion of highway 145. The town, at around 8500 feet, challenges your fitness with even a few stairs, but it only takes two or three days to acclimate.
Unlike during the winter months, the solid Swiss gondolas run all day for free. This provides the opportunity to ride up and hike down a number of different trails, though yodel opportunities on this side of the mountain require a bit more effort to reach. This means hiking up more. Hike up to Bridal Veil Falls and bounce some yodels off the rock faces. Nice. At the top of the falls you can see the historic power station, and continue on to more hiking trials. |
New York, New York
In 2013 as part of the array of brilliant musical performances on the Late Night Show, Jimmy Fallon paid homage to one of our favorite music forms, yodeling. After a tough day in the office pounding out the jokes, Jimmy needed a break. Taking breaks on the roof of a skyscraper as people do, the late night host found Brad Pitt and began a yodeling conversation. These two very accomplished yodelers discard their cell phones and begin to yodel.
The interesting part here is the location. They are on some of the tallest skyscrapers in Manhattan. The concrete buildings are acting as mountain rock faces from which to bounce off the echos. So how many times did it echo? Does it echo up there or is the wind too strong? Great question. |
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Achensee, Austria
This place is a yodel paradise. Mountains surround this beautiful alpine lake. To learn more about the region visit the web site. My wife and I stayed at the Fischerwirt Hotel. Large rooms with bathrooms, balconies with views of the lake, fresh lake trout at the award winning traditional restaurant await you. The Hotel offers very reasonable rates.
The site is all German, however you can copy the text and paste it in a translator. Also, you can use the google translator to translate the site. Google also offers translations of sites when you search and find them. Next to the title of the page click on translate this page. |
What Yodelers are Saying
Dear Norman Hello!
We are Class 3 at Gotham Primary School Nottinghamshire England We are 6 and 7 years old. We are reading about Heidi. We found you on the Heidi web site. We have been learning to yodel. All of us can do level 3 really well. Some of us could do level 4 a bit. None of us could do level 5 - but we enjoyed listening to it ! Could we have a 'junior' certificate please to add to our Heidi display? --Thank you! From Class 3 and Mrs Lymn-Brewin (who is level 3 too!) |
Norm--
You are the coolest!!! I have always wanted to learn how to yodel! Thank you. Norm! We love this site!!!!! My office workers and I have been practicing in the office. We sailed through 1-4, but now that we are on the last lesson 5, it's really hard!!!! Any suggestions, it seems too fast to learn???? --tim |
Moab, UtahWho knew our recent mountain bike vacation would end up being a scouting trip for yodelops (yodel opportunities). Moab, Utah has been growing as a vacation destination for mountain bikers, Jeep drivers and hikers. As I discovered, however, yodelers should put this destination on their calendar.
We stayed at a fantastic B&B, the Cali Cochitta, where our hosts David and Kim made us feel at home. The breakfasts kept us riding and hiking all week. The rides were spectacular and very diverse. One day you were rolling down not-too-difficult Jeep trails, the next day you were giving everything to make it to the top of petrified dunes. The hiking was unbelievable. Any of the hikes took you to great overlooks and expansive canyons. |
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Shower, Anywhere
Because showers aren't usually symmetrical cubes, some of those sound waves travel farther than others. That, along with the fact that ceramic doesn't absorb sound well, gives your singing the effect of being stretched out, or reverberated, meaning your voice "hangs" in the air longer than usual, giving it an embellished, extra-rich sound. Like you needed one.
When yodeling in the shower the reverberation helps the voice sound full because it is bouncing off so many surfaces. In short you sound fantastic. So showers aren't just for singing but perfect yodel studios. Take a cue from Tim and let that yodel rip. |