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How to Yodel: By Wylie Gustafson Photography: 6 x 6 in, 96 pages. Paperback Price: $10.00 |
Now available as a Kindle Edition from Amazon.com! 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. In no time, you’ll be the next Vocal Virtuoso...Pavarotti of the Plains...Epiglottis Goddess...Yodeling Superstar! Simple instructions, illustrations, and examples combined with the accompanying CD make it easy to learn the fine art of the yodel. Renowned country music artist and original Yahoo® yodeler Wylie Gustafson shares lessons, trivia, quotes, history, and other tidbits about yodeling, complete with hilarious sidebars. —Comes complete with CD with yodeling examples and music.
As Reviewed in Rick's Roundup
Who knows if it’s anatomically possible to teach The Yodel and keep the tongue firmly in cheek! But “world famous Yahoo-er” Wylie Gustafson sure is the guy to give ‘er a go. Oh never fear! The real information to get the novice rolling is actually in his book w/CD “How To Yodel (Lessons To Tickle Your Tonsils).” It’s tucked in around the craziness. In fact, Wylie will make you put the epiglottal pedal to the yodel modal metal here before he’s through!
After the obligatory (and wise) warning about being away from prying ears as you begin, you begin. It’s interesting to note that champion yodeler David Bradley shuns the use of “little old yodel lady” type of words in his instruction videos. Champion yodeler Gustafson let’s the old girl rip…and splashes “idle” into the soup too! Included is everything from proper breathing and warm-ups to showy flourishes designed to dazzle the most jaded yodel judges (a relatively common phenomenon, by the way)! You even get to karaoke-yodel right on some of Wylie’s most famous yodel songs, sans Wylie, and the book is loaded with tidbits, history, help, whereabouts of fellow fanatics and lots of patented Wylie goofiness.
What can we say? It’s actual, it’s factual, it’s wacky, it’s Wylie…it’s worth it!!
Book w/CD: $9.95 USD from Gibbs Smith Publisher, P.O. Box 667, Layton, UT 84041 or www.gibbs-smith.com and $10.00 (watch those nickels) from www.wylieww.com
Rick Huff
As Reviewed in CowboyPoetry.com Wylie Gustafson of Wylie & the Wild West's new, flat-out fun book and CD, How to Yodel: Lessons to Tickle Your Tonsils, may start an international yodel revolution. Described by the publisher, "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...," it delivers on all fronts. Margo Metegrano, editor |
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