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To yodel, one sings a scale continuously upwards, until one's voice "breaks" (switches octaves) into one's "head voice" (also known as falsetto in men). This point is one's "voice break". Then one must go back down a note, and up again, over the voice break. This is done repeatedly at a loud volume.

In "Hodl - Ay - EE - Dee", the "EE" switches to the head voice.

Yodeling has developed in two main styles: the traditional Swiss/Alpine style and the country/western style:

• Some good examples of alpine yodeling can be heard in the songs of Franzl Lang , Stefanie Hertel , Zillertaler Schürzenjäger , Ursprung Buam and Mary Schneider .
• Examples of country/western yodeling can be heard by Kerry Christensen , Elton Britt , Wilf Carter, Slim Whitman and Patsy Montana. The most notable country and western yodeler was pioneer star Jimmie Rodgers, who recorded more than a dozen songs under the title "Blue Yodel" with an appended number. Gene Autry was another country-style yodeler.

" Appenzeller " and " Bravourjodler " are yodeling standards which are performed by many different singers.

The best places for yodelling are those with an echoEcho is: Echo character in Greek mythology echo natural phenomenon Echo sounding Forward echo Echo, Minnesota Echo Township, Minnesota Echo Township, Michigan Echo Lake, Washington The rock band Echo & the Bunnymen The 1999 album Echo by Tom Petty the let. They include lakeA lake is a large body of water, usually fresh water, surrounded by land. Large lakes are sometimes referred to as "inland seas" and small seas are sometimes referred to as lakes. For examples (of saline lakes): the Great Salt Lake, but the Dead Sea.s, rocky gorges, anywhere with a distant rock face, the outdoor areas between office buildings, in a canoeA canoe is a relatively small human-powered boat. It is propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, either in a seated position or kneeling on the bottom of t next to a rocky shoreline, or down a long hallway, and best of all, a mountain range.

According to the Oxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary (OED is a comprehensive multi-volume dictionary published by the Oxford University Press. Generally regarded as the definitive dictionary of Modern English, it defines around 500,000 headwords and includes some 2. 5 million i the word yodel is derived from a German word jodeln (originally Bavarian) meaning "to utter the syllable jo".