Most of the time we associate Yodels with country music, or some kind of folk sound from the hills of Austria (like in "The Sound of Music").

But we hear yodels in some of the most dense and current pop music by artists like Adele, Sam Smith, Yebba, James Bay, Demi Lovato, Beyonce, and more....

Yodels are simply an abrupt shift between thick vocal folds and stiff vocal folds. Or some might say a shift between chest and falsetto. There is a little moment of instability and even a brief millisecond of detuning that happens with yodels. Once again, this creates a break in texture that even autotune won't eliminate.

Yodels can go from chest voice to falsetto, or the other way around, from falsetto to chest!

When you first practice this, take it to extremes... keep the pitches wide, and the changes in your thick to stiff folds really dramatic. It helps with the learning part of it all.

However, as soon as you get those flips happening, you'l want to play with softening them and finding a really stylish option for these breaks!