High On A Hill, Was A Lonely Goatherd

Environmental Law exam tomorrow. It isn’t quite as wing-it – able as one might think; there’re some really hardcore judgments in there from our activist judiciary.

But screw that; this is what I want to be learning:

If you’re not familiar with the concept of vocal registers and so forth, or with what exactly yodeling is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yodeling

It’s all about the switch between registers– simply put, your normal chest voice, and a falsetto. The switch must be sharply defined, and the better you can recognise and control it– i.e. the better you’ve trained your voice– the better you yodel!

Of course once you begin to talk about yodeling, you have to mention that old fart Kishore Kumar. (I facking hate Bollywood and its music, but even I know about old KK.)

And look, they even have a blog dedicated to yodeling…

I wanted to end with a video of Krusty’s muhu-hu-ha-ha laugh, but couldn’t find one. So: