the whole thing is a process. if you don't start because your afraid of doing it wrong from the beginning then you will never improve.

you will probably do it wrong at first, but this is the whole point of the practice in the first place, to take you from a low level of skill to a high level over time.

this is the essence of practice, don't get bogged down in this, just go at it. over time you will learn from DOING what you need to change to keep improving. if you don't DO it though you won't ever learn properly. Most of the learning is through DOING.

just dive in there man. I actually believe there is alot to learn from singing in a damaging way. before i learned this stuff i was doing hard rock screaming wihtout technique, hurting my voice. i learned alot from it, and now taht i've learned correct technique (i'm sure there's still alot i'm not doing right) through jamie's fantastic book I have built up that "hard conditioning" through doing it wrong which actually helps in a way. sometimes it's beneficial to let loose (without being stupid)

it's a process!

I've been practicing more strictly again lately, I just wanted to know if practicing these exercises a wrong way would be severely detrimental over time. But, you're right.

Before I got RYV, I would always try to sound similar to singers like Russell Allen, Kip Winger, Jorn Lande, and Stephen Fredrick, but it got me nowhere and my voice was not in very good shape. Then when I got RYV and read about all of the things I had been doing wrong, I was kinda scared to keep practicing unless it was completely right.

But i've started practicing again lately, after reading the book a million times haha, and hopefully everything will start to pull itself together.