I play about 4 gigs per week, as I was saying. I am practicing these exercises very hard and trying to apply them even harder. Lately I am losing my voice a lot more frequently and I am thinking it is because I am singing the right way some of the time, and my voice is getting tender from not using it the way I did before. Has this happened to anyone else?

Lemme tell you a story.

A year ago, I started seriously taking a look at my musicianship. I started rebuilding my technique on guitar and singing from the ground up. It started off that I noticed small improvements, then larger ones. Then, a month or two ago, I hit a point where I could hardly sing OR play guitar. I was freaked out.

I found that I came to a point where old tehnique and new technique were equally ingrained in me. That is to say that, my body started to naturally do the new technique, but because it wanted to perform the old as well, my technique was falling apart.

For instance, on guitar, I went from anchoring my hand to the body of the guitar to having it float above the strings. I could hardly pick during this '50/50' period.

For singing, there was a point where I couldn't get above an E4, like it was years ago. I would become tired after even light singing.

So I started practicing even more, very carefully making sure not to use the bad technique. I broke the barrier a week ago for singing. I ahve assimilated Jaime's technique and my old technique of pushing and straining is beginning to wither away and be forgotten.

So, while I think you'll have to work longer to experience this drastic changeover, you will get there, and it will suck, but all you need to do is perservere through and you'll come out of it on the road to being a new singer.

alright, thanks for the reply. Just wanted to see if this was something that has happened to anyone else.