First thank you Jaime! Thanks to you I have been able to get to a 3 1/2 octave range. I have hit F4 clearly a few times. The problem that I have is that I have an instictive urge to swallow the note when I go into head voice. It gags the note. If I try to push past that, I feel strain, and I stop. The times that I have made it to the high notes have been right after I practiced the siren. I have sang high where I had no strain or pressure, but sometimes I feel like I am singing like Frankie Valie. I have done the bullfrog, but I probely should do it more often. Will this help the problem? Is this more of a mental thing that will go away with practice or am I just doing something wrong? I am hopefull that with practice everything will just kind of work its way out.

Imagine there is a huge orange, better yet a grapefruit sitting in the back of your throat as you go up in your range. Don't let your larynx come up.

Also don't look up or reach up for higher notes. Think "down" upon the note, almost as if a small version of you is riding right on top of that floating core of resonance and you are being pushed down on it through the top of your head by a big finger that's using you and the core of resonance as a button; The push button effect from the top upon your core causes you to automatically which causes you push down like going to the bathroom...And it all falls in place ;)

JV

Thanks guys! You were right, I was forgetting to go low to get high. That did the trick. The resonance excersizes helped a lot too.