hey jaime :) love ur book man its so complete...my question is about jim gillette's vocal power...i read in ur book as well as in this forum that u'd written to practice his exercises softly...been doin that and its working really well...my question is should i practice ALL the exercises softly?wat im tryng to ask is...are the exercises mainly about developing the muscle memory?i mean jim mentions about really pushing from the diaphragm for some of the exercises and adding more power etc

Power is achieve with resonance not by pushing hard. If you need to push hard, then you lack the space required for the voice to reach its natural resonators, the sinus cavities. Practise releasing your voice as you would in a sigh. You shouldn't need more power than that until you start running out of breath and if the rest of the instrument is aligned.

thanx for replying oiselle...as of now im singing raising the soft palate keeping the tongue down and focusing the voice on the hard palate(yes i knw jaime says soft palate)wat are some other ways to increase resonance...im also doing the ultimate breathing workout along with his isolation exercises

Enunciate and sing to the vowels. If the vowels don't sound natural, your colouring the sound by adding tension in your palate, tongue, raised larynx, etc.

It can take a long time to figure out how to deal with resonators.
I think it's all about sensations and experimenting.
All the stuff with rising soft palate, yawning... is to give an idea to where we should direct the air flow. It's all about subtility, you don't have to overdo it and always think about it when you sing, it must be a natural feeling, otherwise you'll tend to tense.
I found that 2 RYV exercices can give some tricks to which sensation you have to feel : the gargling tone and the resonance humming.
Hope it will help.

Just do them soft for a few weeks then get louder as you can handle it:)

thanx man :)