Practise your timing. Then the next day, practise your timing some more. And when you have it down pretty well, practise your timing some more.

I have always maintained that timing is about 85 per cent of ANYTHING you do on stage — acting, singing, playing, whatever. A lot of pretty mediocre voices by most standards have gone a long way on phrasing (which is just vocal timing). Elvis, Jerry Lee, Ray Charles, almost all the old blues men and many, many others are good examples.

cheers,

david