Yes to all the good advice up there. It IS a bit like golf, and one of the reasons I don't golf is because there are just too damned many things to remember. I've been assured that at some point, it all becomes automatic, but Ijust haven't been able to push through all the minutiae to get to the automaticity.

However, I've been singing so long and have been trained so much that all this advice on vocal production mostly seems automatic to me now. So ... keep going. And I'd also add a couple of things:

* If you're someone (like me) to whom the advice to practice sounds the death-knell for any activity, don't practice. Just sing, sing, sing every day in a conscious way for pleasure. Sing for joy and for creation.

* Think about being a bird lighting on your tone rather than being a desperate YOU trying to reach UP to it. Imagine that your song is a silver thread being spun out of you and out into the audience.

* Sing from kindness rather than fear.

* Before I perform, I ask the Creator/Muse/Spirit to help me get my ego out of the way so I can be in service to the song, to the music. It isn't about us, the singers, although it's hard to remember that sometimes when we're so afraid we'll screw up these songs we love so much. It's actually about communicating these songs we love so much to others so they can love them, too. Think of yourself as a big piece of concrete conduit through which the universe is sending these songs to your "audience."

And be sure and come back and let us know how it's going/has gone!

Buena suerte, WyoWoman