Do you find yourself straining when singing up high? Does your voice crack or do weird things sometimes? Does it tire easily, or feel hoarse, or lose it's "punch" after singing a while?

Before the days of microphones, the old singing teachers produced voices with exceptional range, power, flexibility and expressive beauty. There are, of course, modern singers who also achieve this but most genres these days can depend on amplification, so there is reduced demand for powerful voices that can be heard over an orchestra. Nonetheless, the old methods still work to free the voice from constraining patterns, imparting expressive power through healthy and coordinated responses.