How I Went From Straining Beginner to Finally Unlocking My High Notes

I was standing backstage wondering if my voice would get through the next song. Singing shouldn’t feel this hard, I thought. When the high notes came, I did what I’d always done — pushed harder — I choked and my voice gave out.

Walking off stage that night, I knew something was seriously wrong with the way I was singing. How could I possibly audition for another show or accept an offer to sing at a concert with the fear this could happen again.

Like most beginners, I spent years copying the singers I admired.

I pushed harder, used more air, more volume, more force — thinking that’s what “good singing” was. All it really did was build tension in my throat. I could hit some high notes, but they always came with strain and fatigue.

Even after taking lessons, singing still felt heavy. The harder I tried, the worse it got. I started avoiding high songs completely and stuck to low melodies because they felt safer.

Deep down, I kept wondering:

Why does singing feel like a fight for me, when other singers make it look so easy?

 

That question became the turning point.I began studying vocal technique, determined to understand what I was missing – but what I found shocked me. The best singers weren’t using more force at all.  Their voices would fill concert halls for hours on end, night after night without strain or fatigue.

They were using coordination. They were singing with release. They were applying techniques that had been around for centuries — techniques I had never been taught. It felt like a light finally switched on.

I realised that singing higher wasn’t about pushing harder — It was about letting go of the tension holding my voice down.

From that moment I started unlearning the habits that were sabotaging me and replacing them with a new way of coordinating my voice. It wasn’t always easy. There were days I wanted to give up, days I wondered if my voice was broken, or if I just wasn’t meant to sing. But slowly, my voice began to change.

The strain faded.  The cracks smoothed out. My high notes started to feel free.

I developed vocal systems that helped me sing higher without force, fatigue, or fear — and eventually those same systems allowed me to sing professionally, to audition with confidence and step onto a stage knowing that my voice would last an entire show or gig.

Once I experienced that transformation, I knew I had to share it. For the last 20 years, I’ve been helping singers unlock the same freedom I discovered — using the exact coordination-based methods that first changed everything for me.

You don’t need to spend years figuring this out the hard way like I did. The right coordination can unlock your voice faster than you think — and that’s exactly what I’ll guide you through in this 8-week program.