Thanks for the link. I'll read through that site generally.
I stopped going to lessons for two reasons:
1. My teacher was a "Mrs Robinson" as in from "The Graduate." Lessons were at her house. She'd keep me late and then when my wife would call she'd delight in the jealousy.
and
2. Once she'd showed me that it's the sinuses that resonate to produce a head voice, I tried it and didn't like my head voice. I figured it's like a guitar, you know. Some are Matons and some a little ukeleles bought from the supermarket. I just figured that my sinuses were usually always blocked (which I'd never noticed before because I could breathe through my nose still). So I never get a good tone unless I've just had hot tea or whatever. It's like trying to get a good sound out of guitar half-full of water. I just feel pressure behind the cheeks.
Apparently professionals get their sinuses scraped out of gunk and polyps, but I asked my Dr and he said it just comes back.
Yeah we did passagio. Apparently it gets smoother as you go over it again and again. Fun thing is that with a teacher you laugh at yourself when it sounds like your voice is breaking again.
I'll have to take singing up with a different teacher. She was a good teacher, just, um, flirty. I never realised how many songs had sexual overtones before!
