most important step in singing

What do you mean by that?

If you mean you want to sing instead of trying to sing I'd like the answer as well. All kinds of weird accents creep in when I sing, pretty hard to use my own voice.

i find singing an effort, not something thats relaxing, so yeah someone tell me the secret to!!! :D

what i mean is the voice sounds stuck somewhere, it doesn't flow freely...in other words the fullness is missing, and volume is not there as well.

try lying on your back with your feet set apart, life your pelvis off the floor and move your feet around until there at the perfect placement for doing that, then put your hands on your hips so your thumbs are on the back of your hip bone, breath into there. feel the difference? how suddenly your stomach inflates easily? thats where you should sing from, the lips enunciate the sound. and your throat positions it for the high notes only, mainly. my freind once says he imagines there is a direct line from his stomach to out of his mouth and the sound flows through with no interference from anything else, he also imagines his words hitting the wall opposite, that gives him clear pronunciation, power and projection.

sounds good to me!!!! thanx man

I've been playing guitar for 28 years, I can't quiet seem to set it free like Jimi Hendrix or Martin Taylor yet!

depends what we all mean by 'set it free' when i think of it i think of power and volume without being forced...