The part "pushing my speaking voice instead of accessing your singing voice" What exactly do you mean with that? Personally I considered either lowering it an octave or going into head voice but neither seemed to sound any better. Could you try clarifying that a bit more?
About a month ago I started practicing singing. Low notes come pretty natural to me but the higher up I go the more I struggle.
Without going into headvoice a song like this (californication) is pretty much my limit.
Any tips for how I could get it to sound less strained and pointers to what I...