What do Michael Jackson, Anita Baker, Natalie Cole and hundreds of other professionals have in common? They all study voice with Hollywood's leading vocal coach, Seth Riggs. You can learn to sing like the pros with this complete program for training the voice.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The content is good although too much space is given to testimonials, and more space should be given to explanation and theory.
The CD is very well laid out with instructions from the author, a singer demonstrating the exercises and the exercises themselves laid out on different tracks, which make it easy to skip to the essential bits. You can practice while driving for example.
I have been getting speech singing vocal training for over a year. Unless you are already a well trained singer with good technique, you should not use this type of course without also getting lessons. A vocal coach can identify how to improve tone, breathing etc and point out technique errors. It is so easy to damage your voice by using incorrect technique or overdoing the exercises.
After using this for a few days and then applying the technique to sing along to a recording, I was able to do so without straining and hitting higher notes than usual with much less effort, which was amazing. I feel that I am now on my way to a voice that I did not dare to dream was possible.
The principles behind this book involve using exercises which educate you to sing without the larynx rising up which actually interferes with good singing, and to sing with a connected voice from chest voice into head voice, without breaking into falsetto.
The second CD is more about applying the exercises and producing the speech level singing tone, and runs through song examples using those passage areas with very useful tips to avoid splattering the sound. This is a great investment, which I highly recommend.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The technique is awesome, allowing you to sing without strain, and I doubt the validity of the other reviewer's claim on Madonna's voice. I couldn't find any information on the actual event and if it was true, there are many other factors that could have lead to it.
Anyways, the book is very infromative and is great in addition to lessons, but you *NEED* to get a CERTIFIED teacher (it does make a BIG difference, I've had two teachers before who didn't get me anywhere and then one lesson with a certified and I'm already a few notes into my head voice). It's really easy to "do" the exercises wrong.
The book is extremely informative and the only reason I'm giving it at a 4/5 is because there are WAY too many testimonials from singers.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By mark jensen
Format:Paperback
Having gone through pretty much every current book on the topic of improving your singing technique, I can tell you that this book is the only one worth buying. The Rock Singer's Survival Handbook a close second, written with the right spirit and is worth reading, especially the concepts on pitch and overall voice health, but it makes singing seem harder than it really is, which is why Seth's approach is so great. Singing is simple and you already know how to do it, you just need to stop trying to push your voice to doing things it won't. You know what your voice can and can't do, and the displine is more in accepting and maximizing this than doing "breathing exercises" or developing "mental pictures" of your tone or lord knows what else.
Granted, all the praise lavished on Seth on practically every page is purely nauseating, but let him have that, and learn from what he has to say. He didn't get to be the most in demand vocal instructor by doling out crap. The CD's that come with it are awesome, and will really make you work. Overall, a bargain at twice the price.
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Singing for the stars
this book has a lot of great information on the proper singing technique.
highly recommend for any vocalist who is just looking to better themselves. Read more
highly recommend for any vocalist who is just looking to better themselves. Read more
Published on Mar 20 2011 by K. Gibbs
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book
Since I had already taken extensive singing lessons from a vocal intructor trained by Seth in this singing method; I was thrilled to come across the book that had "ALL"of the vocal... Read more
Published on July 11 2010 by Linden M Morris
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, But Definitely Overrated
It's not that Seth doesn't know what he's talking about, it's that he thinks he knows everything.
This method will NOT turn an untrained singer into an Opera singer. Read more
Published on Mar 21 2004 by Pedro G. Weiner
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I think Tom McKinney should have given it five stars
I have been trying to figure out why one of the commentators on here, Tom McKinney, only gave this book/CD a 3 star rating, and yet claims, "This book is the best introduction... Read more
Published on Mar 20 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent systematic approach to singing!
Seth Riggs' speech level singing technique is incredible, it can dramatically improve the singing voice of any motivated person. Read more
Published on Feb 8 2004 by David Mellish
1.0 out of 5 stars
Will ruin your voice - look at what happened to Madonna
Well, this "techinque" book is shakey at best. For serious people in voice, as everyone knows, there needs to be diaphragm breathing. Read more
Published on July 22 2003
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very worthwhile
I bought this book a few years ago after joining a community choir. I noticed an improvement in range and control in a few weeks. Read more
Published on July 1 2003 by David J. Brown
4.0 out of 5 stars
good
good. Not so bad. But the testimonies from prior students is pretty pathetic and excessively annoying
Published on April 25 2003 by J. Kwong
4.0 out of 5 stars
Could have been easier...
This is the first voice book I've read, but I'll probably end up reading some others. I have a musical background, have played guitar and piano for years, but just recently... Read more
Published on Feb 9 2003 by C. Fletcher
3.0 out of 5 stars
user friendly
great method with a great explanation of how it should work. demonstrations were superb, but is was set up kind of random in it's arrangement of exercises. Read more
Published on Jan 13 2003
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