Speech Level Singing

• Is suitable for all styles of singing

• Quickly helps you understand the singing process

• Helps you sing with ease in a clear, connected, strong and natural voice

• Eliminates the “breaks”

• Balances the tone throughout your range

• Increases your range

• Eliminates sudden changes of tone or character

• Ensures vocal flexibility

• Ensures your voice will do its job and last the distance

What do singers such as Stevie Wonder, Josh Groban, Kelly Clarkson, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Amy Lee of Evanescense, Michael Bolton, Natalie Cole, Quincy Jones, Luther Van Dross, Bernadette Peters and many more stars have in common?

The Speech Level Singing Technique, developed by Seth Riggs. Speech Level Singing has an unsurpassed track record of training some of the best voices and artists in the music business. It is the technique behind 120 Grammy Award Winners, 4 winners of the New York Metropolitan Opera Awards, numerous Star Search winners, countless Broadway stars, television personalities, and recording artists.

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A Brief Introduction into Speech Level Singing

The goal of Speech Level Singing is to teach you a way of using your voice freely and clearly anywhere in your range, with all of your words clearly understood. This technique guarantees an effortless use of your voice, allowing full and artistic expression with one tone, one connected voice (in other words, no breaks).

The larynx, the bump in the middle of the neck below the chin, rises up during the swallowing process. However, the larynx is also home to the vocal cords. A lifted larynx while singing results in tension, distortion of the words, and disconnection of the voice commonly referred to as a “break”. Most singers in an effort to belt or to sing in their “natural” voice are actually straining, using these outer swallowing muscles to produce their desired sound, resulting in a high, or strained, larynx. This is very damaging to the vocal cords.

Speech Level Singing enables you to keep the larynx relaxed and stable (eliminating the outer muscle activity) as you sing through your entire vocal range--as well as through every vowel and consonant combination. The goal is to train the vocal cords to make the adjustment of balancing with the flow of air. As a result, the singer will produce the proper resonance shifts through their bridges with no breaks or glitches, resulting in a freer tone. This tone will contain a balance of top, middle, and bottom harmonic qualities, like a good stereo system. So, basically the result is that you can sing easily through your entire range with freedom and ease and still be conversational and natural.

Most importantly, the Speech Level Singing technique is versatile. It supports every style of music. It is the foundation upon which all singers can build their own style and unique artistry. We do not teach what to sing, but how to sing-- SLS can be applied to pop, rock, musical theater, country, opera, or the latest hybrid yet to be named.

Speech Level Singing. The Technique of Legends

About Seth Riggs

Seth Riggs is considered by many to be the best and most successful voice teacher in the world. He is certainly the busiest. No other teacher, past or present, has ever matched his phenomenal track record. His students are a veritable "Who's Who" of singers, actors, dancers, and entertainers throughout the world.

Seth Riggs's vocal technique and the methods he uses to teach the technique were forged and tempered by the fierce demands placed on the world's top performers, who must often perform several shows a night - night after night! A great deal of money is always at stake, so his clients' voices must be able to function easily, without strain. It is no wonder that whenever singers come to Los Angeles from other parts of the world, producers, directors and fellow performers send them to see this master vocal technician.

Riggs lectures and conducts Master Classes on vocal technique at colleges and universities all around the world. He also has assisted some of the country's foremost doctors who specialize in organic and functional disorders of the voice in vocal therapy (the elimination of vocal nodules, polyps, and various conditions of fibrosis). In the pragmatic world of show business, where time is money, Seth Riggs is the man professionals turn to for results.