Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33361 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-08
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Something all voice teachers should read!

I do agree that it is way too full of testimonials. But regardless, the method is the best out there and the exercises on the cd are great. The philosophy is that there really is no distinction between the chest and head voice. ( and all good voice teachers know that there are even more changes) It's kind of like an automatic car if you think about it (or even a stick once you know how to drive it and it's just instinct) That there are shifts that take place in your throat but it's none of your concern. The more you think about it, the more prominent they will be and this method teaches you to use your whole range smoothly. People get so caught up in what's "high" and what's "low" but dynamics are what makes the voice interesting to listen to so the smoother the tone, the more flexibility you have. Ahh, I could go on forever.

It's a good guide and as a book, it's a very good lesson.
My best advice as a vocal coach is to find a teacher that teaches exactly the genre you are interested in learning. I was first trained in classical, then jazz, then finally rock and pop. That's where I took off and that's what I teach now. Most of the students that come to me are in rock bands and many have had previous lessons with classical teachers who taught them to sing classically which is really different from singing pop music. For instance, the breathing is VERY different. You don't need nearly as much stored up for pop music.

If you want to sing rock, find a rock singing teacher and preferably one that is familiar with this method of speech level singing as this is the best method out there. And watch out, there are many stubborn teachers out there who will teach you to sing how they sing which will only work if you have the same tone.

Good luck everyone.

great singing book
I bought this as a present to my spouse. She loves it so i am happy too. Unfortunately i know very little about this topic, but i'm told it isn't for beginners. Cheers

Worst Book I've Bought
This is one of the worst purchase I've ever bought ... I ignored some of the negative reviews that Seth's book got, and bought it anyway just to give it a try.

Singing For The Stars have around 100 pages more or less (don't remember cause I gave the book away 3 days after I bought it), and the fist half of the book is NOTHING but SELF-PROPS (I'm NOT exaggerating). The other half of the book have some informations and some, yet again, self-props. To put it all together, almost every page in this book have some kind of self-props. I skipped all the self-props and finished the book in about 15 minutes. I also found it funny how Seth criticized other competing books and he ended up doing the same thing ... throwing out things without fully explaining it.

The CDs are just ok. This book CD combo is really an exercise program to help you increase your vocal range, so IMHO it will not make you a better singer. To sing good, you'll need more than just hitting the notes. The exercises in his CDs are incomplete ... it goes up in scales but not down.

For beginners: I would not buy this book. Go get voice lessons. This book (even though it have some useful exercises), will NOT make you a better singer. A good personal instructor can and will make you a better singer. If you don't want to spend the $ for an instructor, then search for "voice lessons" on Google & you'll find plenty of lessons for FREE. And yes, these free lessons on the internet (youtube for examble) have the same exercises as Seth's CDs.

For advanced singer: I noticed some reviews said this book is really for the intermediate/advance singers. Probably true ... but if you're at that level, you'll either can play some kind of instruments or know someone that does. You can record variety of scales on your PC and burn it to a CD for around 20c or less (if you buy blank CDs in bulk). Do it yourself CD will not only have better coverage than Seth's CD but will cost less.