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From:  eddurbro@c...
Date:  Tue Aug 29, 2000  4:21 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Digest Number 157


>I was wondering: has anyone here, besides SLSers of course, read Seth's
>book? What do you think?

I have the Riggs book and tapes, Singing for the Stars; Born to Sing, book
and tapes by Elizabeth Howard and Howard Austin; Can You Sing a High "C"
Without Straining?", book and CD by Thomas Appell; and Jeffrey Allen's book
and CD, Secrets of Singing.

By far, the most useful for me has been Jeffrey Allen's book and CD Secrets
of Singing. That's not to take anything away from Seth Riggs or the others,
just that the Allen book is 375 pages and the CD is 55 minutes of varied
exercises.

On Rigg's tape the excersices are often very similar. Also, the examples
are often through a huge range with vocal and then the excercise with piano
is exactly the same thing, so there is a tremendous amount of redundancy in
the Riggs set. Perhaps he could have put the vocal on one channel and the
piano on the other. The good point is that he offers advice to the singer
sometimes during the examples. I wish his comments were louder, though.

The Singing for the Stars set I have is copyright 1985. Forgive me if the
CD you are referring to is something different and not a reissue of the
cassette version.

cheers,

Ed Durbrow
Saitama, Japan
http://plaza2.mbn.or.jp/~studioedo/




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