>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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