Singing for the Stars: A Complete Program for Training Your Voice (Book & 2 CD's)

Singing for the Stars: A Complete Program for Training Your Voice (Book & 2 CD's)
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Worst Book I've Bought

One book, one teacher not nearly enough

Very motivating

Seth Riggs is a Master Teacher

Unusable for people without extensive background

Singing for the Stars: A Complete Program for Training Your Voice (Book & 2 CD's)
Seth Riggs
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback

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Book 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.

Customer Reviews:

Worst Book I've Bought.......2007-09-26

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.

One book, one teacher not nearly enough.......2007-07-26

In my opinion, this book has too much self-congratulation in it. It's the mark of insecurity, isn't it? The voice has registers that you have to learn how to smoothly connect; Riggs is quite right about that. Manuel Garcia, the legendary Spanish teacher, wrote about that 150 years ago! Also, the Englishman, Herbert-Cesari wrote brilliantly about these vocal qualities in the 1950's.

Life is short and art is long; and no one teacher or school of thought has a corner on the market of wisdom. Seth Riggs is most likely one of thousands of people on the planet who could give you helpful feedback about your voice. The main thing is to start singing along with studying. Then you learn by doing! Remember a singer sings and doesn't need anybody's approval or permission to do so.

You accumulate knowledge and skill by networking with others, not by getting addicted to hypnotic suggestions that an "exclusive" method guaratees success, or becoming in turn addicted to the personality of a charismatic teacher who may, in part, exploit your dreams; or you may exploit the teacher because you want to dream.

In any case, a real living teacher that you can afford to see regularly can help much. Seek knowledge without looking for magic-wand, short-term solutions or letting yourself be dominated by any fanaticism regarding method. Whether or not you achieve something depends on yourself in the end.

I live and work in Europe as a professional singer. I've sung opera, art songs, negro spirituals, jazz, Irish, etc...

I've also had a chance to get to know a lot of great singers. And since they've walked the walk and not just talked the talk, they have much good to say. They have integrated what they've been taught by others, but also what they learned themselves. They're superteachers!

Singing is about soul...and connectedness to the music and the words. It's also a lot of work to keep the voice healthy and stretched, and the rest of your body too. I have studied in my life with at least 20 teachers. They've all taught me something valuable. I've taken classes at universities, read scores of books and had countless conversations with fellow musicians about music. There's just so much to learn and nobody will be or should pretend to be your fairy god mother. It's a life-long, self-motivated project qua passion.

Very motivating.......2007-07-16

Bought the book to supplement a 'living teacher', and am not disapointerd in the presentation of the concepts. Honestly, most things are better done with a living teacher, but this is good extra material.
Really found the incesant placement of famous people's pictures with their testimonials to be insulting. Name dropping does not a good teacher make unless he/she is teaching name dropping.

Seth Riggs is a Master Teacher.......2007-06-08

The lessons in this collection would cost thousands if you were to pay a voice teacher for them. Seth Riggs offers them for a great price and you can use them forever! This is the best deal!

Unusable for people without extensive background.......2007-03-26

I found the CD unusable because of the speed of the exercises. A friend to whom I gave the book had a similar experience -- frustration, boredom, no results. I had high hopes for this product when I bought it, but I have gone back to Roger Love's book (Set Your Voice Free). I understand that he was a student of Riggs, and perhaps that is the source of his ideas; but I at least found his book much, much more usable. I have taken singing lessons since then from a professional voice coach, and I must say that her approach (which has given me excellent results) is a lot more accessible than Riggs, as well. So, if you are a semi-professional singer with years of experience and the ability to sing very fast scales, this book may be quite useful. For other people, I would say strongly: give it a miss.

Singing for the Stars: a Complete Program for Training Your Voice

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Singing for the Stars: a Complete Program for Training Your Voice
Seth Riggs
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6AW2C

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the tourist gaze:leisure and travel in contemporary societie.......2000-05-30

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Very insightful.......2005-11-18

This book provides a very insightful view of sport. The book does not male bash as another reviewer suggested. Instead it provides a glimpse into various areas of sport and the problems that exist. It provides a full range of views and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I highly recommend this book!

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This book is one of the worst cases of feminist propaganda and male bashing that I have ever had the chance to review. This book is loaded with problems that are present in society and the author seems to make sure that it is blamed on sports and men who participate in sports. If you where looking for a well balanced text on sports look else where because you will find no other opinion but the authors and the feminist in this book. The major reason that I do not like this book is because it blames men for everything that is wrong and makes sports out to be just this real evil event we participate in. Much of the information in this book is dated as well with much of the case studies done primarily in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, which makes much of the information irrelevant. It ignores any other point of view and is completely biased and is a dishonest book that passes its information off as absolutes but rarely backs up any of its claims. This is a Feminist propaganda book plain and simple and should not be considered anything else.

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My students use this text as an introduction to the scholarly world of sports. This is not a collection of empirical studies, but nor is it merely an anecdotal bashing of sport as an institution.

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