"What most teachers don’t understand is that you don’t need to think about twenty different things every time you open your mouth. And you don’t need to study singing for more than a few weeks before you begin to experience positive results…It doesn’t matter whether you sing Pop, Rock, Opera, or Musical Theater. You should sing with a technique that allows you to just relax and concentrate on performing- which is what it’s all about anyway, right?"

- 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.

The Speech Level Singing (SLS) 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.

A Brief Introduction into Speech Level Singing

Speech Level Singing is a way of using your voice that allows you to sing freely and clearly anywhere in your range, with all your words clearly understood. Since you are not learning what to sing but rather how to sing you can apply this technique to any type of music.

The 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.