Singing Technique: Speech Level Singing vs Estill vs Complete Vocal Technique
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Singing Technique: How to Choose Between Speech Level Singing vs Estill Voice Training vs Complete Vocal Technique
I love to say that for every voice teacher there is a different vocal technique.
That's because as voice teachers, we're always coming up with new innovative ways of approaching the voice.
But there are a few massively popular techniques that tend to produce results very quickly.
I wanted to take some time today to discuss the 3 most popular singing techniques: Speech Level Singing, Estill Voice Training and Complete Vocal Technique.
First, we'll talk about some of the hallmarks of each of these techniques. Then we'll talk about the end goal of vocal training and how that may or may not align with what you want to accomplish as a singer.
Let's get into it!
1. Speech Level Singing Technique
Speech Level Singing or SLS was pioneered by Seth Riggs, a classically educated voice teacher in California.
Mr. Riggs first became inspired to teach vocal technique after learning about the Schola Cantorum and Bel Canto eras of Italian singing.
Basically, both of these Italian schools of singing were renowned for the beautiful singers they produced.
Seth Riggs wondered why contemporary singers did not follow the vocal aesthetic set out in the Bel Canto era.
After a few failed attempts at teaching in the University system, Mr. Riggs began teaching private singing lessons in Los Angeles. Around this time, he began a teacher training system based on his vocal technique called Speech Level Singing.
What is Speech Level Singing?
Speech Level Singing is a vocal technique that seeks to create a balanced registration from the bottom to the top of a singer's range. All while keeping a resting larynx.
What the heck does that mean?
Basically, SLS holds that when you speak there is no tension in your voice because your motivation is to communicate. The same should be true when you're singing. No matter how high the note.
Often when a singer is singing from the bottom to the top of their voice there is an audible "break" or "disconnect" into falsetto.
Speech Level Singing believes that this break is the result of strain from joining the different vocal registers.
As a result, SLS prescribes exercises designed to help singers overcome this break into falsetto, keeping all the notes in the range at "speech-level". I.e. NO STRAIN!
The end result is one unified voice in which the registers are so well blended, there is no break or strain.
Speech Level Singing calls this blending of registers a mix.
Mr. Riggs believes that it is crucial to achieve this mix while maintaining a resting larynx.
The larynx, or voice box, is the hollow muscular organ that contains the vocal folds (or cords). In an untrained singer, the larynx will typically rise as the singer's pitch rises.
Seth Riggs believes that this rising larynx is responsible for vocal strain and lowers the quality of the singing.
So a large part of Speech Level Singing training is dedicated to keeping the larynx down.
The Goal of Speech Level Singing
The end goal of Speech Level Singing vocal training is to balances the registers so well that the singer can hit any note they want to without a noticeable change in quality.
This means that SLS is specifically designed to help a singer hit higher notes without falsetto or strain.
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You may consider yourself to be 'biased', but I feel you gave a really unbiased gist of the different systems. Thank you!
Thanks Mr. Berryman. I appreciate your feedback. If you'd like to get even more info, check out this article: ramseyvoice.com/sls-estill-cvt/
Great explanation, thank you! I am with you on the SLS though ;)! So keep up the good work, greetings from Germany
Hi Ramsey, I like your metioning CVT in this video and how respectfull and correct you write about it on your website thanx! As an authorised CVT teacher I want to mention that CVT is good for all singers of all styles ( also classical, musical...) and of all levels. I even don't dare to teach someone with one paralysed vocal cord. If Europe is to far away you could contact RAZ KENNEDY in the Bay Area :-) His is alos authorised CVT Teacher and former days worked with sLS. One thing more: CVT is the Technique CVI (Complete Vocal Institute) is the name of the Institute in Copenhagen. so all the best and have fun with singing! Karin
Of course KBJazz, I think Cathrine Sadolin is a tremendous innovator. I have so much respect for all the CVT teachers out there. Keep up the good work!
Have you ever heard about the Vocal Essence method from Vocal Center in the Netherlands? In its approach it focusses on the singer’s needs, and works a lot with choosing the right vowel sounds in relation to volume and tone height.
unfortunately, no, I've never heard of it
Yes ive search it from youtube. He's Robin. A Complete Vocal Technique authorized teacher. Search videosfromcvi, he's on the most bottom list of the channel.
Hey Ramsey, are you familiar with Functional Voice Training by Cornelius Reid? It's just about building up your chest voice, head voice (falsetto) and mixed voice. Seems to be very similar to SLS. I love it because it's just about letting go of your voice, not controlling or forcing anything, not even stabilizing the voice with 'support'. I think it's the most logical approach to singing technique, working on mixed voice without forcing anything
Hey Rosedom, I believe that Cornelius is a kindred spirit with SLS based techniques. They're all based in what we understand of the Bel Canto era.
Thank you, nice short and to the point video
is the guitar line played during your videos intro from 'Rapture' by Slumber but in a different key? if not, that's even more fascinating.
Question: was told that you can only train the voice to go higher, not lower, is this true? I was told you could develop more edge, but lower was a no. Im about to start going to a school. Im would guess im kind of halfway between bass or barryton i think (im at least somewher on the lower scale) . Would love to go lower to sing like.... well Lee Hazelwood as a example but he feels more like bass, like when he speaks on his older records, its amazing deep)
more lessons for bass please, youtube teachers tend to forget us.
Hey Alexandre, Bass is one of the rarest voice types. Has your voice been assessed as a bass by a voice teacher/choir teacher/singer friend etc...?
The reason I ask is most of the time, people believe that they are a bass due to how low they can sing, rather than where they bridge to the different registers of their voice. A bass will bridge to their middle voice around an A3, rather than an E4 like a tenor.
Thanks for replying. No, not by a voice teacher. My height is 1,95m (6'4). E2 is an easy note for me and I can go a little lower, D2 in good days ( very fryish). My primo passagio is at B3 and my second is at D4.
Oh, my favorite singer is Bob marley ( a tenor, he's 2nd passagio was around F), and I tend to sing all he's songs one octave lower.
I'm bari-tenor maybe some said due to my lowest notes, F2 if I fight i reach E2 not clear like fry. And highest middle is E3/E4 and head is C5- G5.
I'm not a trained singer, so my voice has not reach it fullest.
Important point: CVT teaches noise-making, not necessarily singing. I wrote up a long blog post about CVT here:
learningtosing.wordpress.com/2018/05/19/what-is-complete-vocal-training-cvt/
Singing is pretty much controlled noise-making, so… 🤷♂️
Estill isn’t a vocal method dear, it’s a language for understanding and control muscle, it’s not a course in singing, and there are many issues with its application to actual singing, the same with every method out there. There is such a bad environment of guru mentality with vocal methods, and there is a massively connected global network of vocal teachers and coaches that have different approaches but share the same ideals, it isn’t just that everyone is different at all.
ANB, thanks for your thoughtful response. I don't know that I understand the distinction between a method and a language since all vocal pedagogy is based on spoken instruction.
I agree there's a ton of practical application for Estill and it's a wonderful technique. The voice teacher that teaches one and excludes the others will hit a wall at some point. I'm a member of several organizations that have an open exchange of information (such as NATS), however I've found that SLS/IVA is the one that most suits my needs.
Do you study Estill formally? I don’t think you do. Estill can perfectly be applied to singing. Do not misinform. It’s true that it’s not a singing method, but a scientific system. but you cannot say that it brings trouble to singers when it doesn’t. if you don’t know EVT, do not mention it.
Félix Maidana yes I studied Estill for 10 years and have a certification ... and i never said it can’t be applied to singing ... and it can absolutely cause many issues for singers that take it purely as it is and stick within the qualities etc ... when qualities of sound are on a sliding scale based on TA/CT interaction ... some practitioners of Estill in the US are wornderful and like the comment above, acknowledge other pedagogy and ways of working ... Estill is something that needs to be massively revised in terms of its application and in terms of some of the science, some of which is actually not up to date ... they are talking more about acoustics now which is good ... but it can be unhelpful, it’s not misinformation, and another thing ... why are most Estill people so defensive when faced with anything that might contradict the narrow tunnel they seem to operate within ...
ANB Aaron Newland-Bentley I never knew anyone who has had trouble with Estill. In fact, most people that I’m in touch with and put the model into practice have amazing results. Estill is still doing a lot of research, and they are working pretty hard on its scientific background. They just haven’t updated the published model yet, which doesn’t mean that they’re not continuing their research. I agree that the model needs an update, of course. But many EMCIs and EMTs are working on new research. I don’t see the point of bashing Estill.. especially if you claim to have a certification.
Félix Maidana There is no bashing here ... move on
3:09 you sad "with air" without air, and "without air" with air. It kinda bothers me 😅😅
sorry, I don't understand what you mean
@@ramseyvoicestudio lol I noticed this too. just that u said “without air” in a breathy way.
Subtitles?
I hope so, one day
Is your office close to Alex Jones’ offices?
Oh my God. What a load of confusing nonsense. Just learn to use your voice as simply and naturally as possible, like a good classical technique. Once you can do this, you have chest voice, mixed voice, head voice. You can do anything then, more or less, without hurting yourself, as easy as falling off a log.
Daniel, I agree that many vocal techniques make this more difficult than it needs to be. That's why I agree that singing in chest, head and mixed voice are the most important concepts to learn to sing.
This comment is the grand example of having a prodigy tell you “math isn’t hard”.
All these nonsense marketing names for so-called singing lessons.
Strange how the great singers of the past somehow achieved their greatness without all these buzzwords techniques.
It's really just singing for the ADHD generation.
I completely agree David. Who cares what you call it if you sing well and sound good?
Uhhhh they’re actually quite distinct technical approaches and all a far cry from the largely mystical, image-based approach so many voice teachers have used in the past.
The "great singers" of the past also didn't really know what they were doing and a lot of them cannot sing now due to vocal injury from bad technique...
These helped Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles keep their voice!
Load of nonsense, from opera singers of old who partook in bel canto technique to throat singing found in Remote areas. Vocal techniques have always existed.