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Title: Pass this book up
Review: The biggest problem this book has is that it is not very broad. These few exercises that encourage a larynx at the position of speech have two main problems. First, we don't sing with our larynx at the position of speech. Second, these exercises may encourage the frozen, and/or compressed larynx that is not a quality of either speech or, and more importantly, singing.A good vocal pedagogy education shouldn't be needed for anyone to see that this book and Speech Level Singing fall way short of an actual useable "method." In fact, when we voice teachers no longer get former Speech Level Singing students in to our studios that need to be retrained, I'll be more than happy to revisit my opinions on this book and SLS.If you are looking for higher quality books/CD/DVDs, check out such authors as Gillyanne Kayes's Singing and the Actor, or Lisa Popeil's books CD/DVDs, and Elisabeth Howard's Book/CD/DVDs Sing!
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