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It makes the claim that there’s only one right way to sing (i.e.

After all, it does fairly quickly create a healthy, balanced voice. It kept my voice very healthy, and I still use it with beginning students who want pretty voices but don’t know which style they’re interested in learning. My background growing up was in SLS, and I developed a bright Disney princess-quality sound with it. Blended together, these two actions create a rich, bright open sound. To balance those out, it gives exercises meant to lower the larynx (mum mum mum) that, in Estillian terms, are causing the thyroid to tilt. It gives exercises meant to raise the larynx (nay nay nay) that, in Estillian terms, are narrowing the aryepiglottic sphincter. It creates a fairly standard vocal sound (that of balance and clarity, without a whole lot of variation from low to high), and it does it well and efficiently. SLS is fast and relatively easy to learn. The training focuses on developing a smooth mixed voice from low to high, and much of the training revolves around evening out the passagi (or voice breaks). In short, SLS epouses that the larynx should always remain in a neutral position and that if if the larynx rises or drops, or the voice becomes breathy, there’s something wrong happening. It’s been around for a long time but seemed to hit its stride and become the party line among musical theatre and pop singers in the 1990’s and early aughts. Speech Level Singing, often abbreviated SLS, is a famous vocal method developed by Seth Riggs. Estill Voice Training Speech Level Singing Because I’m at the tail end of an Estill workshop, I thought I’d write a post comparing (and offering my two cents on) these two famous vocal systems, Speech Level Singing (SLS) and Estill Voice (EVT). Even when you listen to one particularly versatile person, she’s often able to produce a wide range of sounds: belting, classical head voice, breathy…you get the idea. If you listen to the singers out there, they’re producing a wide range of sounds, many of which are pleasing to the ear. Mika playing keyboard at V Festival 2007 in Weston Park, Staffordshire, by Seraphim Whipp under CC BY 2.5Īnyone who knows me knows that I don’t think there’s any one right way to sing or any one method to get you there.