3rd Voice :: Speech Level Singing Voice Training in Toronto

Speech Level Singing

“How are you going to build style if you hear notes above what your singing and can’t get to it? [...] Your ability to get through these things called bridges, these transitions, is what this whole act of singing is [...] ‘Be patient.’ How do you spell it? ‘P-E-Y-T-I-E-U-N-T’. That’s how you get through. You narrow the vowel.”

- Maestro Seth Riggs, Speech Level Singing Originator

3rd Voice is an exclusive Toronto*Speech Level Singing (SLS)* studio, directed by SLS Certified Instructor Brandon Brophy. SLS is the only singing technique trusted and used by over 120 Grammy Award winners – a roster of celebrity singers you have grown up listening to, and that your Ipod is probably already filled with. They include singers like: Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Beyonce, Prince, and Anita Baker, just to name a few (for a more comprehensive list, see the Speech Level Singing Clients Page).

What Can Speech Level Singing Do For Your Voice?

Virtually everyone that comes into 3rd Voice discovers:

• Enormous improvements after just the first voice lesson.
• Increases in vocal range, often, of more than an entire octave.
• Fuller, richer resonance, without effort.
• A natural confidence.
• Increased agility, flexibility and strength, especially while singing songs.
• Their singing sounds noticeably and undeniably better.
• They can sing their favorite songs – and sound great!

Why is Speech Level Singing so popular?

Although somewhat new to Toronto Speech Level Singing (SLS) has recently catapulted into the world’s most sought after and reliable international vocal community – and it’s changing the way the world thinks about singing! It is the only standardized singing technique which allows the voice to function naturally, easily and efficiently. It accesses the full breadth of all voice types and singing styles, opening up a very liberating freedom of expression for performers: If you have never experienced singing songs in a relaxed and connected voice before, and in virtually any key you desire, you have never experienced the power of singing.

After learning Speech Level Singing, you will have the ability to *sing songs in any style of music you choose* from rnb, jazz, rock, pop, gospel, punk rock, and classical. Why? Because when your voice is connected and balanced, it can remain flexible and strong in any genre (and you won’t have to change the way you sing to do it!).

For more info on voice lessons, or how the Speech Level Singing technique works, have a look here.

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Q: Is this REALLY how all those 120 Grammy winners like Stevie have learned to sing their best?

A: Yes! Stevie Wonder has studied Speech Level Singing for nearly 50 years! The rest too have learned how to sing at their Speech Level. But with all the misinformation these days about singing, no wonder why voice training everywhere else has and continues to be the most widely misunderstood instrument.

ALL those performers rely on the foundations of their Speech Level for their continued success. Remember, the freedom of your vocal cord structure alone is what will:

• Make manifest the tone quality and resonance that will either fail or succeed in lighting up the hearts of your audience,
• Determine the scope of your ability to experiment and sing strong, freely, clearly, and easily across the entire range of your voice, and
• Determine your capacity to successfully survive the length of your singing, gigging and recording career, professional or not.

Luckily enough, Speech Level Singing ensures the world’s highest standard of voice training through the meticulous testing and yearly certification of it’s teachers. Of course, if you have any experience at all studying with other voice training programs and teachers, you will soon discover that this is indeed not what the vast majority of teachers, and so called professional voice training systems, want or are able to teach you.

*Breath control, diction, resonance and “sound placement”, and even relaxation, are all RESULTS of good singing – not the means to developing it!!!* If you want a flexible and stable voice, you will need a voice training system and teacher that can help you to balance against your unique, habitual singing tendencies that tend to throw you off your Speech Level. *Your vocal potential relies entirely on your ability to maintain a relaxed/stable larynx, and moderately closed vocal cords* across your entire range. ONLY then, can you truly create a condition in your voice for optimum, exciting and liberating singing.