You're the Voice: Tom Jones: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Book & CD

This collection captures songs that showcase vocal storytelling across multiple styles, from theatrical ballads to upbeat pop arrangements. The accompanying backing tracks allow singers to hear themselves against professionally recorded accompaniments that honor the original recordings, making this ideal for singers building confidence with contemporary and classic popular repertoire.

These arrangements blend theatrical warmth with pop accessibility, delivering songs that feel equally at home in a cabaret setting or a contemporary vocal recital. The collection moves between reflective ballads and spirited uptempo numbers, offering emotional range and showcasing different facets of interpretive singing.

Singers in musical theater programs, jazz and pop vocal students, and performers developing a contemporary standards repertoire. This book serves singers who want to explore popular music that demands both vocal control and emotional maturity.

• Listen to the recorded accompaniment multiple times before singing to internalize the phrasing and emotional arc each song demands.
• Pay attention to the vocal dynamics marked in the score; these songs reward dynamic contrast between intimate verses and fuller choruses.
• Use the guitar voicings as a guide for phrasing even when singing with piano or the backing track, as they often highlight the harmonic turning points.
• Work on sustaining legit tone through the lower register, which these arrangements frequently explore.

Program individual songs from this collection in vocal recitals or pops concerts to offer variety in style and era. The backing tracks make this excellent for singers preparing audition material or building a repertoire class focused on popular vocal standards.

• Singing with recorded accompaniments and maintaining independence from backing tracks
• Dynamic shaping in popular and theatrical vocal styles
• Lyrical interpretation across multiple song genres
• Sustaining legit vocal tone in lower ranges
• Reading vocal melody lines with chord symbols for guitar and piano