Howard Jones - City Song (piano, vocal)

Here's my attempt to another classic song from Howard Jones, from his epic 1991 album In The Running.
Please go easy on me, ;-), for it is one of HoJo's toughest songs to play and I had quite a few bum notes and forgotten words here and there. Let's also not forget, that HoJo is a much higher level pianist than humble me.

I used my Roland RD170 digital piano, with a Stack Piano preset (variation 4).

Enjoy!

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[spillandambience]

its my favorite HJ song ever!! cant believe someone is finally playing it for youtube :))

[jobvink]

@spillandambience Thanks, glad you liked it! I believe I am the first one ever to turn this song into an amateur YouTube-performance.

[framax67]

Hello jobvink, I don't resist to post another comment.

I listen to this song one more time and think it's one of the hardest to sing from HoJo. But it's really pleasant to listen to you. Your voice is like Joe Jackson and the piano part is really good.

Thank you very much jobvnk.

I am going to try to learn the piano part with your video. You can make a tutorial from the begining. But I can't sing because of my french accent.

HoJo we love you. See you at November 6th in Indigo2 LONDON

Bye

[jobvink]

@framax67 In HoJo's intro we hear some kind of arpeggiator playing; I tried to imitate it's effect roughly on the piano. The song's chords are roughly like this:

Intro: Abm :||

Verses and piano solo: Abm - E - Dbm - A :||

Pre-choruses : B - Bm - A/B - E G :||

Chorus: Dm - Bb - F - C :||

Bridge: E/Db - E/A :|| Ebm7/Ab - A/G - Dmaj7 A/G

Intro - Verse - Pre-chorus - Verse - Pre-chorus - Chorus - Verse - Pre-chorus - Chorus - Bridge - Piano Solo - Pre-chorus - Chorus (fade)

[framax67]

Oh really good. Thank for this wonderful song from HoJo.

It's not a classic but it's a very nice tube. HoJo we love u

[jobvink]

@framax67 Thanks a lot for your kind words. HoJo we love you indeed.

[jobvink]

@TheMatchu123 Thanks a million for your kind words.

[TheMatchu123]

Amazing, was looking for the Howard jones song and found this. Vocally needs some work but musically think u nailed it. Nice work and keep it up!!