A House Is Not a Home -- piano solo

Sorry for the scrappy video. This was a quick video capture that was done spur of the moment. This is a song by Burt Bacharach, which I have loved from the first time I heard it. My version of this song borders on being overly sentimental, but that is what came to me when I recorded it late Saturday night after midnight, reflecting my mood at the time, I guess. This is not a jazz piece per se, but Bill Evans covered it on one of his albums. In fact, I borrowed heavily from him on this piece. I do improvise for most of it. My approach to this piece is an attempt to balance intimacy against the grand gesture. Pull back too much and it gets sloggy, push the runs too much and it gets bombastic. Runs (arppegios) are a guilty pleasure of mine, takes me back to my gospel days. I hope you enjoy this piece. I enjoyed playing it.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Burt
• Bacharach
• Bill
• Evans
• Jazz
• piano
• Roland
• RD700SX
• Synthogy
• Ivory
• Steinway
• Raleigh
• Durham
• North
• Carolina

[dongordhi]

every notes that you played were just perfect! i couldn't imagine if there's a better version for this song..

[7notemode]

@dongordhi Thank you so much!

[jake11375]

Amazing! I feel like such a novice listening to this. Beautiful rendition!

[7notemode]

@jake11375 Hey man, Thanks!

[Princey1512]

damn i wanna be able to do this...you are so awesome on the piano

[7notemode]

@Princey1512 Thank you!

[samuelq1]

Growing up, my church never had a bass player. As the keyboard player, I split the keyboard to sound like a bass on one side and piano in the other. Unfortunately, my left had cannot flow as fluently as my right. I've started training my left had because of videos like this. You're awesome!!

[VIDE0DR0ME]

Your well-executed runs send quivering pleasure to my ears, and your sentimental approach resounds with the whole point of this song. Every chord is well conceived. Time is ripe for you to transcribe and market / circulate your version, I think!

[arika002]

I enjoyed it very much, thank you for uploading it. would you mind giving me a transcription of your version?

[barefoot55]

You're a real breath of fresh air my friend.

[leeoal]

Thanks for sharing your wonderful piano playing with me and all your fans. This song, A house is not a home, is one of the lovliest in your entire collection.

Take care,

Leif Ahlund (leeoal), Sweden

[sophizzy]

This is beautiful, how can anyone dislike this? Some people are just tone deaf!