Out Walking

'Out Walking' is the opening track of my second solo piano CD, 'Scenes from the Neighbourhood'. I have walked for years, almost every night, ... and you build up a sort of rhythm, a step that you look for each time you go out that helps you think and recollect and put things into perspective... occasionally too, there are little skips or hops to give the physcial expression to the exhilaration one feels when out walking in your own neighbourhood. I am striving in my playing to achieve some of the guitar techniques I hear in the playing of some significant artists like Leo Kottke and Dan Crary. The melding of these guitar-like elements with the necessary different structure of a piano-playing style creates the result you hear on this track.

'Scenes from the Neighbourhood' is available from CD Baby and iTunes. Sheet Music of 'Out Walking' is available at www.lulu.com.