Hi everyone , 
 
I started out today with no song .. 
whew....... I had to bust an all day session to get this one out ...
 
here we have  part 1 of my assignment # 5  home work for the improvisation class ...
 
  Olhos De Gato  written by Carla Bley 
 
https://soundcloud.com/guitarist-kenny-wilson/olhos-de-gato 
 
btw....this is a quirky in a good way sounding tune ....I did play the melody   so's you know 
 
I hope you enjoy 
 
Kenny

Nice sound on the guitar Kenny. Nice little riffs throughout. Very jazzy little piece.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

If I was in class, I'd do Van Halen's "I'm hot for teacher." But it would probably be a dude, and I'd probably get an F :-(
 
"I'VE GOT MY PENCIL!" Sir, SIR! Please sit down! Oh my God! Is he? Is he playing his guitar with it? SECURITY! SECURITY!! (the callouses... OH THE HUMANITY!) Do you have ANY idea how difficult it is to orbit like that?
 
It is beyond my ability to understand why you are in a music class of any kind. With that said? I enjoyed this. 

Incredible finger tone. It's a lesson in the "it's all in the fingers" story.
 
The beginning sort of confused me and then the second half sort of blew me away.
 
It's inspiring to see how players never stop studying.
 
Thanks for sharing.
 
best regards,
mike

theguitarplayer
Nice sound on the guitar Kenny. Nice little riffs throughout. Very jazzy little piece.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Hi John,
 
thank you very much for giving Olhos a listen , I appreciate the comment .
 
Kenny

 
melody/harmony sounds a little dissonant around 0.16 - 0.19... maybe its supposed to...
 
I love the tone and vibe... good work K... 

I heard what Frank is talking about and figured that you were probably going for that.  I also love the tone and enjoy seeing someone who is already gifted going for more.  Nice, buddy!

The Band19
If I was in class, I'd do Van Halen's "I'm hot for teacher." But it would probably be a dude, and I'd probably get an F :-(
 
"I'VE GOT MY PENCIL!" Sir, SIR! Please sit down! Oh my God! Is he? Is he playing his guitar with it? SECURITY! SECURITY!! (the callouses... OH THE HUMANITY!) Do you have ANY idea how difficult it is to orbit like that?
 
It is beyond my ability to understand why you are in a music class of any kind. With that said? I enjoyed this. 

Hi there Robbie 
Yes , I think I know how difficult it is to orbit like that ...
the first 5 grades of my education were in a parochial school way back in the early 60's when they didn't spare the rod ..
I had already seen the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan , every so often I used to bop my head to an imaginary listening to the Stones tune Satisfaction when I used to day dream ...
 
one day a teacher w a "black costume " "w a hood "  asked the whole class the question
" what do you want to be when you grow up ? "
one by one each student stood up in front of their desk and said various things like ,
I want to be president , I want to be a doctor , I want to be a fireman ...you get the drift ...
I stood up , started pretending I had an air guitar ( btw ....air guitars had just been invented right around that time  ) and did a little happy dance while shaking my head like an imaginary Beatle and said something like
"when I grow up I want to Rock ..."
the errrmm teacher looked at me with a very pissed off look on her face and said in front of the whole class ..
"you want to what ?"
sheepishly ,
I did my little happy dance again w a very red blushed embarrassed face and said "when I grow up I want to Rock " 
I'm not making this sh*t up , the next thing I can remember was that "teacher w the black costume " charged me like a raging bull in front of the whole class and handed me my first loss in a M M A style sport  ....
 
 
Hot for teacher w your visual .. is very funny stuff actually  .....
 
having gotten that memory and story off my chest ....I 've got a long ways to go ...w music and learning 
 
I've enjoyed studying music in this class .... 
 
thank you very much Robbie my forum friend for having kind words to say about my playing 
 
Kenny
 
 

mike_mccue
Incredible finger tone. It's a lesson in the "it's all in the fingers" story.
 
The beginning sort of confused me and then the second half sort of blew me away.
 
It's inspiring to see how players never stop studying.
 
Thanks for sharing.
 
best regards,
mike

Hi Mike , 
 
I did my best to try to give everybody here a heads up when I mentioned quirky ...
the first 37 or so seconds of the song are the songs melody ...
 
I'm happy you dig my guitar tone  and playing ....
I'm using the guitar that is in the songs photo ...Washburn J 4 that was recorded direct w out anything ...
when it came time to mix , I put a touch of compression and a little reverb on it ....
 
I'm very pleased with myself for having done this song and I feel that I kinda surprised myself playing over the section you enjoyed ....
while recording and improvising on this song I was reading the songs chart ....
 
I had already tried recording and playing this a  few times w out the chart and found my self in a ditch on the side of the road 
 
thank you for the song listen and kind words 
 
Kenny
 
 

notnat
 
melody/harmony sounds a little dissonant around 0.16 - 0.19... maybe its supposed to...
 
I love the tone and vibe... good work K... 

Hi Frank , 
 
Yeah , I hear Ya  that's the song 
 
I'm happy you gave this song and my playing a listen , thank you for digging the tone and vibe   
 
Kenny