Bet you can't play this Robert Fripp guitar part!

CaseOfAce

0:53 into this vid Fripp's playing is insane.
Just unbelievable picking / stamina. I tried using little left hand finger as well but think 3 index , middle and ring is easier to cover that initial figure.

King Crimson - Frame By Frame (Old Grey Whistle Test, March 18th 1982) - YouTube

axisus

Ahh yes, I've seen the video before. Great song! I still love that album. Although it is very 80s in some ways it still sounds incredibly fresh. I'm just looking at the track listing and every one is incredible:

Elephant Talk

Frame by Frame

Matte Kudasai

Indiscipline

Thela Hun Ginjeet

The Sheltering Sky

Discipline

I guess I like Indiscipline and Thela Hun Ginjeet best. Both blew my mind when I first heard them.

digitalkettle

It's a bit quick...this is a dangerous pace

TheBigDipper

One of the best gigs I've ever seen was this lineup at Hammersmith Palais. Brilliant from "everyone drumming" intro to the finish. 

guitarmangler

It’ll be in Fripp’s 5th tuning, but still
amazing. The way he drops a semi quaver is awesome, ( I assume it’s him as Belew is singing). Bruford is one of my favourite drummers. Such an excellent performance.

octatonic

CaseOfAce said:

0:53 into this vid Fripp's playing is insane.
Just unbelievable picking / stamina. I tried using little left hand finger as well but think 3 index , middle and ring is easier to cover that initial figure.

King Crimson - Frame By Frame (Old Grey Whistle Test, March 18th 1982) - YouTube

I have learned it in the past- the last 15 seconds is a fucking workout.

guitarmangler said:

It’ll be in Fripp’s 5th tuning, but still
amazing. The way he drops a semi quaver is awesome, ( I assume it’s him as Belew is singing). Bruford is one of my favourite drummers. Such an excellent performance.

No, Frame by Frame is in standard tuning.

Discipline was released in 1981, Fripp didn't invent NST until 1983 and then really start using it until 1984/85.

octatonic

digitalkettle said:

It's a bit quick...this is a dangerous pace

Good pun!

OilCityPickups

I saw G3 at the Royal Albert Hall with Vai, Satriani and Fripp ... and in my opinion Fripp blew the others away. I had an opportunity to chat to Satriani after the show as my Missus production managed it ... he seemed a little in awe of Fripp ... which I found fascinating. 

TheBigDipper

OilCityPickups said:

I saw G3 at the Royal Albert Hall with Vai, Satriani and Fripp ... and in my opinion Fripp blew the others away. I had an opportunity to chat to Satriani after the show as my Missus production managed it ... he seemed a little in awe of Fripp ... which I found fascinating. 

Fripp comes across as an odd bloke - but then, so is Ritchie Blackmore, another of my early role models. It cannot be denied that he has a unique musical voice with his instrument and has participated in delivering some fantastic music. And a little bit of me suspects the "odd bloke" aspect is a bit of a mask he hides behind.

I think his days as an innovator are over, but that doesn't detract from anything. 

Sporky

Play it? I couldn't even listen to it the whole way through! 

Grangousier

Incidentally, while Frame By Frame is fast, it's a repeated bit (the same thing on a solo track called Zero of the Signified, which goes on for longer) - the really difficult part is Fracture from 1973 - this is the original live version (the studio version is this with overdubs), which is an incredible and possibly insane technical feat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdqAU3IMnfw

(the difficult bit, the Moto Perpetuo, starts at about 2:50.

jmf1928

I was just listening to this earlier today and wondering what it looked like played. I'm tempted to learn it slowly as a practice routine. This album and Three of a Perfect pair really have some great songs and sounds.