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Newsflash 18/10/01 - NST Guitar Chord Generator ~ Jim Cranwell has kindly added Robert Fripp's New Standard Tuning to his amazing Guitar Chord Generator at the FraKctured Zone's request. Follow the link and select CGDAEG tuning.

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How to Play Fracture...

Click here for Anthony Garone's Guitar Lesson #3: "Fracture" 

Click here for Anthony Garone's Guitar Lesson #4: "Fracture"

 

Response to Anthony Garone from Robert Fripp's diary (March 26th 2006)

Mr. Garone’s work on this is honourable, and has my respect. I would disagree on several small points…

The key to playing the music above is to start slow with a metronome and a good pick. I've found that the Dunlop Tortex Medium picks (the yellow, standard picks) are the best for me. They have good texture and don't move around a whole lot when your fingers get sweaty from so much pickin'.

The recommended pick is a triangular Guitar Craft pick, of which there is a small production line, handmade in Japan by Mr. Hiroshi Iketani. If a Dunlop Tortex is the only choice, I would use the Tortex Sharp & consider that life was hard, cruel & unfair.

In order to play this song properly, you're going to need to hold your pick correctly. Make sure it's parallel to the string (a slight angle in the clockwise direction to accommodate your wrist is fine).

This is good basic advice, but the slight angle would require fine-tuning & re-calibration in person. That written, anyone who makes the leap on this one is excused almost any small errors, and most large ones.

As for the picking itself, you're going to use alternate picking starting with an upward pick on the first note.

I would recommend beginning with a down stroke, and adopting this as default picking. In time, when the alternate picking is established, to begin with an up stroke is another exercise, with another aim.

The words down & up strokes are misleading. The actual quality of motion is of release & return. I have worked at close quarters on this with perhaps 2,000 hands & very few of those hands have a sense of what the words mean.

Trust me... if you lose this pattern, the song will fall apart.

Complete & unqualified agreement; particularly if John Wetton & Bill Bruford are the rhythm section behind you, and the audience in front is drunk, drugged, shouting & inattentive. This scenario is, however, a supreme challenge in the practise of attention.

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