King Crimson - Fracture guitar tab

Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:27:52 -0500

From: TitanObel

Subject: k/king_crimson/fracture.tab

Artist: King Crimson

Album: Starless and bible black

Songname: FRACTURE

King Crimson

"Fracture"

(guitar part by Robert Fripp)

(guitar tab)

transcribed by Torsten Lasse ("Titan Obel")

contact: uzsrbw@uni-bonn.de

This file contains the transcribtion of the background guitar part in the middle

of King Crimson?s masterpiece "Fracture" which you can find at the Album "Star-

less and bible black". This guitar part is very hard to listen out because of

it?s incredible speed and it?s comparable low volume.

Robert Fripp plays this part with an electric guitar and without any effects.

I?ve transcribe this part for a normal guitar tuning (EADGHE) but I think Fripp

used his "own" special tuning (fifth tuning). The basic scale is the HTGT-Scale.

Perhabs I will complete this version with the full guitar tab notation (and all

variations) in a few years...

I?ve transcribed it as an 16/8 bar and all notes have the same length (1/16).

The speed is very high (listen to the original record) !!

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x5-------7-------5---7---5---7---|-5-------7-------5---------------|

---6-4-6---6-4-6---6---6---6---6-|---6-4-6---6-4-6---6-4-------4-6-|

---------------------------------|-----------------------5-3-5-----|

Fripp plays this scheme in different pitches starting with the part which I de-

scribed above.

For orientation I call this part by the first tone: g (marked with a ?x?).

He plays that part 2 times before moving to the next part.

Next I give you other positions in which he plays this part. The given tone re-

presents the first tone of the new position (comparable with the marked note ab-

ove).

D-String; fret 5 (g)

D-String; fret 7 (a)

G-String; fret 6 (#c)

G-String; fret 8 (#d)

You should listen to the original recording (or try to find a midi-file) to

realise it and build in variations.

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File created by Torsten Lasse, March 2000

Original-File name: kingcrimson-fracture ((Version 1))

For further information or details contact: uzsrbw@uni-bonn.de

If you have transcribed other parts please contact me...

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