Book of Saturday - King Crimson - Guitar

[MrSelimkalkandelen]

thats it......

[TheModCon]

I love this song, but I think you played it really badly :/

[MarcoVCampanella]

Great cover!!

[MrGuitar0492]

this was 10/10

[pzak1000]

Enjoyed! Excellence is right around the corner. Beautiful. You got it. :-)

[raitiovainu]

Very good, this song is a great challange.

[rouelibre1]

Quite perfect.  The essence of the song has been preserved.

[fabinfvb]

nice!

[anuteamsterium]

You seem to have had a fine classical background. Your playing is very soulful. Don't ever stop! Don't try to be Fripp. Be yourself!

[paulwells2003]

Without wishing to take anything away from RF, if he chose to play it with a plectrum that's his business. This sounds great fingerstyle.

[MachineHead154]

Awesome, u're great! what kind of strat is that man?

[carlitoparadise]

WonderFull :)

[maximvint]

Oh! Man thats cool! Robert 4life! Greetings from Rusland!

[its8ace]

Never apologise for executing a piece with right-hand fingers...as a right-hander, that is! The stuff you can do with right fingers which are 'alive' is sensational. The other 'advice' I have, is to play pieces with technique and style which suits your interpretation of a piece...don't slavishly try to emulate, take the piece further; even if 'further' is 'backward'. In any event, keep up the good work; doesn't matter whether it's Crimson or Chopin. PT

[greatsea]

i'm not one of those "music is not what it used to be" fogies . . . but I think the question is relevant: where are the Robert Fripps of today? There is just nothing like this being composed today. As I've said before, you nailed it.

[Hessterica]

yeah!!!!

too sick!!!

[LizRichieBand]

This is fantastic.I've been playing for over 35 years now & never came close to aniling any of this tune.

Right on stamen47, if thats you!!!!!!!!!

[jwhitepngnboy]

Very nice job.Anyone that tries to tackle Robert Fripp,deserves kudos.There just is not great music like this anymore.Thanks for the posting.

[creasytube]

You obviously have a great ear to untangle the many subtleties in this song--BRAVO!!

[marcobandini1]

really good! in these times mobody plays these wonderfool songs

[scarberianknight]

awesome.. im trying this one too, but I cant get past the first riff.. its way above my level , I like what you did with it though

[FoxtronInk]

Pretty cool, keep playing.

[afthefragile]

A few glitches but still amazing!

I've been trying to play this song for a while and its one of the toughest song out there to nail!

So great work... keep it up!!

[KUAHOS]

Pretty close ..!  well done....I wish I ever play that good ...Crinsom rules...

[tributoradiohead]

Five Stars...

Greetings from chile

[schwaadlapp]

well done !

thank you . .

greetings

[schwaadlapp]

beautiful !

well done - so I´ll try to learn by this . .

thank you very much for posting !

greetings

[MrChad6729]

Geat job! You look pretty young too! Nice to see some young people knowing what's happening!

[TheJdhoag]

Superb. Keep practicing! With a performance this good, it just goes to show what extraordinary lengths the original artist(s) went to. Excellent work, and thank you!

[ProgMom67]

Nice job. I love this song.

[slapfunker]

beautiful song... i have an strato too, the sound have a effect? what amp do you got?

[xORIGINx]

NIce job. Good right hand technique, do you have classical training?

[pMcactusbin]

pretty damn good. notice a couple slipups, but spot on otherwise. Better than I could do for sure.

[KrroPF]

Incredible :|

Five Stars for you sr

[carlitoparadise]

Fantastic !

My Congratulations :)

[carlitoparadise]

BeautiFull :D

[rejtmand]

a practicar...

[SgtPepper1942]

very good stuff man, this is hard song to play. 5 stars.

If somebody wants tabs for this song, you can find it on UltimateGuitar.

[SoSeventies]

...this night wounds time

[Iro008]

top effort. i tried to learn this from the tab years ago and there was just too much movement in it to get my patience still long enough to learn it.

kudos.

[Dharma1234]

awesome!!! this is a so dificult suite, i tried to play it with a pick like fripp but is sooooo hard

[misterjenkins]

Amazing. Excellent job!

[rickenheimer]

A stunning performance of a beautiful song. Keep up the great work!

[eternalriver]

From one guitarist to another, this snapshot of a peculiar and unique song is worthy of considerable respect.

[thissucks12345678901]

Did you figure that at on your own? Anyway excellent job.

[helicon07]

fuckingly amazing.

[sonicdeath10]

As others have said a few moments of sloppiness, but I could never play that.

[zenlib]

Nice job. Very melodic. Awsome strat too. Great tone on that thing! What kind of strat is that. Is it stock? Thanks!

[BibleAdventureMan]

thank you

[Noyore]

holy shit, a little sloppy but amazing nontheless!

[MattHood]

all the right sounding notes, post a vid after practicing! (i've been practicing this one for like two years now, though so i understand ;-P)

[adamharth]

I always loved this song but I never realized how hard it was to play till I saw this video.I like this version better than the album version because the true beauty come out better as an instrumental. Thanks

[juresaiyan]

@adamharth yeah, I agree. I too had no idea it was that complicated. Well, Fripp is an underrated guitar player anyway. ;)

[adamharth1]

@juresaiyan

Thanks for thinking so too. Love the ladies on your site too:)))

[juresaiyan]

@adamharth1 ladies on my site??? wtf??

[adamharth1]

@juresaiyan

I'm sorry, it was your Likes I was commenting on. Never mind that. I thought they were something you posted on your site I was in error. Rather talk about music from now on.

[juresaiyan]

@adamharth1 oh, ok, no probs mate. ;P

[adamharth1]

@juresaiyan I'm a musician too. I did a sound track for a short film I can send you. It should be on my link to this site. Come check it out. Thanks

[coreyagraph]

a+ great. a work in progress. can't wait to see this in a few months

[Elyodachido]

Anyone gonna be in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 20th, 2008? You gotta go check-out the King Crimson tribute show by The Great Deceivers @ club SPACELAND!!!!!!!!!

[greatsea]

It's rough around the edges but what you've done is spot lighted the genius of Fripp as a guitar composer. Very nice. It would be great if you followed up on this with a more polished recital.

[fuddster000]

Thank you for inspiring me to learn this wonderful piece.

Your video will help me greatly.

You do some quite dexterous picking!

I salute a fellow Crimson fan.

[orchestron]

nice technique, however, if you make a mistake try to " keep going ". you must take heed of the rhythm .

[1434465]

Beautiful. I wonder what your background in guitar is, self taught, teacher.

[whistlelocke]

very nice :)

[xander55577]

...and i swear i like your people, the boys in the band.

[nailosity]

Man, I rediscovered that album after many years of not hearing it. I forgot how great it is, and this has become a current favorite... great job, nice to see how it's done. You can really see Fripp's genius. Thanks for posting!

[Al59reconstituido]

It's quite nice to see the song played. I guess a second take would be even better.

[ALanSaidTrujillo]

i'm working in the song tab based.

[Popocaepetl]

I wish I could play it... very likely one of the most impressive guitar works ever, that's for sure. How did you learn it? Is there any sort of tab or partita?

[metalburger2]

impressive. great cover

[cellardoor199991]

Damn that's good!But u can play that with a pick like Fripp does?

[aquistou19]

How do you know that Fripp plays it with a pick?

[rush2death]

Man youre the only one who does that song on youtube

great cover man forget about those missed tempo youre great!

i sure know how tough it is!! keep on rocking bro!!

[hyperboreal]

Pretty laudable considering the difficulty of those intricate arpeggios throughout the piece.

Rock on Stamen47.

[KatieCrusher]

Kinda sloppy.

But it's still impressive; this is a great song.

[silentmirror]

Oh God! I've always wished I could play this song on guitar.. Great job!

"I'll believe you in the future -

your life and death dreams"

[adamanta1]

one word - awesome!

I love this song and i just can't stop watching your version :)

Sounds greaaaat ;]

[NASENT]

Nice man. did fripp use a pick or finger-style for this one?

[DarkHalberdier]

Pick, I am pretty sure, but I have no evidence, apart from my ears.

[graywolff2007]

Good work, man!

Great song, from "Lark's tongues in Aspic" album, one of my favorites ever!

[Leipaa]

Great! One of the best attempts I've seen for a YouTuber to match one of the masters.

Now for the depressing part...Fripp played that plectrum.

[Stamen47]

Gah, I know! He's incredible! However, I just started playing with a pick this last summer, and I'm getting pretty good...maybe one day I'll be quick like him, but I'm sure I'll never be the same as Fripp.

anyway, thanks for your kind words.

[Leipaa]

It reminds me of a funny story I heard once about a classical guitar student who was learning to play a famous piece at his conservatory. Fripp heard him struggling and said "hmm, why don't you try with a plectrum"? The student said "that's impossible! this song requires four fingers". Fripp then took the guitar and played it perfectly with his pick.

[lamecasuelas2]

@Stamen47 hahaha, it is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering

[ChocloManx]

Fripp what with a what?

HUH?!!?

D:

[Rendell05]

Plectrum is another term for a picking device.

[ChocloManx]

I know, it's just shocking.

I don't think he did, though, because a lot of notes are struck at the same time. Maybe he used a pick AND his fingers?

[SuperCunt5000]

@Leipaa wait what? He played this with a pick? I know he is the master of cross picking but my god. Was he hybrid picking?

[whiskeyvengeance]

awesome strap, where can i get one?

[Stamen47]

Haha thanks! I'm really fond of it. It was a $30 strap, but they gave it to me free when I bought my guitar. I can't find any tags or anything on it to indicate where it came from, so your best bet's probably to just browse the straps at guitar center or something. Sorry I can't be more help

[TheSpiralAim]

Holy crap I can't even touch this song man, You do a great job... It's one of KC's prettiest songs. and for the record Robert Fripp needs to be raised on the best guitarist list to somewhere in the top 5.

[Trianaw]

Mot bad at all kiddo, I'm the biggest Crimson fan there is and a musician. I loved that you payed attention to detail but watch your tempo, Most guitarist (other than Fripp of course) tend to have a problem with tempo. What I would recommend is practice witha Metronome just like Fripp. If you don't know what I'm talking about pick up his show in Asi DVD, you'll get a whole new education.

Keep up the good work

Triana

[Stamen47]

Thanks, buddy. I'll have to pick up that DVD, seeing how I'm also a huge King Crimson/Fripp fan myself, and because I've always had a problem with tempo, which I have gotten better at over the years, but am by no means perfect. Thanks again!

[jasonmaliz]

I also consider myself the biggest fan. I'm going to see fripp and the league of crafty guitarists in two weeks. The place holds 300 so i'm pumped.

[Merjey]

NO ME!

Quick, let's have a spam war...

[KcSR74]

I won't consider myself as the biggest fan, maybe not a fan at all, just a fellow musician maybe. Because I know how much Fripp hates his fans :)

[LBW999]

Do you happen to know why he doesn't hold much respect towards his fans by the way? I can understand he finds noisy audiences and such annoying, but surely it isn't always like that.

[Liton777]

great song

[NastyGreaser]

you should practise it much more!!

there are plenties of mistakes.

but it´s the right way!

[UxioNoceda]

Not in which LP of this epoch there is a brutal topic qu this initiates with under and a box similar to this topic. The guitar is drawing short phrases, with chords or octavando, then it is complicated, with a guitar now tremendous, hard, cut, rabid, fantastic, and finally enters softly the moog and strings, not well ... i like remind her name

[UxioNoceda]

Ugly and past fashionable bottom and furniture it is necessary to take more care of the backstage ha ha ha is a joke! (?).

The song: well!. There are details that me sound strange... but marvellous work!. Beautifful song from KC an extraordinary voice of Weaton

[Merjey]

Wetton**

[MikeMusic1969]

*GASP* Right on!

[AlexMackinum]

Nice sound out of yer Strat...look fwd to more..thank you for posting

[muaddib272]

It is impossiblу! I very joy look it

[oldphoque]

WOW!

[magicgolem]

nice,really tightly played love the little added parts too--elephant talk the KC website has lots of tabs btw - the link is at the bottom of the page

[Stamen47]

Oh yeah, I've checked out that place a couple of times. It's a really great site!

[webgeek6]

very nice! well done!

[eagleclaw]

very nice. i love that song. you should get someone to sing alongside.

[derteufel81]

clap clap clap clap

[FungusFromUliJonRoth]

You're a beast.

[Stamen47]

Hummmmm....lets see, I learned it a while ago, so I don't exactly remember. I think I tried learning it off the live Nightwatch album, then compared what I came up with with some tabs, then sort of combined the two. I'd love to hear your version if you're willing to record it :). I'm thinking I should perhaps revamp my version, seeing how I've improved my aural skills since I learned it and can probably figure out the cool little technical doo-dads that Fripp does so well.

[prasiddha]

Awesome! Dammit, you got to covering the song first before I did! I was almost about to finish the song! Oh well..

It's amazing how even without vocals, this song sounds amazing...