Frame By Frame

King Crimson -- Frame by Frame

This is the 7/8 guitar part that Belew plays during the singing:

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----------2-----!----------2-----!-- ----------2-----!---------2-----!

--2---4-----4---!--2---4-----4---!- etc...--2---4-----4---!--2---4----4---!

----4---4-----4-!----4---4-----4-!-- ----3---3-----3-!----3---3----3-!

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----------2-----!----------2-----!----------5-----!

--2---4-----4---!--2---4-----4---!--5---7-----7---! repeat the same pattern

----2---2-----2-!----2---2-----2-!----7---7-----7-! at the 5th fret.

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The fripp line on top of the belew 7/8 is basically the same riff in

alternating bars of 6 and 7, but KEEPING THE SAME 8th note value.

This produces the funky intervals you hear... and you thought it

was a delay! (I know *I* did first time I heard it... 8-)).

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------------2-----|----------2----|

--2---4-------4---|--2---4--------|

----2---2-------2-|----2---2---2--|

------------------|---------------| etc. over the 7/8 above...

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The chording during fripps' wacked out picking in the intro and

between verses seems to be a barred 9th chord, dropping the

unison on the G string to the major 7th, ie

--2-----2--2----|

--2-----2--2----|

--4-----3--4----|

--4-----4--4----|

--2-----2--2----|

--2-----2--2----|

with appropriate whammy bar antics for the first chord, then up to a

Dsus2 (5th & 7th fretts) then again another 3rd.

Oh yeah, when the 13/8 and 7/8 fall back together, they play for

about 3 bars both in 7 *then* drop the bass note as noted above.

Some one is yet to figure out the "wacked out fripp part".