King Crimson - Fracture (Guitar cover by Viktor Tanaskovski)

Hello!
I am Viktor Tanaskovski, a musician from Skopje, Macedonia.
Here's my humble cover of this masterpiece by Mr. Robert Fripp, off of King Crimson's 1974 album "Starless and Bible Black".
If you are interested in my own music as well, you can check out my original work with the bands Alembic and Minstrel's Gallery.
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Improof
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Thanks for watching!
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[@andreassiegel4727]

Congratulation. Mastering ths piece is an achievment truly.

[@tammy1001]

Nice work. You even look like him! 😃

[@61hink]

I think Adrian Belew needs to have you on call for backup on the Beat tour. I'm only half kidding. You should send him a tape. I've seen Adrian Belew live and he plays KC stuff but something is missing, obviously. Just send him the Fripp part of 'Frame by Frame' or 'Elephant Talk' or 'Matte Kudasai.' He might invite you to tour with him after his gig with Steve Vai is over.

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Thank you very much my friend, and I will surely consider this option :)

[@MakeWeirdMusic]

Amazing work!!

[@roelsiebrand7181]

You nailed it.

[@juanchotpee2]

Looks like a lot of hard work went into practicing this madness. Incredibly well done, loved the playing and the tones. Great video. Super impressed 👍

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Thanks 🙏 It took about two years of actual practicing of the song, and maybe 7 more years of mental preparation :D

[@juanchotpee2]

@@viktortanaskovski5419 it's not the practice before it that would worry me, it'd be the years of therapy after it haha. Again mate, super impressed. Nice one.

[@sam-lz6pi]

Truly impressive. Congratulations! This piece is fiendishly difficult.

[@joan2cat]

Bonissim. De part d'un admirador de King Crimsom i amant d'aquest tema

[@roycegrubic2620]

Impressive! I wouldn't think a stratocaster is the ideal guitar for that either...

[@gbernardwandel4174]

My oh my! 👍🏽🖖🏽

[@harounel-poussah6936]

Scalloped fretboard????? I think that Robert would be baffled both by your pick holding and the fact you don't use a triangle pick: he considers it's impossible to play it in such conditions... Well, not so long ago, he considered it as impossible to play at all, he himself needed to practise it 5 hours a day to be able to play it live, BTW, even on Starless, it's a live take, KC never played it in a recording studio... Despite I bought "Failure to Fracture", I definitively don't have the courage to get involved: it's really terrifying, even worse than I thought!

[@larsnorqvist6905]

I knew i would give thumbs up for this one just after the few first bars. then we came tothe seventh minute ... wow ... this cover is performed with such a high degree of musicality not just technique!

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Thank you my friend, I appreciate it a lot

[@polygraphovich]

Incredibile playing. Wonderful tone as well.

[@Don.G.Prince]

Wow, amazingly executed .. I enjoyed this very much

[@mediocrefunkybeat]

Really, really excellent.

[@teledan105]

Excellent

[@artzvuk1103]

Красота !!! На Фрипа даже похожь

[@mykola_iegorov]

Wow!

[@randymarkley5634]

Wow! Excellent!

[@markcat1]

Gotta love those terror runs

[@blatneyev3740]

Outstanding!

[@_Helm_]

what a godly achievement! congratulations.

[@frederickkrug5420]

Amazing

[@levsluzhitel1693]

Убавината. Great job! 🔥

[@doctorinthezone3494]

Clean and beautifully articulated. As someone who's attempted the piece themselves I have to ask about your picking grip, as, I'll be frank, it looks abominably painful 😖

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Hahaha thank you, and as for the picking grip, I know it is weird. I don't know how and why, but when I started learning the guitar (2007), I probably misunderstood something about the way one is supposed to hold the pick, and the right angle to hit the strings (bending the pick towards the bridge, not the neck). But I've developed this "bad" habit and now it is impossible for me to play any other way. Luckily, it is not as painful as it looks :D

[@brianspencer8557]

This is reason to pick it up again. You are a killer! Fripp is all red in the face thinking about this video. Amazing!!!

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Thank you so much! I am glad you find it inspiring. Cheers!

[@cadencooper1828]

Amazing tone. Sounds just like the original

[@yoichim5915]

Perfect cover. Amazing!

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Thank you!

[@mittridgebibimix7809]

👏👏👏 bravo!!

[@WayneThePoet]

Well done man, wow!

[@darsaana]

Excellent Viktor

[@WuesWues-y3r]

Great job!

[@brucechambers9390]

Bravo

[@iamoneofus4653]

Great performance

[@michaelpaulus126]

incredible!!!!!

[@wonderofu5536]

Esto está hermoso!!!

[@RealVintage1]

Muy bien, bravo!

[@patrickhaynes3090]

Very nice!

[@philippecirse4872]

Դա այս հին վայրի աշխարհի առաջարկներն էին > ապրել, կիսվել, զբաղեցնել, զվարճանալ և միասին ապրել: Ցավոք, մենք այնքան կենտրոնացած ենք եղել ժամանակների փոփոխության վրա, որ ժամանակ կամ գիտակցություն չենք ունեցել ինքնակազմակերպվելու, բայց ոգին դեռ կա

[@banquefinancekft5580]

BRAVOOOOOOOO

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

🙏

[@totitorruella]

Amazing!

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Thank you!

[@davidleibnitz153]

Excellent. Maybe try to add those rare low notes in part one.

[@davidleibnitz153]

I believe it can be done on an open string

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

@@davidleibnitz153 I think I know what you mean, and I am playing those (just an open E string). The deal is that, as far as I know, Fripp played this with a volume pedal which he was opening all the way up on those notes. In my case, I had to play the whole part one with a cleaner sound, so the lack of gain makes those notes somewhat inaudible. Regards!

[@mateuszzz7256]

MAN! you know what you have just done? How much did it take to learn that? how many years? When was the first time you heard fracture?

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Thank you very much, I appreciate it. I believe the first time I heard it was ten years ago, but I didn't dare trying to learn it until much later. The first time I sat down to learn the whole thing was 2020, and than I've been practicing slowly for two years straight, with some breaks in between. Regards!

[@leolacerda2581]

Uol😮

[@victormiranda417]

😍👏👏👏👏👏😍

[@PossiblyTheRealSirSqualo]

The picking… I- how?-

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Honestly, I don't know. Since I started learning I developed a bad habit, instead of tilting the pick towards the bridge, I tilt it towards the neck of the guitar. I know that for playing fast, the "rule" is to have all your fingers in a fist and tilt the pick the other way, but somehow (read: with years and years of practice), this eventually worked out just fine :D

[@МаксимМаршуков]

Поляк или русский?

[@viktortanaskovski5419]

Skopje, Macedonia :)

[@jdmresearch]

Wow!