Failure to Fracture
Learning King Crimson’s Impossible Song
I spent 22 years learning one of the hardest songs ever written for guitar. This is the 320-page story about how and why it took so long to learn one song.
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Fracture is impossible to play
My father challenged me to learn King Crimson’s 11-minute epic “Fracture” when I was 16 years old in 1998.
It was the only song that physically hurt to play. It required something I didn’t have and couldn’t figure out.
18 years later, the song’s composer wrote “Fracture is impossible to play.” That explained a few things.