King Crimson: Indiscipline - Chapman Stick part

So here’s Tony Levin’s Stick part from the iconic song on Discipline! In the background you can hear a concert recording from the 1982 Frejus show. The original studio version is pretty straightforward - there are really only two themes going into it, the 8/4 verse and the tutti, which is 8/4 (scored as 12/8) and 5/4 at once. This concert version is much more exciting: there are several small figures happening here in the verses as well, but Levin mainly handles the tutti sections very improvisationally! The part of the left hand is the stable base all the way, but the right hand is very free - it’s an amazingly difficult task to do this afterwards, but, you can try! :)
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