Robert Fripp's Diary

Hotel Quite Good Menton The

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Hotel Quite Good, Menton.

The view from our room I…

Inspection of shop window I…

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A country with this many variations of glaces fruits may not care whether it’s governed or not.

Morning excitements I…

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Jumping, Running & Leaping Minx I…

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I have accepted that I am not quite as exciting as a 7-year fully-repairing lease.

Now back at the hotel, online at an extortionate rate, with the Minx at business meetings. The inbox has the question: what is the aim of Guitar Craft? There are many possible answers, or different forms of presenting the same answer;

In Guitar Craft terms...

Guitar Craft is three things:
A way to develop a relationship with the guitar;
A way to develop a relationship with music;
A way to develop a relationship with oneself.

So, the aim of Guitar Craft is to support each of us in developing a relationship with these three ways by providing the opportunities to acquire:

1.         an efficient technique for playing the guitar.
2.         musical experience; primarily, in performance.
3.         the elements of a personal practice.

As a musician:

The aim of a musician is to be an instrument, available & responsive, to the promptings of the musical impulse; that is, a human instrument, with functional capacity, able to hold themself in place while being played directly by Music.

As a discipline:

The aim of Guitar Craft, which we share with all disciplines, is simply stated: Right Conduct.

the clarity to see what is right;
knowing how to act rightly;
the capacity to act rightly.

16.10 The artwork in the hotel corridor to this room is intriguing I…

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… only two examples of a series, all signed Dali at the bottom. Perhaps these are Dali prints? Perhaps these are sheets of paper signed by Dali, with artwork added later?