Kashmir · Led Zeppelin

197 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 8:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
8:39
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-24, 28-30 and 32-42, and 7 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
KASHMIR · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 31, 43, 70, 76, 80, 84 and 24 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 6 sections: 159 keep time and 30 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAKFCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kashmir?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Kashmir hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 8:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Kashmir?

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 31, 43, 70, 76, 80, 84 and 24 more.

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