Kashmir · Led Zeppelin

174 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 8:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
8:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-41, 89-129 and 167-172 -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
KASHMIR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 58, 64, 68, 72, 74, 76 and 17 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 10 sections: 137 keep time, 23 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

CHORUS
PART D
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO 2
5 groovesANDBLFill 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 8:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. 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 23 times: bars 58, 64, 68, 72, 74, 76 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Led Zeppelin drum parts

EVERY LED ZEPPELIN CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →