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Kashmir · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 19 OF 58
Run D1 · Part D (bars 45-70)
139 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kashmir on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
8:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx--x---xx--x---|
Kashmir -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-155 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-86 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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