Kashmir off of Physical Graffiti 1975 just an awesome song you know as a listener always loved this song just because it's so heavy and so powerful um so driving you know but as a musician uh I mean I like it even more just because there's so many cool interesting things going on musically right um so anyways we're in dad guide for this okay so D, A, D. You're tuning that low E string to D. D, A, D. And then G, A, D. G string stays with G. B string, A. D string, or E string comes down to D.
So, D, A, D. Jimmy Page did a bunch of stuff in Dad Get. It's kind of an old Celtic, Celtic kind of a tuning. Modal tuning is what they call it.
But anyway, so we've got four sections that we need to learn to play this. The first one is... Before I get going on showing you the fingerings and stuff, the coolest thing about the song is that this lick is in 6-8 and the drums are in 4-4, right?
So... To me, that's the coolest thing of the song. Because if you really listen as a musician to what's going on, the lick starts, the kick drum, pretty well always in rock music, it's on the 1 and the 3, snare, 2, 4. But as this lick progresses in 6, 8, what happens is the beat turns upside down. And every other cycle, the snare is on the 1. So it kind of gives it that circulating...
feel and I just find that really awesome but it's kind of typical of Led Zeppelin they were really into doing stuff like that whether it was intentional or just happened that way who cares right it's awesome anyways so what we're going to do here is really in this main lick we're only going to be playing two strings most of the time and throwing the occasional low d in there So what we've got is we've got this. We're going to hold this D note on A5 for the whole lick. Okay, it's there the whole time.
And on the G string, we're going to start here, going to go up one, up another, up another, and end up up here. Okay, so that'll be our first formation. And we're going to mute that D string with the tip of our little finger.
Not the tip, but the fleshy part of our little finger. So we're only getting those strings. Now you could play that open D.
It wouldn't matter. But for me, I chose to do it with just the two strings because I think that's what he's doing. So we've got... Moving up, right?
And then we change fingers, so we've got our second finger on the A string now. First finger on G4. And then move it up one more. And then finish up here. Right, because that note stays the same throughout the whole thing.
So we've got... Okay, so I'll go over the strumming in a second. So that's the cycle. And actually, when you go to that high part, that's not the end of the cycle.
That's the beginning of the next cycle. That's another cool thing about it, right? Because you kind of feel that that's the end of it, but it's not. It's the beginning of the next cycle. Only instead of having it...
It's... Right, it's the octave of that so we're just splitting the bar, right? So now the strumming It's like 1 2 3 down up down rest Then down up down low E rest Right And to me that's really important that you don't go You know hitting that low E every time or I see some guys just play it like They never hit the low E right okay so really important I think to um to get that strumming on the money it'll make it sound really clean okay so let's just go over that once Okay, and then it just keeps going. So that's how you do that. Now, we'll go over that other lick.
Okay, super cool lick. So what we're doing there is we're going to play that opening the whole time. We're going to go...
Right, just 12, 11, 12, 14, 12, 11, 12, 9. But when we end up that last one, we're also going to hit the octave here on G11. And I just go up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. And I overdubbed that when I did the demo, but if you're playing this live in a one guitar band, you have to do that yourself, right? So it'd be sort of like... Right, you just kind of have to squeeze it in there.
Okay, so that's the main lick. Now we're going to go into this lick. And there's a lot going on there, like sonically, right? But technically, it's really not hard at all.
So what we've got there is we've got G12 and E12. And we're only going to play the last four strings. If you hit those two, it won't matter.
It'll muddy it up a bit. Okay, so you try not to, but if you hit them, no problem. And we've got this, right?
Just dropping that from there to there one fret And this lick is that in different spots, but that said that's the fingering. It's really easy really simple So we've got 12th fret then we've got 10th fret And then we've got 7, 5, 3, and then F, E, D. You know, third fret of the D string, second fret open. So, and the whole time we're playing that open B, right?
and if you watch the live videos he kind of goes up on it the strumming you could just go go down as well right when i did the demo i doubled the guitar part and one i downstroke the other i did that upstroke okay so coming out of that we're back into the lick okay but the thing is uh we're not here Right? Because the lick has gone past that. We're here. We're in that second chord of the lick. Okay?
So, coming out of here. Right? And then we carry on from there.
Okay? So, from this part. back into the main lick.
We go through that a bunch of times and then we go through that a bunch of times and the next section would come out of this and that's F, E, D open A, A2 open D. I do all downstrokes on that and then we've got this A power chord where we're just going to play A, D, and G and just add that D4 and then I go, I play this chord here, just a bar on 7 and G9 and I slide that down okay I'm not sure what he's doing there, I think he might just be going here I'd just be going Okay, I'm not sure what he does there, but this works really well. Especially if you're playing it without an orchestra. Or a keyboard player, because you're adding a little fullness there.
Okay, so from here... Nothing. and then we do that again right and then that goes a bunch of times and then we we get into that again okay and then the next section would be we go to this G chord that's Jimmy does it like this you're gonna mute that a string though So it's E5, open G, B5, E5. I like to play it like that, I just find that easier to get to. And that, I just, you just vamp there, right?
And then the next chord is going to be here. Which is open A, D2, mute to G string with your middle finger, open B, and E1. It's like an A power chord. From here to here.
And then we're... And that just goes to the end of the song. Okay, so those are all the four parts, including...
Really super cool lick, right? So that's it. That's all there is to Kashmir, right? You know, when you listen to it, it's just so huge and so epic. But when you break it down and get the right tuning and the right fingerings, it's really not hard to play.
And awesome song. And like I said earlier, the coolest thing to me is... What does that look like? It would be like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4 against the 4-4 drums that kind of makes the song.
It's just awesome. Great, great writing. So creative. I just love it.
Anyways, that's it. Hope you get something out of it. And yeah, we'll talk to you next time. Thanks for watching