Why This Song Is Impactful #41: Led Zeppelin "Kashmir"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Apparently all four members of Led Zeppelin agree that "Kashmir" is a special song. Let's find out why that is, by analyzing what's going on musically in this song.
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The best Led Zeppelin songs have more killer riffs in one song than most bands have in their entire discographies. 8-)
It's certainly rich, for sure. Jimmy Page put in a lot of creativity into constructing his songs and guitar parts, something I try to do with my own songs.
That mid phrase tonal shift at the end is found a lot in classical Indian music. More often in the vocals than the instrumentation. Great breakdown of a an epic song 😊
Thank you!
You have my same name : )
@@skepthicc692 Cheers :)
@@HariKrishnan-kx1is Malayali ? :P
This video should have more likes!
Thanks David! Please share the video -- you can help me change that!
This song will be played at my funeral. It takes me on a trip in my mind every time I hear it.
I just found your channel. Great musical appreciation. The first time I tuned my guitar to play this, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. I hadn't considered playing it like you did, but I will now.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I'm conservative around alternate tunings -- I've spent so much time learning the fretboard that I try to wring out every ounce of possibility without changing tunings. That said I can totally see how some people see it as a liberation and exploration. I may get into that down the road.
Great discussion of a unique song. You captured all those interesting harmonic twists and helped me appreciate the song even more.
Thanks Wayne!
You articulated what I wanted to say
That is a wonderful exposition. Thanks Ari. We are currently trying to arrange it for a bunch of ukulele players (which we call a ukestra).
oh wow that sounds fun! Send me a link if you post a video of the performance. 😁
Just figured out the push pull thing you explained with the 3/8 4/8 beats. Like Escher musically. “Is he ahead or behind” I used to ask. Thanks again
Yes! Push/pull... I feel the tension!
Brilliant analysis. Thanks for putting the time in so I didn't have too :). Very fun to play around with... and deceptively difficult song.
Thanks Adam!
You are Very Smart and Very talented! Thank You so much for sharing your knowledge !❤️
Really love your analysis of the songs Ari, keep it up!
Thank you Kevin!
This is why Led Zeppelin was so good! The chemistry between John Bonham's drums in its 4/4 beat, and Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones on strings in 3/4 is just incredible! This song is great, and you greatly explained why! Great job!
Thank you!
Hey, brother. That was most excellent. Thank you
I'm guessing but, you are Kazakhstani?
I detect the Russian
And Bonham is my favorite Rock drummers of all time
No, Japanese.
Just stumbled onto your channel...Great break down of this song. Kashmir is, and always has been, at the top of the list of my favorite songs! Thanks for this! I subscribed to your channel.
Thanks Peter! My channel is a bit all over the place now but I already have many more videos in this vein, including a few more classic Zep songs! Enjoy!
Thank you for another excellent video! I am glad to hear you talk about the different time feels between the drums and the band in the beginning, I never noticed it when I first listened to Led Zeppelin, but it is really one of their defining characteristics, on other songs as well.
Thank you! Yeah I found it illuminating when I played that riff against a 3/8 (or it could be 6/8) meter on metronome, it makes it pretty clear how different parts are written with different time signatures. And you know, it is not a hard thing to experiment with once you know that's what's going on. Maybe I'll do a video demonstrating how to construct a polyrhythmic song. It's really fun.
Today i feel like i explored about music a lot
Glad to hear it
Please...... You have to do one on NO QUARTER 😀😀😍😍
Great breakdown, Ari. Looking forward to catching up on all your other videos. Can you tell me why the section where they move between Gm and A sounds so exotic - which key does it imply?
Thanks! The Gm and A don't imply any key, they are totally unrelated chords. So yeah, they sound exotic and dissonant.
@@AriKoinuma does the Gm chord include its 5th (D) because if it does I guess moving that to the 3rd of A (C#) is what pushes the dissonance - having the b5 of the G chord involved.
@@logman5357 Actually the most dissonance part is the fact that Gm has Bb, which is half step/flat second above A. And Flat Two is one of the most dissonant notes.
But beyond that, a minor chord with a major chord a full step above is a combination that doesn't happen in either major or minor scales. So it just sounds odd and unfamiliar.
@@AriKoinuma thank you, that makes a lot of sense. I really appreciate you taking the time to help educate me 👍
They line up every 12 beats. It's pretty cool with Jimmy in 3/3 and Bonzo in 4/4.
Agreed!
Greatest rock song of all time
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Nice explanation. Glad you focused on structure. Fwiw- many riffs page played were chromatically made up to play over something Bonham played on drums.. in Kashmir- the story is Bonham whispered in pages ear the first riff (da da da,da da). Example where the Bonham riff remains in song on drums is “out on the tiles” intro.when page literally plays over a drum riff.
Also- they were into eastern melodies, yet played them on western instruments.. which is interesting to me. Wonder how much Jones actually arranged in it. Thanks again.
Well what i heard was page wrote that riff for swan song backwards last riff being the first and he developed that riff for many years
Celebration Day's Kashmir is the best ever.
Yeah I’ve seen it, I agree Rob.
Well done
Thanks!
Nice job explaining. Can you do more Led Zeppelin and some Iron maiden? I'd really like to see you analyzing the "empire of the clouds"
Thanks Poseidon. I'll have to think about Iron Maiden -- actually not that familiar with their catalog.
Holy crap when he did that In the beginning I shited my self I only thot legends of rock can make that (Led Zeppelin) but no i was completely wrong
Random Name anyone can play anything it’s all up to how much you practiced
Me gustan estos japoneses... aplicados con la cosa... que te hacen feliz a alguna hora en la madrugada...
Cool video only one thing is wrong. Page used a danelectro 66 with the lipstick pickups and IT DOES HAVE A DIFFERENT TONE BUT I AGREE WITH MOST OF YOUR ASSUMPTIONS, CONCLUSIONS AND OPINIONS. YOU CAN GRAB THAT 66 REISSUE FOR ABOUT 500us$ AND CHANGE. Get a tele, a strat, the gibson and the danelectro your there guitar wise. Get his modes [how he takes of the top end] and amps and heads plus a Lesley rotary cab and then all you need is the talent/production skills of 30-40 years in session playing and gigging in europe and your about there. Well then theres being in a dark church and maybe selling your soul and then i think you might have what page had when he recorded Physical Graffeti. Oh wait luck and looks might help to but thats just my assumptions, findings, Opinion and thoughts yet only maybe a few things i forgot. A Bonham, a plant and a very under rated JpJ holding down the bottom the mid the top and one hell of a player. Im sure having Peter Grant helped page on some small level as well. Maybe a chick as cool as Pamela but the best groupie of all time may be too much for you too handle but yeah sure your really close my friend. Killer video and thank you for your time!
We get it you’re obsessed.
the group of three, are sixteens triplets o sixteens,
I wonder,rhythms.
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