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Jimmy Page, Jack White, & The Edge - Kashmir Chords





The riff for the song uses a non-standard guitar tuning, influenced by Page's interest in modal tunings and Arabic and Eastern music. The song combines different rhythmic meters: the guitar riff is in triple meter, while the vocal is in quadruple meter. Plant felt that the drumming was an important component of the song and that Bonham did not overplay his part.

Rock icons -- Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White -- from three different generations come together to discuss the electric guitar and their musical influences, Jimmy Page explains with his Danelectro double cut-away 3021—the same one he used in his Led Zeppelin days—the roots of the Roots of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir", a highlight of Led Zep's 1975 Physical Graffiti album.

Played in DADGAD tuning, which Page had previously used on the Yardbirds’ “White Summer” and Led Zeppelin’s “Black Mountain Side,” “Kashmir” is built around four mesmerizing riffs, three of which involve the use of open-string unison- and octave-doubled notes, which create a natural chorusing effect and a huge wall of sound.








Led Zeppelin - Kashmir



Lyrics


Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face Stars fill my dream I'm a traveler of both time and space To be where I have been Sit with elders of the gentle race This world has seldom seen They talk of days for which they sit and wait All will be revealed

Talk in song in tongues of lilting grace Sounds caress my ear There are not a word I heard could I relate Story was quite clear

Oh Oh Oh yeah I been flyin' Love oh ain't no denyin', no Oh, ooh yea, I been flyin' Mama, mama, ain't no denyin', no denyin'

All I see turns to brown As the sun burns the ground And my eyes fill with sand As I scan this wasted land Try to find, try to find what I feel

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon, I will return again Sure as the dust that floats high in June, when movin' through Kashmir

Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years With no provision but an open face, along the straits of fear Oh Oh

When I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah

Tryin' to find, tryin' to find where I been yeah, yeah Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, well I'm down Ooh, let me take you there



Songwriters: John Bonham / Robert Anthony Plant / James Patrick (Jimmy) Page

Kashmir lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc




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