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Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:54 pm**

Who can tell what time signature the main riff in Zeps Kashmir is?

I believe there have been debates over this a time or two.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:12 pm**

depends on how many BPM you consider the song to be.

One instance puts it in 4/4 (slow bpm)
other (in my opinion) faster bpm would put it in 3/4

BUT.. all songs are essentially in x/4 or x/8 patterns in the end anyways, so technically, it's all 4/4 if you slow the beat down enough :idea:

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:34 pm**

It's 3/4 time, the tuning is DADGAD and the fills are from the Maqam scale Hijaz

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:57 pm**

Its actually polyrythmic in my opinion.
4/4 time for the drums, but the riff is in 7/4 in my opinion if you count the rests as 'notes'.
So 12/8 time or 12/4, which technically is a funky way of playing 3/4.
But to say its in 3/4... meh... I dont agree with that.

Maybe I'm just completely off the mark!

Posted: **Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:11 am**

I can't think that much, :oops:

but I can play and sing it.

Posted: **Sat Dec 12, 2009 7:24 am**

Gol dang it...
I needs to go back to school and learns to add!

its 7/4 over 4/4. Pollyrythmic.

Forget all that nonsense I typed earlier.
:-p on the 3/4 believers.

Paul, I want to hear you do Kashmir

Posted: **Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:29 pm**

Generally music is either triple time or duple time or a combination of the two as in this instance.

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:20 pm**

OK Zip,
Now I got one for you and all the Bandmixerino time masters.

Some years back, I was listening to my favorite Sting album, "Mercury Falling" and when this song came on , My wife said "What kind of weird time is that drummer playing!"
My response was...
I have no Friggin' idea! :shock:

any suggestions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-MTqOIFzs

later,
Howlin

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:49 pm**

HowlinJ wrote:OK Zip,
Now I got one for you and all the Bandmixerino time masters.

Some years back, I was listening to my favorite Sting album, "Mercury Falling" and when this song came on , My wife said "What kind of weird time is that drummer playing!"
My response was...
I have no Friggin' idea!

any suggestions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-MTqOIFzs

later,
Howlin

9/8 easy

Posted: **Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:10 pm**

9/8 !

Thanks Etu! (you the man!)

Did you mean "easy" to figure out what it is, or "easy" to play?

anyways..

The next time I get to audition a drummer, I might just throw that at 'em! :twisted:

Howlin'

Posted: **Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:11 pm**

Yah, I would say 9/8 time.
Wasnt exactly easy for me to hear it though.
Im just a lowly guitar picker.

But wow... great song. Never heard it before.

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Led Zep Kashmir (name that time sig)

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