Song · DADGAD tuning

Kashmir — Led Zeppelin

Most of this riff stays anchored on D — a low drone that barely moves while the chord built on top of it keeps reshaping: a suspended fourth resolves to a plain triad, then colors through a minor seventh. In the middle, the bass holds D while the chord above briefly becomes A minor (that's the "/D" in Am/D — a different chord, same held bass note). The riff then works back through a run of D-rooted color changes before two real root changes — up to G, then to A⁠#⁠ — resolve back down to D minor.

DADGAD makes the D-rooted half of this almost free: with three strings already tuned to D, most of those shapes need only one or two fretted notes — the rest rings open.

This is the riff/bridge chord sequence as commonly transcribed, not a note-for-note copy of any one tab — open the progression below to see (and hear) each shape in DADGAD, including the real Am/D bass voicing, then explore your own voicings from there.