so guess who was learning to play drums to Led Zeppelin's Kashmir today?

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Led Zeppelin - Kashmir I'd been learning to do that for about three classes without realizing it, and today my drum teach was like, I think you are ready to play along to the radio now and I did! I mean, I made mistakes and all but I held on the to the beat of the song for the most part until our dear drummer started mixing it up! Let me tell you, my smile is big and round and and will. not. quit.

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So when I went looking for Memphis Minnie, Led Zeppelin popped up, cause they have covered and were influenced by some of her songs. And with them came up the Zepparellas, an all women cover band. So have another song and an interview:

Led Zeppelin When The Levee Breaks by Zepparella

Interview with Zepparella - Teri Merchant

BAND MEMBERS:

Anna Kristina - Lead Vocals
Gretchen Menn - Guitar
Nila Minnerock - Bass
Clementine - Drums

I've been looking over your bios and listening to the music on your web sites. Very impressive! I'm a huge Led Zeppelin fan, so I'm looking forward to learning more about the four of you and what you're doing with your music. So, let's start with where were you all born and raised?


Gretchen: Palo Alto, California

Nila: Northern coast town in Germany, on a horse farm.

Anna: Born in L.A., but not from there...mostly Northern California

Clem: Born in So. Cal, spent most of my adult life in NYC


At what age did you start playing music?
Gretchen: I always had access to musical instruments-- piano, flute, clarinet, trumpet--but didn't start playing guitar until I took up classical guitar in college. I was just about to turn 19.

Nila: 21


Anna: 5 or 6 started piano at 8 years old


Clem: Started piano at 8 years old.MORE

Zepparella "The Lemon Song" Promotional Video

Or Two: [Drumer] Clementine On playing Zeppelin

I first fell in love with Led Zeppelin as a youngster listening to KMET radio in Southern California. They played “Zeppelin A to Z” one weekend, and I stayed up for 3 days recording the entire thing onto cassette tapes. (I still don’t know which songs are on which record. I just know them alphabetically.) Those tapes were the soundtrack of my life for many years.

When I started playing drums much later, I realized how much my love of Zeppelin had to do with the drums. And Bonham’s style must have sunk in over the years. The first time I ever recorded with a band, after I’d been playing for about a year, the bass player told me, “I’ve played with over 100 drummers in my career, and your feel is the closest to Bonham’s that I’ve ever played with.” That’s my very favorite compliment, though I still think he might have been blowing a little smoke.

Even with that I didn’t consider the idea that I could ever really play Bonham. I brought in The Ocean transcription to my drum teacher at one point, and although I learned most of the song, the bass drum triplets seemed unimaginable, and the subtleties of the feel were so deep that I put the idea of learning more Bonham on the far future burner. It was too sacred for me to attempt when I wasn’t ready. I didn’t guess at that time that I’d ever be on stage forcing my foot into one Ocean triplet attempt after another! MORE

How is everyone else's learning to play or sing going? Let's celebrate or moan horribly together!