• Song:

    Knocked Up

  • Artist:

    Kings Of Leon

Band - Kings of Leon                  KEY: harmonics  *
Song - Knocked Up                          Slide      /
Album - Because of the times               hammer     h
                                           hold note  ~
Standard tuning EADGBe                     bend       b

Hi guys this is my first tab Ive seen them live a few times there just amazing so i have 
my best to capture that legendry Kings sound.
So weve got Caleb (guitar 2),Matthew (guitar 1) and ive stuck a few bass parts in there aswell.
Hope this sounds right for you,enjoy :)

Bass Intro
G -----------------------|
D --2-2--x4--/--6-6--x4--|
A -----------------------|
E -0-0------/-4-4--------|

Intro

Guitar 1  0:00 - 0:05  (lots of reverb)

e --12*-----             e ----------|
B ----------             B --17~-----|
G ----------      OR     G ----------|
D ----------             D ----------|
A ----------             A ----------|
E ----------             E ----------|

Verse

Guitar 1  0:24 - 0:51

e -12*--7*-------             e -----19-------|
B --------7*-----             B -17----19-----|
G ---------------      OR     G --------------|
D ---------------             D --------------|
A ---------------             A --------------|
E ---------------             E --------------|

                    And Then

e -12*--7*~-----              e -----19~-----|
B --------------              B -17----------|
G --------------              G -------------|
D --------------              D -------------|
A --------------              A -------------|
E --------------              E -------------|

Guitar 2 (little bit of distortion and reverb)

e -------------------------------|
B -------------------------------|
G -------------------------------|
D -------------------------------|
A ----2-2--2----------4--4-4-----|
E -0-------------0-0-------------|

e -------------------------------|
B -------------------------------|
G -------------------------------|
D -------------------------------|
A ----2-2--2----------4--4-4-----|
E -4-------------4-4-------------|

Chorus

Here on the chorus guitar 1 loops and just keeps playin while guitar 2 stops at each bar 
pretty hard to explain but just listen to the tune and you will get it.

e -----------------------|
B -----5--5-5-5-5-5-5-5--|
G -----6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6--|  x2
D -----6--6-6-6-6-6-6-6--|
A -----4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
E -----------------------|

e -----------------------|
B -----------------------|
G -----3--3-3-3-3-3-3-3--|  x2
D -----4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
A -----4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|
E -----2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2--|

Verse
Sometimes on the live shows Matthew plays about a bit wiv the lead parts.

Chorus

Bridge
Guitar 1
Bit tricky to pick this up cus of the tones of reverb and distortion.

e -------12------12------7-------7------12-----12------------7----|
B --/-12------/12--12\-7--------7-7/-12-----/12--12\-7-7b-----7b--|
G ----------------------------------------------------------------|
D ----------------------------------------------------------------|
A ----------------------------------------------------------------|
E ----------------------------------------------------------------|

e ---7------7/9---9/0--7-0-7b-------12-----7---7---7----|
B -7--7b/-------5-----7----------/12----/7----7-7---7b--|
G ------------------------------------------------------|
D ------------------------------------------------------|
A ------------------------------------------------------|
E ------------------------------------------------------|

All the time you still got guitar 2 playin the rythm loop.He plays wiv is a bit,mutes 
picks it slightly diffrently but anyway you get the point.

e ------------------------------|
B ------------------------------|
G ------------------------------|
D ------------------------------|
A ----2-2--2---------4--4-4-----|
E -0------------0-0-------------|

e ------------------------------|
B ------------------------------|
G ------------------------------|
D ------------------------------|
A ----2-2--2---------4--4-4-----|
E -4------------4-4-------------|

Then theres mainly instrumental parts which are just the same parts looped.

Guitar 1  4:57 - 5:20
e --1212-1212-1212-1212--77-77---------|
B ------------------------------77-77--|
G -------------------------------------|
D -------------------------------------|
A -------------------------------------|
E -------------------------------------|

e --1212-1212-1212-1212--77-77-------------/12----------------------12--|
B ------------------------------77-77/----------------------------------|
G ----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D ----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A ----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ----------------------------------------------------------------------|

And thats bout it quite a nice tune to play not to difficult
but a perfect tune from the kings.:)
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