Kaki King - Doing the Wrong Thing Guitar Lesson
Doing the Wrong Thing
Kaki King teaches her song "Doing the Wrong Thing."
Taught by Kaki King in Songs with Kaki King seriesLength: 22:48Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
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Songs with Kaki King
Found in our Beginner Lesson SetsKaki King teaches the songs that span her career.
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Doing the Wrong Thing
Kaki King teaches her song "Doing the Wrong Thing."
Length: 22:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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About Kaki King
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Kaki King (born Katherine Elizabeth King) was born in Atlanta, Georgia on August 24th, 1979. Showing early aptitude for music, Kaki was initially introduced to guitar and soon after the drums. Kaki has been active in the music industry since around 2001. Her first studio album, Everybody Loves You, was released on Velour Records in 2003. Since that time Kaki has released four additional records with another due out later this year (2010). She has quest appeared on the Foo Fighter's album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, as well as contributing to film scores such as August Rush. Kaki was named in February of 2006 a "Guitar God" by Rolling Stone Magazine. Other notable accomplishments include a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score for music from "Into the Wild."
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Discussions with our instructors are just one of the many benefits of becoming a member of JamPlay.grab a bigga spanna nanna an a bigga bugga digga... smak da digga wit da spanna Bugga nanna, spanna digga!
Sweet song and sweet lesson, Jamplay has the best format and its great to have such talent teach us . Thanks Kaki and J.P.
wow that was beautiful (: i like that!
the bit that she does at 3:01 - 3:05 isn't in the tabs. I'm kind of new to guitar so i cant really see what she's doing, can anyone tell me?
I am impressed by your playing! Are those nails on your right hand real?
Great lesson ... is supplemental content/tab coming?
Yes, the supplemental content will be coming for this.
Hey gang! I just thought I'd mention a few things about the tabs I did for this. The tabs are NOT an exact, note-for-note transcription of what Kaki plays in the first scene. I didn't notate out all of the percussion parts as they are performed in this scene. Instead, whenever she plays percussion-esque stuff, I just inserted the basic rhythmic idea that she improvises around. If you have any questions about the tabs that I'm doing for Kaki's lessons, feel free to send me a message or jump into one of my Q+A sessions. Thanks and have fun with this one!!
Thank you so very much. It's an honor!
WOW!!! I don't quite know what to say. Words can not describe art any better than this....Thank you for helping me rediscover my inspiration to play.
Beautiful.
Amazing song!