How To Play '2022' With L.S. Dune's Frank Iero And Travis Stever

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Learn how to play “2022”, from L.S. Dunes' debut album, Past Lives.

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00:00Hey everybody, I'm Frank Iero. This is a run-through of the song 2022 by the new band L.A. Stoones.

00:10The record comes out 11-11-22 on Fantasy Records. The record is called Past Lives, and this

00:20is one of the singles off of that record called 2022. We're going to do a little bit of a

00:27tutorial and then a playthrough. This song for me is basically like a 2-3-4 minute solo.

00:40It's a lot of riffing happening, so bear with me and I'm going to try to show you everything

00:47that's happening. The first thing to say about this song is that when this song first came

00:55into the band, it was a song that Anthony Green, our singer, wrote. It was a very bare-bones demo.

01:04It was so beautiful and so heavy that he came into the band and said that he really wanted

01:11this band to take his demo and do something different with it and put the L.A. Stoones treatment

01:20on it, if you will. Tucker, I think, was the first one to jump onto the demo. With his drum beat,

01:28it was very telling exactly where we needed to go with this song. I remember hearing his

01:37syncopation when he came back with the drum track on Anthony's demo that I immediately

01:44went to play basically the chorus, if you will, like this. It's going to start on G.

01:52Basically, you're going to go offsetting those two for the chorus. Once we do that, I guess

02:17I'll stop and then come back for what the verses are because the verses are a lot of just...

02:23When I wrote the song or when I recorded my parts of the song, it was very improvisational.

02:29That's why I think you're getting so many different things for every verse.

03:17I'm

03:47back to your chorus. The first thing of that verse is sliding up from the D on your A string.

03:57Everything's in standard, by the way. You are going to need at least 22 frets for this

04:03guitar run-through, just so you know. By the way, I'm playing my Ernie Ball Stingray in

04:10a weird ghost metallic that my friend Tim Dove sent me. This is also a Mesa Rectifier

04:17Badlander that I'm playing through. Everything else is playing through my laptop.

04:23Let's see. You're in standard, you're on your A string, and you're going to start D, which

04:29is right here in position. Kind of doing one of those things, and then you slide up to your G.

04:49It's on the A string, and then here, you're going to slide up to your G string.

05:03High E.

05:12Then you'll walk it back down.

05:25Then back to your chorus.

05:31What I'm doing here is basically a G chord, D chord. When you get to that D, you're going

05:39to kind of keep that chord in place, but your low E string, you're going to fret here

05:46for a Bb, A, then you move.

06:05That's where we're at.

06:35A little bit of a difference.

06:49A little different here.

06:58Then we're going to go into a solo.

07:02Back to that solo section right here, which comes after that second verse.

07:06The second verse basically is played just a little bit quicker. It's essentially the

07:12same ascending progression, it's just a slight variation. Still staying on that D, but you're

07:20going to go quicker.

07:26Go back to the G here.

07:29Hang out.

07:33You're just kind of dancing around and playing around with that vocal.

07:36Again, with the call and response on the G string to D string.

07:46Then when you go up to that high, you're going to go a little bit quicker.

07:51Walk right down.

07:54Back up to the 25th fret.

07:57And then it comes into this, I guess, a solo of a solo, right?

08:22So I'll play that in time.

08:28Try and get it.

08:35And then a solo.

08:57Then we're just going to take a knee.

09:10Let Anthony and the drums take it off from there.

09:13Travis comes in with a picked out part.

09:16I think there's a little bit of a pull-off or a tapping.

09:23Then we're going to come back in here around three minutes, five seconds.

09:28And there'll be a pick-string.

09:38Take a rest until about 3.05 where the pick-string comes in.

09:43A little bit of a pull-off here.

10:13And the last chorus.

10:43And that's it.

10:53Hey, I'm Travis Stever from L.S. Dunes.

10:56I'm going to do a rundown of the song 2022 from the upcoming album, Past Lives.

11:02This song in particular is quite different than the rest of them

11:06in the sense that it was already a song that Anthony had

11:10and he presented it to us as a demo which had beautiful instrumentation on it

11:15but it was very bare-bones and he said,

11:17I would like you guys to rewrite this song musically to the vocals basically,

11:22which we did.

11:24There was one part on it that does come in and out that we all agreed

11:27we wanted to keep on the version that we were doing

11:32and it was a finger-picking.

11:36Which starts in, it's a G minor finger-picking kind of run.

11:40I learned it.

11:42So this is how I play it and I've taken it up live.

11:48But how I play it is I start.

11:56So it starts up on the 7th fret on the G string on the D.

12:017th fret on the G string on the D.

12:04Well, it's on the G string but D on the G string on the 7th fret.

12:24So we'll come back to that because that finger-picking does dip in and out

12:29but the rest of the stuff that I performed on it and Frank performed on it

12:34was what we built and what we wrote to Anthony's vocals

12:39and to what Tucker and Tim wound up playing as well.

12:42I believe that Frank had the chords,

12:47the notes and chords that he was striking on the verse

12:51and I just wrote my part to that

12:54which starts, I start also on the 7th fret.

12:59I'll play the part regular speed and then we'll slow it down but...

13:12So I'll come up, do it a little slower.

13:15I'm starting on the 7th fret going up a half step.

13:19Going up to the D string, onto the 8th, 7th, 10th, back to the 7th

13:34and keeping a steady, that's the part the whole time, keeping it steady.

13:48Very primal picking approach.

13:57So I'll play it along with the song, it does that the whole verse.

14:01Here we go.

14:18So I'll play it along with the song.

14:48So I'll play it along with the song.

15:07So, stop it now.

15:11That verse part stays the same like I said the whole time.

15:19After that, what I guess you would call kind of like,

15:26you know, the chorus, pre-chorus.

15:30I mean the song is very interesting in the way that it's also arranged.

15:34I'm not sure what to call exactly the chorus a lot of the time

15:38which I think is really cool.

15:41Basically, right after that what I'd call the verse

15:46we go into what could be the chorus or a pre-chorus

15:50if you think the breakdown is, I'm not sure, but anyway

15:53what I'm playing there is sort of an octave kind of thing

15:56which starts on the 5th fret on the D string

16:00and then you also on the 8th fret or on the B string

16:05one of these kind of octave joints which I tend to use a lot

16:11and so it's...

16:20That's adding the open.

16:26With a little bit of like...

16:29So that's how I'm striking. Just stabs.

16:49Starting on that 5th fret, doing the octave thing on there

16:54and then continuing with the same structure going up to the 8th

16:59back down to 7th

17:02all the way up to the 10th

17:053rd

17:07So that's basically how I'm doing that

17:09and then it goes back into the finger picking.

17:11We're going to continue the song, playing it.

17:14I do basically the same things until I reach a finger tapping part

17:19basically.

17:21So here we go.

17:25This.

17:27And...

17:55So...

17:58So...

18:21Back to the finger picking.

18:28Hey, so this is part 2 of 2022.

18:34I got cut off there but I think everything else was really usable.

18:37We're right here in the finger picking part

18:44that I was talking about at the beginning of part 1

18:47where it's pretty dominant in this part

18:50but Frank is playing a lot of lead stuff

18:53and I added a little bit of guitar which we'll get into in a second

18:57but this is the same part that we were describing before

19:00which starts off on this G minor area right here

19:11and stays doing that

19:13and above it I added a...

19:15A...

19:24So you can hear that coming here.

19:28So...

19:42Now it's just chords.

19:48Now it's just going to be chords.

19:58So that's how I'm playing.

20:14So that's how I've adopted it live

20:17to try and capture what the whole thing that's being played right here

20:20when it breaks down.

20:27So...

20:33Then I come in with this.

20:57So...

21:23Basically the finger tapping part

21:25is still the same chord that I described before.

21:29It starts there but instead of doing the finger picking

21:32I am doing this.

21:35Up on the 15th fret.

21:45Still keeping my fingers and then I'm adding my pinky

21:48up onto the 8th fret on the high E.

21:52The whole time basically utilizing on this...

22:00on the 15th fret.

22:22And then I come back in with the same chord progression.

22:26All octave chords.

22:39And that's that. Part 3 of 2022.

22:42So the end of the song.

22:44I'm splitting them up into these three parts

22:46so it's easy for you guys to throw together.

22:51So the end of the song is the same as the first and second verse.

22:56I basically just end out the exact same way.

23:21Ends on that good old octave.

23:28Same old thing we were working on.

23:31Just ends on...

23:33And that's it.

23:35That's pretty much all the parts.

23:37I hope you guys enjoyed it.

23:39I'll see you next time.

23:41Bye.

23:50I hope this works.

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