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 Iguro.

00:02This is a run-through of the song 2022 by the new band L.S. Dunes.

00:10The record comes out 11-11-22 on Fantasy Records.

00:17The record is called Past Lives.

00:19And this is one of the singles off of that record called 2022.

00:24We're going to do a little bit of, I guess, a tutorial and then a playthrough.

00:29This song for me is basically like a two to how many minutes is this?

00:37A three-minute solo? Basically a four-minute solo.

00:40It's a lot of riffing happening.

00:44So bear with me and I'm going to try to show you everything that's happening.

00:49The first, I guess, thing to say about this song is that when this song first came into the band,

00:55it was a song that Anthony Green, our singer, wrote.

01:00It 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 this band

01:12to kind of take his demo and do something different with it

01:16and kind of put the L.S. Dunes treatment on it, if you will.

01:21So Tucker, I think, was the first one to jump onto the demo.

01:25And with his drum beat, it was very telling exactly where we needed to go with this song.

01:32And so I remember hearing his syncopation when he came back with that track,

01:40the drum track on Anthony's demo,

01:43that I immediately went to play basically the chorus, if you will, like this.

01:50So it's going to start on G.

01:52So basically you're going to go offsetting those two for the chorus.

02:14So once we do that, I guess then I'll stop and then come back for what the verses are

02:19because the verses are allowed just...

02:22When I wrote the song or when I recorded my parts of the song,

02:26it was very improvisational.

02:28So that's why I think you're getting so many different things for every verse.

02:35I'm not afraid to go

02:38I'm not afraid to go

03:08I'm not afraid to go

03:38And back to your chorus.

03:48So the first thing of that verse is kind of sliding up from the D on your A string here.

03:56Everything's in standard, by the way.

03:58You are going to need at least 22 frets for this guitar run-through.

04:04Just so you know.

04:06By the way, I'm playing my Ernie Ball Stingray

04:08in a weird ghost metallic that my friend Tim Dove sent me.

04:13And this is also a Mesa Rectifier Badlander that I'm playing through.

04:20Everything I was playing through, everybody leapt up.

04:22So let's see.

04:24So you're in standard, you're on your A string, and you're going to start D, which is in the

04:30right here position.

04:31Kind of doing one of those things, and then you slide up to your G.

04:41It's on the A string, and then here, you're going to slide up to your G string.

04:52And then you'll lock it back down.

05:13And then back to your chorus.

05:31What I'm doing here is basically G chord, D chord, and when you get to that D, you're

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

05:45for like a B flat, A, and then you move.

06:04One of those.

06:05All right, so whatever.

06:09All right, so let's go.

06:39A little bit of a difference.

06:49A little different here.

06:50And then we're going to go into a solo.

07:01All right, so back to that solo section right here, which comes after that second verse.

07:06So the second verse basically is played just a little bit quicker.

07:09It's essentially the same ascending progression.

07:15It's just a slight variation.

07:17So still staying on that D, but you're going to go quicker.

07:21And then we're going to go back to the G here.

07:28Hang out.

07:29You're just kind of dancing around and playing around with that vocal.

07:35Again, again, with the walk, the kind of like call and response on the G string to D string.

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

07:48Walk right down.

07:51Back up to the 20th second fret.

07:56And then it comes into this, I guess, a solo of a solo, right?

08:00And then it comes into this, I guess, a solo of a solo, right?

08:24So put that in time.

08:26And then.

08:49Here we go.

08:54Now I'm just going to take a knee, let Anthony and the drums take it off from there, Travis

09:13comes in with like a picked out part and some, I think there's like a little bit of a, maybe

09:19like a pull off or a tapping, I'll come back in here around 3 minutes, 5 seconds, and there'll

09:28be a picked screen, taking a rest until about 3.05 where the picked screen comes in.

09:49A little octave here.

09:56And the last chorus.

10:14And the last chorus.

10:21And.

10:24And.

10:28And.

10:34Yeah.

10:37Hey, I'm Travis Stever from LS Dunes.

10:55I'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 in the sense that

11:06it was already a song that Anthony had and he presented it to us as a demo which had beautiful

11:14instrumentation on it but it was very bare bones and he said, I would like you guys to

11:18rewrite this song musically to the vocals basically, which we did.

11:23There was one part on it that does come in and out that we all agreed we wanted to keep

11:28on the version that we were doing and it was a finger picking.

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

11:43I learned it, so this is how I play it and I've taken the, I've taken it up live.

11:50But how I play it is, I've started.

11:53So it starts up on the 7th fret on the G string, on the D. Well, it's on the, yeah, it's on

12:05the G string, but D on the G string, on the 7th fret and.

12:09So we'll come back to that because that finger picking does dip in and out, but the rest of

12:30the stuff that I performed on it and Frank performed on it was what we built, uh, and

12:36what we wrote to Anthony's vocals into what Tucker and Tim wound up playing as well.

12:41Um, I believe that Frank had the, uh, the chords that the notes of chords that he was striking

12:49on the verse and I just wrote my part to that, which, um, starts, I start also on the 7th fret.

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

13:05So I'll come up, do it a little slower.

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

13:20Going up to the D string, onto the 8th, 8th, 7th, 10th, back to the 7th.

13:31And keeping a steady, that's the part the whole time, keeping a steady.

13:47Very primal picking approach.

13:57So I'll play it along with the song.

13:59It does that the whole verse.

14:01Here we go.

14:02Here we go.

14:03I'm not afraid.

14:48so stop it now that verse part stays the same like i said the whole time

15:18after that what i guess you would call kind of like

15:28you know the chorus pre-chorus i mean the song is very interesting in the way that it's also

15:33uh arranged um i'm not sure what to call exactly the chorus a lot of the time um

15:39which i think is really cool um basically right after that what i'd call the verse

15:44um we go into what could be the chorus or a pre-chorus if you think the breakdown is the

15:51i'm not sure but anyway what i'm playing there is sort of an octave kind of thing which starts on

15:57the fifth fret on the d string and then you and then you also on the eighth fret are on the b string

16:05one of these kind of one of these kind of octave joints which i tend to use a lot and so it's

16:14so that's how i'm striking just stabs

16:44starting on that fifth fret doing the octave thing on there continuing with the same structure going

16:56up to the eighth back down to seventh all the way up to the tenth third so that's basically how i'm

17:08doing that and then it goes back into the finger picking we're going to continue the song playing

17:13it i do basically the same things until i reach a finger tapping part uh basically so here we go

17:38the last one that's not going to be there is

17:41so that's how i got to keep the finger hitting the finger at the next one

17:44so that i'm going to continue the same thing but it's what i'm doing

17:47so that's how i can't wait to hear and they're going to continue the same thing

18:52We're playing a lot of lead stuff, and I added a little bit of guitar, which we'll get

18:55into in a second.

18:57But this is the same part that we were describing before, which starts off on this G minor area

19:05right here, and stays doing that.

19:13And above it, I added a...

19:17So you can hear that coming here.

19:26Now it's just chords.

19:43Now it's just going to be chords.

19:49So that's how I'm playing.

20:02So that's how I've adopted it live to try and capture what the whole thing that's being

20:20played right here when it breaks down.

20:33And then I come in with this.

20:34And then I come in with this.

20:36And then I come in with this.

20:41And then I come in with this.

20:46And then I come in with this.

20:47And then I come in with this.

20:48And then I come in with this.

20:49And then I come in with this.

20:51And then I come in with this.

20:53And then I come in with this.

20:55And then I come in with this.

20:57So, the, basically the finger tapping part is still the same chord that I described

21:27before. It starts there, but instead of doing the finger picking, I am doing this up on

21:35the 15th fret. Still keeping my fingers and then I'm adding my pinky up onto the 8th fret

21:49and on the high 8. The whole time basically utilizing on this, on the 15th fret.

22:01And then I come back in with the same chord progression, all octave chords.

22:27And that's that. Part 3 of 2022. So, the end of the song, I'm just, I'm splitting them

22:45up into these three parts so it's easy for you guys to throw together. So, the end of

22:53the song is the same as the 1st and 2nd verse. I basically just end out the exact same way.

23:30ends on that good old octave

23:37same old thing we were working on just ends on

23:44and that's it that's pretty much all the parts um i hope this works

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