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.

08:26Find it.

08:35I guess.

08:40Come on.

08:45Have fun.

08:49Cherry dance Jaen.

08:50Let Anthony and the drums take it off from there, Travis comes in with like a picked

09:14out part and some, I think there's like a little bit of a maybe like a pull off or a tapping.

09:22I'll come back in here around three minutes, five seconds and there'll be a quick screen.

09:38Take a rest and sit at about 3.05 where the picture comes in.

09:53And the last chorus.

10:14And the last chorus.

10:21And that's it.

10:28And that's it.

10:36And that's it.

10:42Hey, I'm Travis Stever from LS Dunes.

10:55I'm gonna do a rundown of the song 2022 from the upcoming album Past Lives.

11:01This song in particular is quite different than the rest of them in the sense that it

11:07was 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.

11:16And he said, I would like you guys to rewrite this song musically to the vocals basically,

11:22which 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, on the version that we were doing and it was a finger picking, which is starts in,

11:40it's a, it's a G minor finger picking kind of run.

11:43I learned it.

11:44So this is how I play it.

11:46And I've taken the, I've taken it up live.

11:49Um, but how I play it is I've struck.

11:59So it starts up on the seventh fret on the G string on the D while it's on the, yeah,

12:04it's on the G string, but D on the G string on the seventh fret.

12:08And so we'll come back to that because that finger picking does dip in and out.

12:28But the rest of the stuff that I performed on it and Frank performed on it was what we

12:34built, uh, and what we wrote to Anthony's vocals into what Tucker and Tim wound up playing

12:39as well.

12:40Um, I believe that Frank had the, uh, the chords that the notes of chords that he was striking

12:49on the verse.

12:50And I just wrote my part to that, which, um, starts, I start also on the seventh fret.

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

13:03But.

13:04So I'll come up, do it a little slower.

13:05I'm starting on the seventh fret going up a half step.

13:20Going up to the D string onto the eighth, seventh, tenth, back to the seventh.

13:32And keeping a steady.

13:35That's the part the whole time.

13:37Keeping a steady.

13:39Very primal picking approach.

13:49So I'll play it along with the song.

13:58It does that the whole verse.

14:00Here we go.

14:02It does.

14:03It does.

14:04It does.

14:05It does.

14:06It does.

14:07It does.

14:08It does.

14:09It does.

14:10It.

14:11It does.

14:14It does.

14:16It does.

15:00So, stop it now.

15:10That verse part stays the same, like I said, the whole time.

15:22After that, what I guess you would call kind of like, you 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, which I think is really cool.

15:40So, basically, right after that, what I'd call the verse, we go into what could be the chorus

15:49or a pre-chorus, if you think the breakdown is the, I'm not sure.

15:52But 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 also on the eighth fret are 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.

16:27So, that's how I'm striking.

16:41Just stabs.

16:43Starting on that fifth fret, doing the octave thing on there, continuing with the same structure

16:56going up to the eighth, back down to seventh, all the way up to the tenth, third.

17:05So, 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, basically.

17:20So, here we go.

17:25All right.

17:35We're going to continue the song, playing it.

18:05We're going to continue the song, playing it.

18:35But I think everything else was really usable.

18:38We're right here in the finger picking part that I was talking about at the beginning of

18:46part one, where it's pretty dominant in this part.

18:51But Frank is playing a lot of lead stuff, and I added a little bit of guitar, which we'll

18:55get into in a second.

18:56But this is the same part that we were describing before, which starts off on this G minor area

19:05right here.

19:06And stays doing that, and above it, I added a...

19:15So, 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.

20:21And then I come in with this...

20:22And then I come in with this...

20:23And then I come in with this...

20:27Then I come in with this...

20:39And then, then I come in with this...

20:52so

21:17so the the

21:22basically the finger tapping part is still the same chord that i described before

21:29starts there but instead of doing the finger picking i am doing this up on the 15th fret

21:44still keeping my fingers and then i'm adding my pinky up onto the eighth fret on the high e

21:52the whole time bar basically utilizing on this

21:57on the 15th fret

22:10and then i come back

22:23in with the same chord progression

22:33and that's that part three of 2022 so the end of the song i'm just i'm splitting them up into these

22:45three parts so it's easy for um you guys to throw together um so the end of the song is the same

22:53as the first and second verse i basically just end out the exact same way

23:08so

23:21ends on that good old octave, same old thing we were working on, just ends on, and that's

23:46it, that's pretty much all the parts, I hope this works.

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