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, and 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, you know, 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, so 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, but it was so beautiful and so heavy

01:05that he came into the band and said that he really wanted this band to kind of take his demo

01:14and do something different with it and kind of put the L.S. Dunes treatment on it, if you will.

01:20So, Tucker, I think, was the first one to jump onto the demo, and with his drum beat,

01:27it was very telling exactly where we needed to go with this song.

01:33And so, I remember hearing his syncopation when he came back with that track,

01:40the drum track on Anthony's demo, that I immediately went to play basically the chorus, if you will, like this.

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

02:07So, basically, you're going to go offsetting those two for the chorus.

02:13So, once we do that, I guess then I'll stop and then come back for what the verses are,

02:19because the verses are a lot of just, when 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.

02:32I'm not afraid to die!

02:38I'm not afraid to die!

03:31I'm back to your chorus.

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

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

03:58You are going to need at least 22 frets.

04:01For this guitar run-through.

04:05Just so you know.

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

04:26You're on your A string.

04:28And you're going to start D, which is in the right here position.

04:31Right?

04:32Kind of doing one of those things.

04:40And then you slide up to your G.

04:49It's on the A string.

04:50And then here, you're going to slide up to your G string.

05:03High E.

05:04And then you'll walk it back down.

05:24And then back to your chorus.

05:26What I'm doing here is basically a G chord, D chord.

05:36And when you get to that D, you're going to kind of keep that chord in place.

05:41But your low E string, you're going to fret.

05:44Here for like a B flat.

05:46A.

05:50And you move.

05:50One of those.

06:05All right, so where are we?

06:36A little bit of a difference.

06:49A little different here.

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

07:01All right, so back to that solo section right here,

07:04which comes after that second verse.

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

07:10It's essentially the same ascending progression.

07:16It's just a slight variation.

07:18So still staying on that D, but you're going to go quicker.

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

07:28Hang out.

07:32You're just kind of dancing around and playing around with that vocal.

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

07:41And then when you go up to that high, you're going to go a little bit quicker.

07:50Walk back down.

07:54Back up to the 20th second fret.

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

08:00So put that in time.

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08:58Let Anthony and the drums take it off from there, Travis comes in with like a picked out

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

09:21I'll come back in here around three minutes, five seconds, and there'll be a picked screen.

09:38Take a rest and sit at about 305 where the picture comes in.

09:50I'm going to lock this here.

10:10And the last verse.

10:47That's it.

11:17I would like you guys to rewrite this song musically

11:20to the vocals basically, which we did.

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

11:26that we all agreed we wanted to keep

11:29on the version that we were doing.

11:32And it was a finger-picking.

11:39Which is, starts in, it's a G minor finger-picking kind of run.

11:43I learned it, so this is how I play it.

11:46Um, and 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.

12:04Well, it's on the, yeah, it's on the G string,

12:06but D on the G string on the seventh fret.

12:08And.

12:16So 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 built,

12:35uh, and what 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 seventh fret.

12:58Uh, I'll play the part, regular speed, and then we'll, um, slow it down, but.

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

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

13:17Going up to the D string, onto the eighth, seventh, tenth, back to the seventh, and keeping a steady,

13:35that's the part the whole time, keeping a steady.

13:38Very primal picking approach.

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

14:01Here we go.

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14:37What's up?

15:07That 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.

15:41Basically, right after that, what I'd call the verse, we go into what could be the chorus or a pre-chorus.

15:50If you think the breakdown is, I'm not sure.

15:52But anyway, what I'm playing there is sort of an octave kind of thing, which starts on the fifth fret on the D string.

16:00And then you also, on the eighth fret, or on the B string, one of these kind of octave joints, which I tend to use a lot.

16:11And so it's...

16:15That's adding the open.

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

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

16:41Just stabs.

16:49Starting on that fifth fret, doing the octave thing on there.

16:54I'm continuing with the same structure going up to the eighth.

16:59Back down to seventh.

17:02All the way up to the tenth.

17:04Third.

17:06So, 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.

17:21Here we go.

17:24Here we go.

17:41Here we go.

17:52Here we go.

18:23Hey, so this is part two of 2022.

18:34I got cut off there, but 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

18:46of part one, where it's pretty dominant in this part, but Frank is playing a lot of lead

18:52stuff, and I added a little bit of guitar, which we'll get into in a second, but this

18:58is the same part that we were describing before, which starts off on this G minor area right

19:05here, and stays doing that.

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

19:17So you can hear that come in 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.

20:27And then I come in with this...

20:35You make it and remember all the possibilities that I can't get into in the moment.

20:38I think I haven't had ideas yet.

20:43I think I can do so much more and思ically.

20:49Let's see.

20:54so

21:17so the the

21:19basically 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

21:36still 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

21:57and then i come back in with the same chord progression

22:24and that's that part three of 2022 so the end of the song i'm just i'm splitting them up into

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

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

23:23ends on that good old octave

23:41same old thing we were working on just ends on and that's it that's pretty much all the parts

23:48if i do work

23:51i hope this works

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