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!
02:40I'm not afraid to die!
02:42I'm not afraid to die!
02:44I'm not afraid to die!
02:53But I'm afraid to die!
02:55I'm afraid to die!
02:55I'm afraid to die!
02:57I'm afraid to die!
02:58Yeah!
02:58That's why I Österreich came back.
03:01I wasn't afraid to die!
03:01I landed考証ited!
03:03Love'sFit!
03:04That's why I was like,
03:06And I was afraid to die.
03:37I'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 here.
03:56Everything's in standard, by the way.
03:58You are going to need at least 22 frets for this guitar run-through, just so you know.
04:05By 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, you're on your A string, and you're going to start D, which is in the right here position.
04:31So, you're 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.
04:52High E.
05:12And 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 going to kind of keep that chord in place.
05:40But your low E string, you're going to fret here for like a B flat, A.
05:50And then you move.
05:50One of those.
06:05All right, so we're over.
06:06All right.
06:21A little bit of a difference.
06:41A little different here.
06:51And then we're going to go into a solo.
07:00All 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.
07:11It's essentially the same ascending progression, it's just a slight variation.
07:18So still staying on that D, but you're going to go quicker.
07:21And then go back to the G here, hang out, and just kind of dancing around and playing
07:34around 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.
07:48Walk right down, back up to the 25th second fret.
07:57And then it comes into this, I guess, a solo of a solo, right?
08:04So put that in time.
08:23Like this.
08:24Like this.
08:26Like this.
08:28Like this?
08:29And then can you do it again?
08:30Okay.
08:31The way.
09:06I'm just going to let Anthony and the drums take it off from there.
09:12Travis comes in with like a picked out part and some, I think there's like a little bit
09:16of 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.
09:36Taking a rest instead of about 305 where the picture comes in.
09:41Here comes in.
09:49I'm going to lock this here.
09:51And the last chorus.
10:15I'm going to lock this here.
10:45Hey, 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.
11:01This 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.
11:17And 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.
11:32And it was a finger picking.
11:39Which is, starts in, it's a, it's a G minor finger picking kind of run.
11:43And I learned it.
11:44So 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.
11:53So it starts up on the seventh fret on the G string, on the D. Well, it's on the, yeah,
12:05it's on the G string, but D on the G string on the seventh fret.
12:08And.
12:23So 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
12:37what 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
12:58fret, 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.
13:19Going up to the D string onto the eighth, seventh, tenth, back to the seventh, and keeping
13:35a steady, that's the part the whole time, keeping a steady, very primal picking approach.
13:49So I'll play it along with the song, it does that the whole verse.
14:01Here we go.
14:02Here we go.
14:03I'm not afraid of you.
14:04I'm not afraid of you.
14:06Oh, oh, oh.
14:08Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
15:09So, that verse part stays the same, like I said, the whole time.
15:15After 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 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 5th fret on the D string.
16:00And then you also, on the 8th fret, are on the B string, one of these kind of octave joints, which I tend to use a lot.
16:11And so, it's...
16:18That's adding the open.
16:21With a little bit of, like...
16:31So, that's how I'm striking.
16:41Just stabs.
16:43Starting on that 5th fret, doing the octave thing on there, continuing with the same structure going up to the 8th, back down to 7th, all the way up to the 10th, 3rd.
17:06So, that's basically how I'm doing that, and 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.
17:41We're going to continue the song, playing it.
18:12Hey, so this is part two of 2022.
18:34I got cut off there, but I think everything else was really usable.
18:37We're right here in the fingerprint.
18:42This is the finger-picking part that I was talking about at the beginning of part one,
18:47where it's pretty dominant in this part, but 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.
18:56But this is the same part that we were describing before, which starts off on this G minor area right here.
19:06It 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 played right here when it breaks down.
20:21And then I come in with this.
20:34So that's how I've adopted it live to try and capture what the whole thing that's being played right here when it breaks down.
20:41So that's how I've adopted it live to try and capture what the whole thing that's being played right here when it breaks down.
20:50And then I come in with this.
20:55So that's how I've adopted it live to try and capture what the whole thing that's being played right here when it breaks down.
21:03So, the, 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 eight. The whole time bar, basically utilizing on this, on the 15th fret.
22:19And then I come back in with the same chord progression, all octave chords.
22:27And that's that part three 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 the
22:53song is the same as the first and second verse. I basically just end out the exact same way.
23:23Ends 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.