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.

Transcript

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.

04:52High 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

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 where are we?

06:09All right.

06:39A 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, which 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 go back to the G here.

07:22And then go back to the G here.

07:28Hang out.

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

07:35So 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.

07:50Walk 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?

08:00So put that in time.

08:29Find it.

08:30Keep it.

08:35Keep it.

08:56Keep it going.

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 3 minutes, 5 seconds and there'll be a picked screen.

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

09:50And the last chorus.

10:14The last chorus.

10:15The last chorus.

10:16The last chorus.

10:21And that's it.

10:46Hey, 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 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 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.

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

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

11:51how I play it is, I've started.

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, but D on the G string on the seventh fret and

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

12:30stuff 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

13:05So 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.

13:47Very primal picking approach.

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

13:59It does that the whole verse.

14:01Here we go.

14:29Here we go.

14:41Here we go.

14:45Here we go.

14:49Here we go.

14:58So, 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.

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

15:49or a pre-chorus.

15:50If 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.

16:00And then you also on the eighth fret are on the B string, one of these kind of, one of

16:08these kind of octave joints, which I tend to use a lot.

16:12And so it's.

16:20That's adding the opener.

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.

16:59Back down to seventh.

17:00All 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.

17:19So, here we go.

17:49I do.

17:54And then that's how I feel like.

17:55I'm going to continue the centre of my head.

18:18hey so this is uh part two of 2022 i got cut off there but i think everything else was really

18:36usable um we're we're right here in the finger picking finger picking part that i was talking

18:45about at the beginning of part one where it's it's pretty dominant in this part but frank is playing

18:52a lot of lead stuff and i added a little bit of guitar which we'll get into in a second um but

18:57this is the same part that we were describing before which starts off on this g minor area right

19:05here and 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

20:14so that's how i've adopted it live

20:16to try and capture what the whole thing that's being played right here when it breaks down

20:21then i come in with this

20:34and i'll see you guys

20:38and i'll see you next time

20:39so

20:40i'll see you next time

21:11So, the, the, basically the finger tapping part is still the same chord that I described

21:27before.

21:29Starts there, but instead of doing the finger picking, I am doing this up on the 15th fret.

21:41Still keeping my fingers, and then I'm adding my pinky up onto the 8th fret on the high

21:49E.

21:52The whole time bar, 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.

22:40Part 3 of 2022.

22:42So, the end of the song, I'm just, I'm splitting them up into these three parts so it's easy

22:47for 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.

23:17Ends on that good old octave.

23:37Same old thing we were working on.

23:43It just ends on.

23:46And that's it.

23:47That's pretty much all the parts.

23:49Um, I hope this works.

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