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.
04:52High 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.