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.

04:52High 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 a little different here

06:50and then we're going to go into a solo all right so back to that solo section right here

07:04which comes after that that second verse so the second verse basically is played uh just a little

07:09bit quicker it's it's it's essentially the same uh ascending uh progression it's just a slight

07:17variation so still staying on that d but you're going going to go quicker

07:21go back to the g here hang out

07:29you're just kind of dancing around and playing around with that vocal

07:35again with the uh 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

07:51back up to the 20th second fret and then it comes into this uh i guess a solo of a solo right

08:00so put that in time

08:26it goes

08:36so

08:38I'm just going to take a knee.

09:09Let Anthony and the drums take it off from there.

09:12Travis comes in with like a picked out part.

09:15And 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.

09:28And there'll be a quick screen.

09:29Taking a rest instead of about 305 where the picture comes in.

09:42I'm going to lock this year.

09:51I'm going to lock this year.

09:59And the last chorus.

10:15I'm going to lock this year.

10:23I'm going to lock this year.

10:25I'm going to lock this year.

10:28Hey, 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 was already

11:08a song that Anthony had and he presented it to us as a demo, which had beautiful instrumentation

11:15on 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 version that we were doing.

11:33And it was a finger picking.

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

11:43I learned it.

11:44So this is how I play it and I've taken the, I've taken it up live, but how I play it is

11:52I've struck.

11:53So 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.

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

12:29rest of the stuff that I performed on it and Frank performed on it was what we built and

12:36what we wrote to Anthony's vocals and to what Tucker and Tim wound up playing as well.

12:42I believe that Frank had the, the chords, the, the notes of chords that he was striking

12:49on the verse.

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

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

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

13:15I'm starting on the seventh fret, going up a half step, going up to the D string, onto

13:22the eighth, seventh, tenth, back to the seventh and keeping a steady, that's the part the whole

13:37time, keeping a steady, very primal picking approach.

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

13:59It does that, the whole verse.

14:01Here we go.

14:02Here we go.

15:02So, 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, one 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.

16:49Starting 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, 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.

17:24So, here we go.

17:39So, here we go.

18:13Hey, so this is part two of 2022.

18:34I got cut off there, but I think everything else was really usable.

18:36Um, we're, we're right here in the finger picking, finger picking part that I was talking about

18:45at the beginning of part one, where it's, it's pretty dominant in this part, but Frank

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

18:55in a second.

18:56Um, but this is the same part that we were describing before, which starts off on this

19:02G minor area right here and stays doing that.

19:13And above it, I added a, so you can hear that coming.

19:25Now 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.

20:32And then I come in with this.

20:34And then I come in with this.

21:04So the, the, basically the finger tapping part is still the same chord that I described

21:27before.

21:28It starts there, but instead of doing the finger picking, I am doing this up on the 15th fret.

21:42Still keeping my fingers.

21:43Still keeping my fingers.

21:44Still keeping my fingers.

21:45And then I'm adding my pinky up onto the eighth fret on the high E.

21:49The whole time bar, basically utilizing on this, on the 15th fret.

21:56And then I come back in with the same chord progression.

21:57All octave.

21:58And then I come back in with the same chord progression.

21:59All octave chords.

22:00And then I come back in with the same chord progression.

22:01All octave chords.

22:02And then I come back in with the same chord progression.

22:08All octave chords.

22:09And then I come back in with the same chord progression.

22:15And then I come back in with the same chord progression.

22:22And then I come back in with the same chord progression.

22:26And that's that part three of 2022.

22:43So 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.

23:26And that's it.

23:27That's pretty much all the parts.

23:28I hope this works.

23:33And that's it.

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23:35That's pretty much all the parts.

23:36I hope this works.

23:38And that's it.

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23:44That's pretty much all the parts.

23:48I hope this works.

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23:52And that's it.

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