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.
04:52And 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 whatever.
06:09All right, so let's go.
06:39A little bit of a difference.
06:49A little different here.
06:50And 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.
07:09It's essentially the same ascending progression.
07:15It's just a slight variation.
07:17So still staying on that D, but you're going to go quicker.
07:21And then we're going to go back to the G here.
07:28Hang out.
07:29You're just kind of dancing around and playing around with that vocal.
07:35Again, 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.
07:48Walk 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?
08:00And then it comes into this, I guess, a solo of a solo, right?
08:24So put that in time.
08:26I guess.
08:32Let's do this.
08:36Let's do it.
08:43Let's do it.
08:53Let's do it.
08:55Let 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.
09:45A little octave here.
09:52And the last chorus.
10:14The last chorus.
10:15The last chorus.
10:21The last chorus.
10:28The last chorus.
10:31The next chorus.
10:34Weiter the chords.
10:36Another chorus.
10:37Hey, 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
11:06it was 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.
11:24There 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.
11:36Which is starts in it's a 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 how I play
11:51it starts up on the seventh fret on the G string on the D well it's on the yeah it's on the G string
12:06but 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 and what we wrote to
12:37Anthony'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
12:58I'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 I'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
13:31and keeping a steady that's the part the whole time keeping a steady
13:38very primal picking approach
13:49so I'll play it along with the song it does that the whole verse
14:00here we go
14:02I'm not afraid
14:05so
15:07Stop it now.
15:10That 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 fifth fret on the D string.
16:00And then you also on the eighth fret are on the B string.
16:04One of these kind of octave joints, which I tend to use a lot.
16:11And so it's adding the open.
16:21With a little bit of like...
16:28So that's how I'm striking.
16:41Just stabs.
16:43Starting on that fifth fret, doing the octave thing on there.
16:54Continuing with the same structure going up to the eighth.
16:58Back down to seventh.
17:01All 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.
17:41And then I am going to continue the song.
17:42And then I can't break it down.
17:46I know it's all about everything else.
17:51But then I can't break it down.
17:52You know this way's a joke.
17:57I'll be leaving now, but I never wait to see me.
18:04Back to the bingo bin.
18:30Hey, so this is part two of 2022.
18:33I got cut off there, but I think everything else was really usable.
18:37We'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...
19:20So you can hear that coming here.
19:27Now it's just chords.
19:34Now it's just going to be chords.
19:39Now it's just chords.
19:46Now it's just going to be chords.
19:50So that's how I'm playing.
20:03So 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 then I come in with this
20:50So
21:17So, the, basically 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.
21:37Still keeping my fingers, and then I'm adding my pinky up onto the 8th fret on the high E.
21:52The whole time, basically utilizing on this, on the 15th fret.
22:07And then I come back in with the same chord progression, all octave chords.
22:37And that's that. Part 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 for you guys to throw together.
22:50So, the end of the song is the same as the first and second verse.
22:56I basically just end out the exact same way.
22:59I'm going to be the same as the first and second verse.
23:29Ends on that good old octave.
23:41Same old thing we were working on, just ends on.
23:46And that's it. That's pretty much all the parts.
23:50I hope this works.