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.
08:26Find it.
08:35I guess.
08:40Come on.
08:45Have fun.
08:49Cherry dance Jaen.
08:50Let Anthony and the drums take it off from there, Travis comes in with like a picked
09:14out part and 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 and there'll be a quick screen.
09:38Take a rest and sit at about 3.05 where the picture comes in.
09:53And the last chorus.
10:14And the last chorus.
10:21And that's it.
10:28And that's it.
10:36And that's it.
10:42Hey, I'm Travis Stever from LS Dunes.
10:55I'm gonna 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.
11:16And 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, on the version that we were doing and it was a finger picking, which is starts in,
11:40it's a, it's a G minor finger picking kind of run.
11:43I learned it.
11:44So this is how I play it.
11:46And I've taken the, I've taken it up live.
11:49Um, but how I play it is I've struck.
11:59So it starts up on the seventh fret on the G string on the D while it's on the, yeah,
12:04it'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.
12:28But the rest of the stuff that I performed on it and Frank performed on it was what we
12:34built, uh, and what we wrote to Anthony's vocals into what Tucker and Tim wound up playing
12:39as well.
12:40Um, I believe that Frank had the, uh, the chords that the notes of chords that he was striking
12:49on the verse.
12:50And I just wrote my part to that, which, um, starts, I start also on the seventh fret.
12:59I'll play the part regular speed and then we'll, um, slow it down.
13:03But.
13:04So I'll come up, do it a little slower.
13:05I'm starting on the seventh fret going up a half step.
13:20Going up to the D string onto the eighth, seventh, tenth, back to the seventh.
13:32And keeping a steady.
13:35That's the part the whole time.
13:37Keeping a steady.
13:39Very primal picking approach.
13:49So I'll play it along with the song.
13:58It does that the whole verse.
14:00Here we go.
14:02It does.
14:03It does.
14:04It does.
14:05It does.
14:06It does.
14:07It does.
14:08It does.
14:09It does.
14:10It.
14:11It does.
14:14It does.
14:16It does.
15:00So, 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 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.
16:43Starting on that fifth fret, doing the octave thing on there, continuing with the same structure
16:56going up to the eighth, back down to seventh, all the way up to the tenth, third.
17:05So, 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.
17:25All right.
17:35We're going to continue the song, playing it.
18:05We're going to continue the song, playing it.
18:35But I think everything else was really usable.
18:38We're right here in the finger picking part that I was talking about at the beginning of
18:46part one, where it's pretty dominant in this part.
18:51But Frank is playing a lot of lead stuff, and I added a little bit of guitar, which we'll
18:55get into in a second.
18:56But this is the same part that we were describing before, which starts off on this G minor area
19:05right here.
19:06And 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
20:20played right here when it breaks down.
20:21And then I come in with this...
20:22And then I come in with this...
20:23And then I come in with this...
20:27Then I come in with this...
20:39And then, then I come in with this...
20:52so
21:17so the the
21:22basically 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
21:44still keeping my fingers and then i'm adding my pinky up onto the eighth fret on the high e
21:52the whole time bar basically utilizing on this
21:57on the 15th fret
22:10and then i come back
22:23in with the same chord progression
22:33and that's that part three of 2022 so the end of the song i'm just i'm splitting them up into these
22:45three parts so it's easy for um you guys to throw together um so the end of the song is the same
22:53as the first and second verse i basically just end out the exact same way
23:08so
23:21ends 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.