How To Play '2022' With L.S. Dune's Frank Iero And Travis Stever
Learn how to play “2022”, from L.S. Dunes' debut album, Past Lives.
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00:00Hey everybody, I'm Frank Iero. This is a run-through of the song 2022 by the new band L.A. Stoones.
00:10The record comes out 11-11-22 on Fantasy Records. The record is called Past Lives, and this
00:20is one of the singles off of that record called 2022. We're going to do a little bit of a
00:27tutorial and then a playthrough. This song for me is basically like a 2-3-4 minute solo.
00:40It's a lot of riffing happening, so bear with me and I'm going to try to show you everything
00:47that's happening. The first thing to say about this song is that when this song first came
00:55into the band, it was a song that Anthony Green, our singer, wrote. It 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
01:11this band to take his demo and do something different with it and put the L.A. Stoones treatment
01:20on it, if you will. Tucker, I think, was the first one to jump onto the demo. With his drum beat,
01:28it was very telling exactly where we needed to go with this song. I remember hearing his
01:37syncopation when he came back with the drum track on Anthony's demo that I immediately
01:44went to play basically the chorus, if you will, like this. It's going to start on G.
01:52Basically, you're going to go offsetting those two for the chorus. Once we do that, I guess
02:17I'll stop and then come back for what the verses are because the verses are a lot of just...
02:23When I wrote the song or when I recorded my parts of the song, it was very improvisational.
02:29That's why I think you're getting so many different things for every verse.
03:17I'm
03:47back to your chorus. The first thing of that verse is sliding up from the D on your A string.
03:57Everything's in standard, by the way. You are going to need at least 22 frets for this
04:03guitar run-through, just so you know. By the way, I'm playing my Ernie Ball Stingray in
04:10a weird ghost metallic that my friend Tim Dove sent me. This is also a Mesa Rectifier
04:17Badlander that I'm playing through. Everything else is playing through my laptop. Let's see.
04:24You're in standard, you're on your A string, and you're going to start D, which is in the
04:30fifth fret of your position. Kind of doing one of those things, and then you slide up
04:41to your G. It's on the A string, and then here, you're going to slide up to your G string.
05:04High E. And then you'll walk it back down. And 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
05:38going to kind of keep that chord in place, but your low E string, you're going to fret
05:45Here for like a Bb, A, and then you move.
06:04One of those. Alright, let's do it over.
06:14A little bit of a difference.
06:44A little different here.
06:58And then we're going to go into a solo.
07:01Alright, 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. It's essentially the
07:12same ascending progression, it's just a slight variation. So still staying on that D, but
07:20you're going to go quicker.
07:25And then go back to the G here. Hang out.
07:33Just kind of dancing around and playing around with that vocal. Again, with the walk, kind
07:38of 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.
07:51Walk right down.
07:54Back up to the 25th fret.
07:57And then it comes into this, I guess, a solo of a solo, right?
08:26Same time.
08:57No, I'm just going to take a minute.
09:09Let Anthony and the drums take it off from there. Travis 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 tapping.
09:22I'll come back in here around three minutes, five seconds, and there'll be a pick straight.
09:39Taking a rest until about 3.05 where the picture comes in.
09:51Here we go.
10:15And the last chorus.
10:45That's it.
10:53Hey, I'm Travis Stever from LS Dunes. I'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 was already a song that Anthony had,
11:10and he presented it to us as a demo, which had beautiful instrumentation on it, but it was very bare bones.
11:17And he said, I would like you guys to rewrite 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 on the on the version that we were doing.
11:33And it was a finger picking.
11:40Which is starts in it's a it's a G minor finger picking kind of run. I learned it.
11:45So this is how I play it. And I've taken the I've taken it up live.
11:51But how I play it is I've struck. So it starts up on the seventh fret on the G string on the D.
12:05It's on the G string, but D on the G string on the seventh fret and.
12:24So we'll come back to that because that finger picking does dip in and out.
12:29But the rest of the stuff that I performed on it and Frank performed on it was what we built and what we wrote to Anthony's vocals into what Tucker and Tim wound up playing as well.
12:43I believe that Frank had the the chords that the notes of chords that he was striking on the verse.
12:51And I just wrote my part to that, which starts. I start also on the seventh fret.
13:00I'll play the part regular speed and then we'll slow it down, but.
13:12So I'll come up, do it a little slower.
13:15I'm starting on the seventh fret, going up a half step.
13:20Going up to the D string onto the eighth.
13:25Seventh. Tenth.
13:30Back to the seventh.
13:34And keeping a steady, that's the part the whole time, keeping a steady.
13:47Very primal picking approach.
13:57So I'll play it along with the song. It does that the whole verse.
14:01Here we go.
15:01So stop it now.
15:11That verse part stays the same, like I said, the whole time.
15:23After 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 or a pre-chorus.
15:50If you think the breakdown is, I'm not sure.
15:53But 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're also on the eighth fret or on the B string.
16:05One of these kind of octave joints, which I tend to use a lot.
16:12And so it's...
16:20That's adding the open.
16:27With a little bit of like...
16:40So that's how I'm striking.
16:42Just stabs.
16:49Starting on that fifth fret, doing the octave thing on there.
16:55Continuing with the same structure going up to the eighth.
16:59Back down to seventh.
17:02All the way up to the tenth.
17:05Third.
17:07So, 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.
17:25Here we go.
17:55Here we go.
18:22Finger picking.
18:31Hey, so this is part two of 2022.
18:34I got cut off there, but 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 part one.
18:47Where 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 get into in a second.
18:57But this is the same part that we were describing before, which starts off on this G minor area right here.
19:11And stays doing that.
19:13And above it, I added a...
19:24So, you can hear that coming here.
19:42Now it's just chords.
19:48Now it's just going to be chords.
20:02So, that's how I'm playing.
20:15So, that's how I've adopted it live to try and capture what the whole thing that's being played right here when it breaks down.
20:33Then I come in with this.
21:01So, the...
21:23Basically, 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.
21:35Up on the 15th fret.
21:45Still 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...
22:00On the 15th fret.
22:22And then I come back in with the same chord progression.
22:26Well, octave chord progression.
22:39And that's that. Part 3 of 2022.
22:43So, the end of the song. I'm splitting them up into these three parts so it's easy for you guys to throw together.
22:51So, the end of the song is the same as the first and second verse.
23:21Ends 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.