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.
Transcript
00:00 Hey everybody, I'm Frank Iero. This is a run-through of the song 2022 by the new band Ella Estunes.
00:09 The record comes out 11/11/22 on Fantasy Records. The record is called "Past Lives" and this is
00:19 one of the the singles off of that record called 2022. We're gonna do a little bit of a, I guess,
00:26 a tutorial and then a playthrough. This song for me is basically like a, you know, two to
00:35 how many minutes is this? A three minute solo? Basically a four minute solo. It's a lot of
00:41 riffing happening. So bear with me and I'm going to try to show you everything that's happening.
00:47 The first, I guess, thing to say about this song is that when this song first came into the band
00:55 it was a song that Anthony Green, our singer, wrote. It was a very bare-bones demo. It was
01:04 so beautiful and so heavy that he came into the band and said that he really wanted this band to
01:12 kind of take his demo and do something different with it and kind of put the Ella Estunes treatment
01:19 on it, if you will. So Tucker, I think, was the first one to jump onto the demo and with his
01:26 drum beat it was very telling exactly where we needed to go with this song. And so I remember
01:34 hearing his, you know, his syncopation when he came back with that track, the drum track, on
01:41 Anthony's demo that I immediately went to play basically the chorus, if you will, like this.
01:49 So it's going to start on G.
02:07 So that's basically you're going to go offsetting those two for the chorus. So once we do that,
02:15 I guess then I'll stop and then come back for what the verses are because the verses are a lot of
02:20 just... When I wrote the song or when I recorded my parts of the song it was very improvisational.
02:27 So that's why I think you're getting so many different things for every verse.
02:33 Um...
02:36 I'm not afraid to try...
02:39 So...
02:53 So...
03:04 So...
03:18 So...
03:46 And back to your chorus. So the first thing of that verse is kind of sliding up from the D
03:53 on your A string. Everything's in standard, by the way. You are going to need at least 22 frets
04:01 for this guitar run-through, just so you know. By the way, I'm playing my Ernie Ball Stingray
04:09 in a weird ghost metallic that my friend Tim Dove sent me. And this is also a Mesa
04:15 Rectifier Badlander that I'm playing through. Everything else is playing through my laptop.
04:21 So let's see. So you're in standard, you're on your A string, and you're going to start D,
04:28 which is in the right here position.
04:38 Kind of doing one of those things. And then you slide up to your G.
04:41 It's on the A string. And then here you're going to slide up to your G string.
05:03 High E. And then you'll walk it back down.
05:13 And then back to your chorus.
05:31 What I'm doing here is basically G chord, D chord. And when you get to that D,
05:37 you're going to kind of keep that chord in place. But your low E string, you're going to fret
05:43 here for like a B flat, A. And then you move.
05:51 One of those. All right, so whatever.
06:06 So
06:20 so
06:29 a little bit of a difference.
06:49 A little different here.
06:50 And then we're going to go into a solo.
06:59 All right, so back to that solo section right here, which comes after that second verse. So
07:06 the second verse basically is played just a little bit quicker. It's essentially the same
07:13 ascending progression. It's just a slight variation. So still staying on that D,
07:19 but you're going to go quicker. And then go back to the G here. Hang out.
07:28 And you're just kind of dancing around and playing around with that vocal.
07:34 Again, with the walk, the kind of like call and response on the G string to D string.
07:41 And then when you go up to that high, you're going to go a little bit quicker.
07:48 Walk right down.
07:51 Back up to the 20th fret. And then it comes into this, I guess, a solo of a solo, right?
08:00 So for that end time.
08:14 So for that end time.
08:25 Time.
08:28 Can I do it?
08:31 So.
08:37 So.
08:48 So.
09:02 Now I'm just going to take a knee. Let Anthony and the drums take it off from there.
09:11 Travis comes in with like a picked out part. And some, I think there's like a little bit of a
09:17 pump, maybe like a pull off or a tapping. I'll come back in here around three minutes,
09:26 five seconds, and there'll be a pick straight.
09:38 Taking a rest until about three oh five where the picture comes in.
09:50 A lot.
10:14 Last course.
10:22 So.
10:34 So.
10:47 Hey, I'm Travis Stever from LSDunes. I'm going to do a rundown of the song 2022
10:58 from the upcoming album, Past Lives. This song in particular is quite different than the rest of
11:05 them in the sense that it was already a song that Anthony had and he presented it to us as a demo,
11:12 which had beautiful instrumentation on it, but it was very bare bones. And he said,
11:17 I would like you guys to rewrite this song musically to the vocals, basically, which we did.
11:23 There was one part on it that does come in and out that we all agreed we wanted to keep
11:29 on the on the version that we were doing. And it was a finger picking.
11:33 Which is starts in it's a it's a G minor finger picking kind of run. I learned it.
11:44 So this is how I play it. And I've taken the I've taken it up live. But how I play it is I've
11:52 started. So it starts up on the seventh fret on the G string on the D.
12:02 Well, it's on the it's on the G string, but D on the G string on the seventh fret and.
12:21 So we'll come back to that because that finger picking does dip in and out, but the rest of the
12:29 stuff that I performed on it and Frank performed on it was what we built and what we wrote to
12:37 Anthony's vocals into what Tucker and Tim wound up playing as well. I believe that Frank had the
12:45 chords that the notes of chords that he was striking on the verse, and I just wrote my part
12:52 to that, which starts I start also on the seventh fret. I'll play the part regular speed and then
13:02 we'll slow it down, but. So I'll come up, do it a little slower, starting on the seventh fret,
13:16 going up a half step. Going up to the D string onto the eighth, seventh, tenth.
13:30 Back to the seventh.
13:31 And keeping a steady. That's the part the whole time, keeping a steady.
13:38 Very primal picking approach.
13:57 So I'll play it along with the song. It does that the whole verse. Here we go.
14:03 I'm not afraid
14:06 to
14:08 go.
14:30 Where
14:32 am I
14:34 going
14:36 now
14:38 where
14:40 am I
14:42 going
14:44 now
14:46 where
14:48 am I
14:50 going
14:52 now
14:54 where
14:56 am I
14:58 going
15:00 now
15:02 where
15:04 am I
15:06 going
15:08 now
15:10 that verse part stays the same, like I said, the whole time.
15:22 After that, what I guess you would call kind of like, you know, the chorus, pre-chorus. I mean,
15:30 the song is very interesting in the way that it's also arranged. I'm not sure what to call
15:36 exactly the chorus a lot of the time, which I think is really cool. Basically, right after that,
15:43 what I'd call the verse, we go into what could be the chorus or a pre-chorus. If you think the
15:50 breakdown is the, I'm not sure, but anyway, what I'm playing there is sort of an octave kind of
15:55 thing, which starts on the fifth fret on the D string, and then you also on the eighth fret
16:03 are on the B string. One of these kind of octave joints, which I tend to use a lot. And so it's
16:20 that's adding the open
16:21 with a little bit of like
16:27 so that's how I'm striking just stabs
16:48 starting on that fifth fret doing the octave thing on there continuing with the same structure going
16:56 up to the eighth back down to seven all the way up to the tenth third so that's basically how I'm
17:08 doing that and then it goes back into the finger picking we're going to continue the song playing
17:13 it I do basically the same things until I reach a finger tapping part basically so here we go
17:21 hmm
17:33 so
17:40 so
18:03 so
18:30 hey so this is uh part two of 2022 I got cut off there but I think everything else was really
18:36 usable um we're we're right here in the finger picking finger picking part that I was talking
18:44 about at the beginning of part one where it's it's pretty dominant in this part but Frank is playing
18:51 a lot of lead stuff and I added a little bit of guitar which we'll get into in a second um but
18:57 this is the same part that we were describing before which starts off on this G minor area right
19:05 here and stays doing that and above it I added a so you can hear that coming here
19:25 so
19:39 now it's just chords
19:43 now it's just going to be chords
19:54 now
20:01 so that's how I've adopted it live to try and capture
20:18 what the whole thing that's being played right here when it breaks down
20:29 then I come in with this
20:44 here
20:52 so the the
21:19 the basically the finger tapping part is still the same chord that I described before
21:27 starts there but instead of doing the finger picking I am doing this up on the 15th fret
21:44 still keeping my fingers and then I'm adding my pinky up onto the 8th fret on the high E
21:49 the whole time bar basically utilizing on this
21:56 on the 15th fret
22:06 so
22:13 and then I come back in with the same chord progression all octave
22:27 so
22:35 and that's that part three of 2022 so the end of the song I'm just I'm splitting them up into
22:45 these three parts so it's easy for um you guys to throw together um so the end of the song is the
22:53 same as the first and second verse I basically just end out the exact same way
23:10 so
23:33 ends on that good old octave same old thing we were working on just ends on
23:44 and that's it that's pretty much all the parts um I hope this works