https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/nofiplts
## This is the first time I'm participating on the Nexokê Contest. Hopefully many more to come!

Hello Nexo community! This is my entry to the Week 8 of Nexokê Contest. Since this is the very first time I'm participating on this contest, I'm not sure I got everything right so any and all feedback is very much appreciated.

For this one, I chose the song Nutshell, by the grunge band Alice in Chains. I'm huge fan of the band and this is one of my favourite songs by them ever since I watched their great MTV Unplugged! Nutshell is the song that opens that concert and I really loved the way they did it live. You can see it watch if you want to see what I'm talking about.

Anyway, I really love this song and it's one of the few songs by Alice in Chains that I think I can do an average job as a singer. And I do mean average! I'm not a great singer, plus Layne Staley vocals are very HARD to mimic but I gave my best shot!

To record this cover, I used my custom shop Tele style guitar, which is one of my favorite guitars that I own! I thought about using an acousting to record this but my acoustic is broken at the moment and I haven't had the time to get it fixed.

I plugged the guitar directly into my Orange Tiny Terror amp which I also love! It's not exactly the best amp for clean sounds but I think I was able to get a decent tune out of it.

I recorded it using my phone, which is not great but for now is the best I can do! I'm saving up to get a good recording microphone and an audio interface to increase the quality of my recordings but that will have to wait a little.

So this is it! My very first entry to Nexokê and I hope to do it every week from now on if I have the time, which is not always easy!

I hope you have enjoyed it and please feel free to provide any feedback on the song itself or on the format of the post!

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/cigcikea
Hello hello, it's been a while but I'm back with Tele Tuesday!

This is a bit of a special one because it's the end of a cycle but more on that later.

First of all, let me start by apoligizing to Neil Young because I really didn't do him justice with this one! I was practicing some new scales and decided to apply the theory to this song but the solos didn't come out as good as I hope.

So, the song is Rockin' in the Free World by Neil Young and its a great one! Funny story about this song: the first time I heard it was actually the G3 version played by Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen. That was back in the day when I didn't really care much about the classic and I was all about shredding! It's not that shredding is not cool and I still enjoy watching/listening to those guys from time to time, it's just that my taste in music changed a bit since then.

But anyway, the song is pretty simple but still pretty rad! The main riff is super recognizable and it packs a lot of power, same as the chorus. The lyrics are pretty cool too, if you ignore some bits that don't make a whole lot of sense (but are important for rhymes, metrics and what not).

And the solo... well, as I mentioned already, I completely butchered it hehehe

In the beginning of this post I mentioned that this is the end of a cycle so now it's time to say why.

If you red my posts regularly, you may know that I bought a new amp! Yes! I got a new Orange Tiny Terror now so I will be retiring my old Meteoro Amp. It served me well but the time has come for me to move on!

However, I recorded this video before the new amp was delivered meaning that (unless something unferseen happens) this is the last video recorded with that amp that I will be uploading. Hopefully the next ones will be recorded with the new Orange!

The guitar is still the same, my loyal custom Tele!

That's it for now, I hope you enjoy the video and see you nex time!

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/mwqfdpmh
My main amp is a Fender DeVille 212 which I love but it's way too loud for my apartment so I use it mainly for giging. I also have a small Meteoro amp which I was using to play at home, study and record some guitar videos but as thankful as I am to that amp because it was the one I used for many years while learning guitar, it's really not great.

I wanted a little more quality at bedroom volume so I started looking for a new amp. I also wanted to get a different sound than what I already have with the Fender, which, again, I love, but it's always nice to broaden our horizons. That being said, I started looking for a british style amp and the Orange Tiny Terror immediatly draw my attention and I decided to pull the trigger on it.

It's been only a few days since I got it but I can already tell it was a very solid choice! This tiny amp has a full-valve (or tube) circuit and 15W (although it can be atenuated down to 7W) of pure british power!

As I mentioned on the video, I won't go into technical details or anything like that in this post and will do a different one just for that prupose, which I will link to this when I'm done. The main idea here is jsut demo some of the tones you can get out of this little amp.

Speaking of which, don't let it's compact size and name fool you. This amp is a beast! I have yet to try it with a live band but I was told by multiple people that it's totally usable in a band rehearsal and also small gigs, even if your drummer is loud.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/mkhyiomc
### Life has been crazy!

It's been a while since the last guitar cover I uploaded here on Hive. What can I say? Life has been really, really busy.

This week I had a little time to breathe, so here I am! Hopefully, I'll get back to my routine, but my life can sometimes be very unpredictable.

But enough about that. Let's get down to business!

Let me start by saying that I didn't really know that band until very recently. I mean, I knew they existed and all that, but I never really bothered to check them out. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that this was primarily due to a "rivalry" that dates back to my teenage years. I was a huge Nirvana fan, and if you know what I'm talking about, you probably also know that Courtney Love, the lead singer of Hole is not exactly loved (pun intended) by most die-hard Nirvana fans out there, but that's a story for another post.

Let's say I've outgrown that whole story, and I was pleasantly surprised when my music streaming platform suggested the song "Celebrity Skin" by Hole. It immediately got to me!

The song is as simple as it can be, which is why I like it so much. The main riff is really catchy, and I like the way the band plays with pauses, question-and-answer dynamics, and, let's be honest, Courtney's voice fits the song very nicely.

I had never played this song before and learned it in a few minutes right before recording, and that's not to praise myself, but the song is actually straightforward, as I said. There are a few licks that I didn't bother to record, but other than that, it's pretty much the main riff, chorus and a sort of "bridge".

This thing I'm calling a "bridge" is softer on the guitar compared to the rest of the song, and I guess I could have used a pedal to make it easier to alternate between the harder parts and the softer bridge, but recently I've been trying to plug straight to the amp as often as I can because I love playing that way. It can also be a good exercise for dynamics because, in the absence of a footswitch to turn overdrive/distortion on and off, I had to do it using my guitar's volume knob and right-hand dynamics.

Speaking of guitar, in terms of gear, I used my custom shop Tele guitar, which is the one I feature the most on these videos, plugged straight into a Meteoro amp. The guitar is excellent; the amp, not so much, but I think I could still get a decent sound out of them.

Well, that's it for now! I have some other things planned for my following videos, and hopefully, it won't be too long before I can record and post them!

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/aezktzop
After a short absence, I'm back with a #teletuesday post! I was very busy last week and, not gonna lie, a little less organized than I usually am, so I didn't have time to do my post for that week.

This week is being completely different, though, and I'm feeling productive as I haven't in a long time! I hope I can carry on this productivity streak throughout the week!

But let's talk about the song!

Box Car Racer, for those who don't know them, was a side project by Blink 182 singer and guitarist Tom DeLonge. The group also included drummer Travis Barker, also from Blink 182 and guitarrist David Kennedy of Hazen Street.

Despite having two members of Blink 182, Box Car Racer was a very different project. It also had strong roots in punk rock but the lyrics and general vibe of the songs were much more mature and, why not, darker.

Their first and only album named simply Box Car Racer featured 13 songs and did quite well commercially despite the fact that there was virtually no promotion for it.

Even after the unexpected success o the album, the project was shelved by Tom in 2003.

However, he confirmed last year that Travis and himself were working on a new song for the project that has yet to be released.

Personally, I like most of the songs on the album but, for some reason, "Letters to God" speaks to me in a special way and that is why I chose this song.

It's a simple song but I really like the way it starts very soft and easy and then breaks down in a heavy punk song at the end. There is also a piano part which I wasn't able to keep in the backtrack because the AI used to generate it was a bit confused and put it together with the guitar track, which was removed but I still liked te final result!

As usual, I used my custom shop Tele type guitar, a Meteoro amp and a BOSS OD 20 emulating a Proco Rat for the heavy part. The clean sound was just the Tele plugged straight into the amp.

I hope you guys enjoy it and feel free to provide any feedback or suggestions for next songs on the comments!

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/eruswntz
Hello music lovers!

I'm back with yet another guitar cover vídeo right here on 3Speak, on the Hive blockchain!

I'll do this post slightly different, according to the valuable feedback of @eugelys and instead of just talking brifly about the video and the equipment used, I'll explore a little more the reasons why I chose this one in the first place.

Green Day was a big part of my life growing up and it was one of my favorite bands before I developed a taste for classic rock and heavy metal. I may not listen to Green Day as much as I used to but I still think it's a great bandand I give it a listen every now and then.

But to understand the reasons why I chose this song today we must go back almost 20 years in time!

The year is 2004 and Green Day has just released American Idiot, the album that changed it all for me. Of course, as every teenager who was a Green Day fan, I ran to grab my copy but I had no idea what expected me.

Lyrics about protest whit some political influence was not exactly new to Green Day but American Idiot took that to a whole new level.

It wasn't just an album with great songs. No! It was an opera. It told a story and it was awesome! It was like every time I listened to the album, I picked up a different aspect of the story and a different part of the message that the band wanted to convey. It was different from anything they had done before and, I dare to say, anything they would ever do from that moment on!

American Idiot is still one of my favorite albums not just by Green Day, but of all times!

It was hard to pick one song from this album because they are all so great and I will definitely do others in the future but something kept making me coming back to Letterbomb. I don't know if it's that iconic intro ("Nobody likes you, everyone left you They're all out without you, having fun") or maybe what Billy Joe says on the bridge ("Where will all the martyrs go when the virus cures itself?") but I just think this song has a powerfull message, one that I wanted to help spread to the word.

I hope you enjoyed the final result.

The song was recorded with my custom shop Tele-style guitar, a Meteoro amp that has seen better days and a BOSS-OD20 pedal emulating a ProCo RAT, which was quite an unusual choice if I may say so because I don't think Green Day ever used anything rmeotely close to that. But what can I say? I tried, liked it so I used it!

But that's it for today! All feedback is apreciated and let me know if you have any suggestion of what song I should try next!

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/aahdsexn
I'm a big hard rock fan and the Scorpions have some great tunes in that genre. I'm learning this song to play with my band so I thought I'd share it here with my followers.

As you can tell, it's still far from done. The solo is sounding kinda crappy.. not sure if I'm hitting wrong notes or just getting the "feel" wrong but it surely needs improvement. The original track also has many other guitar licks that I didn't do because I'm still learning them.

I learn the song bit by bit and really the most important parts are the rythm and solo guitars so those were the priority here.

As usual, I recoreded this with my good old custom shopt Tele style guitar, a small meteoro amp and my Boss OD-20 emulating the Fulltone OCD distortion.

I hope you enjoy it!

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/cjmfgfwq
Hello eveyone,

I've been posting some guitar covers for the last few weeks and some people approached me asking how I record them so I decided to record some videos showing my process.

I hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/khgkbxis
I don´t do a lot of Zep covers, even though its my favorite band and the reason for that is because most of the songs are a lot of work to record!

They aren't exactly hard and I can play quite a few of them but as you may know, Jimmy Page and the Zep engineering team were real studio magicians so Zep songs are very intricate woth effects, overdubs, unusual instruments and whatnot.

That´s one of the reasons why I decided to go with Immigrant Song this time because despite being a great and powerful song, it is actualy very simple and straigthfroward.

I'm quite happy with this one because, while it wasn't my best guitar performance, I finally learned how to sync audio with video on my editing software. In all my other videos the audio was slightly behind the video and I think sometimes it looked like I wasn´t really playing. Well, I believe I was able to fix that this time!

As usual, I used my good old Custom Tele, a Meteoro Amp and a BOOS-OD-20 emulating a Tube Screamer.

Let me know what you think in the comment section and feel free to suggest another song for me to attempt!

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=tfranzini/wkmtvakn
I missed #teletuesday today due to lack of time but I decided to record a quick song anyway.

This time I chose "Interstate Love Song" by the Stone Temple Pilots. This song is rather simple and easy to play but it has some interesting time signatures and also a couple of very interesting - and dissonant! - chords.

All in all, it's a very fun one to play! I really like STP and will most likely bring other songs by them in the future.

For this, I used my loyal Custom Shop Tele, a small Meteoro amp and a BOSS OD-20 pedal emulating a Fulltone OCD, which is a great distortion!

Let me know your thoughts and stay tuned for more!