Nick Tsang – Pop Guitar Composition & Production: The Complete Process

Learn everything you need to write and produce guitar parts for pop music. Award-winning guitarist Nick Tsang takes you into his studio and teaches his complete pop guitar composition and production process. Follow along as he writes and produces acoustic and electric guitars on 2 pop tracks from start to finish, right in front of you, explaining every idea, decision, tool, and technique along the way.

Nick is an Award winning guitarist, songwriter and producer known for his live and recording guitar work with artists such as Ed Sheeran, The Backstreet Boys, Charli XCX, The Ting Tings, Sigrid, Busted and more.

In this class, Nick teaches you everything he knows about composing and producing guitar parts for pop music.

During class, Nick brings you into his studio and shares with you his entire creative process from start to finish. You’ll follow along with Nick as he composes and produces guitars on multiple pop tracks starting from how he prepares the tracks for recording, writing new guitar parts, designing his own guitar sounds, all the way through to mixing and exporting the final stems.

Along the way, Nick explains everything that he’s doing and thinking in detail – every idea, decision, tool and technique. There’s nowhere else you can get this level of intimate access to Nick Tsang’s brain and process.

By the end of the class, you’ll know everything you need to develop your own creative approach to compose and produce stand out guitar parts for your own music or your clients.

What You’ll Learn In Pop Guitar Composition & Production

• Nick Tsang’s unique approach to composing and producing guitars for pop music
• Setting up the DAW projects ready for recording
• Finding inspiration and starting the guitar compositions
• Mic-ing techniques for acoustic guitars
• Nick Tsang’s go-to guitars, sounds, plug-ins and FX
• Structuring the perfect rhythm and lead guitar arrangement
• Composing memorable lead guitar lines and hooks that compliment the music
• Nick Tsang’s approach to creative sound design for lead guitars
• Optimising workflow
• Creative approaches to using different guitars and why
• Advanced production and editing techniques
• Using audio effects like EQ, compression, distortion, pitch shifter etc
• Creating hooks production moments & compelling transitions between sections
• Techniques and requirements for exporting the final stems

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