Music Maestros

What activities can you expect to experience?

Whilst studying this course, you will study a strand of music from composition, performance, technology or music business. You will create a unique project which allows you to follow your own path and create something you are interested in.

Composition

• Composing Music (Styles)
  
• Demonstrate skills to create finished musical works in defined styles evaluating the results and
  
• on skill development
  
• Work alone to compose two completed musical pieces, each a minimum of three and a maximum of four minutes
  
• Describe the arrangement of the composed pieces
  
• Evaluate how well the compositions created met the specified criteria
  

Performance

• Live music performance and analysis. Students are required to demonstrate the skills to perform a set in a specific live environment and identify strengths and areas for improvement
  
• Analyse personal aims in relation to the live performance of a musical set
  
• Analyse a range of suitable, available performance situations
  
• Undertake the live music performance
  
• Draw conclusions on the success
  

Technology

• Music Sequencing and Production: Demonstration use of digital audio workstation software to create a project file and evaluate the results
  
• Use synthesis, sampling, quantisation, audio and midi editing, automation, the use of inserts and send effects and bouncing
  
• Create a project log to explain the work undertaken
  

Business

• Getting Work in Music: Establish strategies for generating sustainable income in the UK music industry
  
• Evaluate three roles or functions within supply chain or areas of work in the music industry
  
• Devise and explain personal strategies to generate revenue
  
• Evaluate learning by assembling a portfolio