RSL Level 3 Award for Music Practitioners

What you'll be able to do

• Understand principles and operation of subtractive synthesis.
• Demonstrate skills to create patches using virtual analogue synthesizers and evaluate the results.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate the skills to audition effectively for a specific music role and identify strengths and areas for development.

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• Analyse the employability skills required in a range of UK music industry job roles and plan for skill development in a chosen area of employment.

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• Demonstrate choreographic skills in relation to dance in a popular music idiom.
• Demonstrate ability to direct a choreographed dance piece and recognise own potential to create choreography.

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• Demonstrate the skills to write lyrics for specific outcomes and assess own skill development as a lyric writer.

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• Collabourate with a second writer to compose a set of finished, original music for performance or recording and evaluate its success and their own skill development.

What you'll be able to do

• Compose a set of finished, original music and evaluate its success and own skill development.

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• Demonstrate skills to create finished musical works in defined styles and evaluate their success and own skill development.

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• Demonstrate the skills to create music for advertising and TV programming applications evaluating its success and own skill development.

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• Demonstrate the skills to create music for computer games, and understand strengths and areas for development in relation to composing for computer games.

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• Demonstrate the skills to create for a film/documentary application evaluating its success and own skill development.

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• Demonstrate contextual knowledge in relation to specified styles of music.

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• Understand the role and application of contracts in the UK music industry in a range of contexts.

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• Demonstrate an understanding of music copyright in relation to their own musical work and associated creative output.

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• Demonstrate skills to create an original sample library and evaluate the results.

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• Understand the importance of fitness and technical development for a dancer.
• Demonstrate dance skills in popular music.

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• Demonstrate the skills to create and deliver a music-related masterclass and evaluate its success.

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• Demonstrate the skills to create and deliver a music-related workshop and evaluate its success.

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• Research and evaluate the historical development of recording media.
• 0 Analyse, evaluate and compare digital and analogue recording mediums, assessing current usage.

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• Understand the function of a sequencer, identifying different types and their historical evolution.
• Understand the historical development of MIDI.
• Recognise the technical requirements of a Digital Audio Workstation computer.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the main technological developments underpinning sampling evolution.
• Understand the main technological developments underpinning synthesis evolution.
• Appreciate the use of samplers or synthesisers in popular music.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate how to plan a recording session and use a digital audio workstation or audio recorder to record music.
• Demonstrate skills to edit recorded works to create audio/recordings and consider the success of these.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles of digital synthesis.
• Demonstrate skills to create patches using digital synthesis and evaluate the results.

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• Understand the development of the UK recording industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Establish strategies for generating sustainable income in the UK music industry.

What you'll be able to do

• Critique own instrument and associated equipment with regard to effective, safe operation, current selection and future personal development.
• Understand how to develop instrument-specific technique appropriate to performance at this level.
• Review progress in instrumental techniques and identify strengths and areas for development.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate stagecraft skills in the role of a lead performer in a specific musical performance and evaluate their own suitability to the role.

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• Demonstrate how to plan and programme lighting for a specific event and consider its success.

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• Recognise the relationship between the key elements of music and an emotional response to it.

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• Demonstrate the skills to perform a set in a specific live environment and identify strengths and areas requiring development.

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• Demonstrate how to use a professional performance-level Front of House PA system for a specified event using effective preparation and planning. Assess personal development in relation to operating professional PA systems.

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• Demonstrate how to use a professional performance-level monitor system for a specified event using effective preparation and planning.
• Assess personal development in relation to operating professional monitor systems.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate how to plan a recording session and how to use an audio recorder to record a piece of music evaluating and analysing the process.

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• Demonstrate how to mix audio for surround sound applications and recognise personal development.

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• Demonstrate the skills to orchestrate music for ensembles and evaluate the results and own skill development.

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• Demonstrate the skills to arrange existing song/pieces for specific applications and evaluate the success of the results and own skill development.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate the skills to arrange a piece of music for different recording applications and evaluate the results and own skill development.

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• Evaluate the role of the media in the promotion of a music artist/producer.

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• Produce a dissertation project which objectively answers a chosen music-related question.

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• Understand health & safety policy and procedures in relation to the management of a safe event.

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• Contribute to the running of a musical event (or a series of musical events) by working in a team in a managerial capacity.

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• Demonstrate the ability to improvise in music, displaying awareness of the context of the improvisation.

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• Understand the development and cultural significance of a musical instrument.

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• Understand the roles and responsibilities involved in managing a music project or artist and apply the findings to a project of their choice.

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• Understand the role and processes of marketing in the UK music industry, including market analysis, branding, promotion and distribution

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• Demonstrate skills to perform in a music video and identify strengths and areas requiring further development.

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• Develop journalistic skills by reviewing and creating a range of journalistic output.

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• Understand promotion of product in the UK music Industry and apply techniques in a variety of contexts.

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• Understand the means by which music can be published and the associated ways in which revenue might be generated.

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• Demonstrate the skills to rehearse effectively for a specific music performance and identify strengths and areas for development.

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• Demonstrate use of digital audio workstation software to create a project file and evaluate the results, understanding strengths and areas for development.

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• Demonstrate how to prepare a media project file.
• Demonstrate how to use digital audio workstation software to create audio for a film/video and evaluate the results.

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• Demonstrate the skills to stage manage a specified music event and evaluate its success, understanding personal strengths and areas for development.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate the skills to plan effectively for video production.
• Demonstrate the skills to produce a music video to a brief.

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• Understand requirements of the role of a musical director.
• Demonstrate skills to direct musical performance and recognise own potential to direct musical performance.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate musicianship skills and understand personal development in relation to musicianship.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the principles and functions of pedal tones (point) in harmony
• Create a short piece of music which incorporates the principles discussed in 1.1 and evaluate the process

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• Understand different note against note movement using two part harmony voices.
• Create contrapuntal harmony ideas using different forms of motion and apply it to an existing chord progression.

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• Understand the principles of chord substitution in relation to compositional ideas.
• Use substitutions to create new chord progressions and reharmonise existing ones.

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• Understand aspects of harmony using extended and altered chords built from the major and harmonic minor scales.
• Understand aspects of modal chord progressions and their usage.

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• Demonstrate how to create and record a radio programme/podcast and evaluate its success.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate skills to perform music in a recording studio environment and identify strengths and areas requiring further development.

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• Demonstrate the skills to create remixes of a given song using audio production processes and evaluate the results and own skill development.

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• Understand the flow of revenue through the UK music industry and their own place within it.

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• Demonstrate skills to rewire software and synchronise hardware for a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).

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• Understand the role of collection societies and the distribution of royalties in the UK music industry.

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• Understand the means by which recorded music can be released to the public and the associated ways in which revenue and promotion might be generated by releasing music.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate skills required to operate as a session musician an evaluate suitability to the role.

What you'll be able to do

• Identify their own ability as entrepreneurs and create a business idea and supporting rationale.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate how to set up a performance-level PA system and understand personal development in relation to installation of sound reinforcement equipment.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate skills to master music mixes for the creation of final music product.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate how to manage a studio mixing session using audio mixing skills and recognise personal development.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate how to plan and manage a studio recording session, displaying recording skills and techniques, evaluating the recorded results in relation to personal skill development.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand relationship of venues to sound reinforcement applications.
• Understand technical requirements of modern sound reinforcement applications.
• Understand finance and health & safety aspects of sound reinforcement provision.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the importance of musical influence on the creation of new music.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the development and interaction of styles and associated sub-styles of music.
• Understand wider historical and social contexts relating to styles of music.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand basic principles of recording studio design.
• Understand technical requirements of modern recording studios.
• Understand business aspects of recording studio operation.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand basic acoustic principles.
• Understand the technical operation of microphones.
• Understand how compression, gating and EQ can affect a recorded signal.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the creative process in music and apply the principles to their own musical development.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the function and operation of dynamic processors, demonstrating skills required to use dynamic processors to process recorded sounds.

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• Understand sound in relation to equalisation and filtering, demonstrating skills required to apply corrective equalisation and filtering to recorded sounds.

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• Understand the function, purpose and key parametres of effects and demonstrate the skills to use them.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the usage of a Digital Audio Workstation by analysing the components of a given professional musical work file created using digital audio workstation software.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand the operation of digital audio workstation hardware and software.

What you'll be able to do

• Understand how to configure a keyboard controller with a Digital Audio Workstation and demonstrate skills to use a keyboard to input music in real time into a Digital Audio Workstation.

What you'll be able to do

• Demonstrate the skills to manage a music related portfolio career, recognising own potential in relation to this.