RSL Awards Ltd · RQF Level 2
RSL Level 2 Extended Certificate For Music Practitioners
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits30
- Guided learning180 hours
- Units in this qualification31
Awarded by RSL Awards Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
RSL Awards have a complete portfolio of Vocational Qualifications, covering Music, Performing Arts and Creative Digital Media from Levels 1-5.
These are the units RSL Awards Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Auditioning for MusicReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare thoroughly for a specific music audition, selecting appropriate repertoire and developing performance skills
- Perform confidently and effectively during a music audition, showcasing their musical abilities and potential
- Respond appropriately to feedback and direction provided during the audition process
- Evaluate their own audition performance, identifying strengths and areas for improvement in future auditions
Careers in MusicReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess their current musical skills, knowledge, and experience to identify strengths and weaknesses
- Research and identify a range of potential career paths within the music industry that align with their skills and interests
- Evaluate the skills and qualifications required for specific music careers, identifying any gaps in their own skillset
- Develop a plan to address any identified skills gaps and pursue appropriate training or experience to enhance their employability in the music industry
Composing LyricsReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Compose lyrics for a song or musical piece
- Assess own skill development as a lyricist
- Evaluate the effectiveness of own lyrics in conveying intended meaning and emotion
Composing Music - CollaborationReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create a set of finished, original music suitable for performance or recording
- Assess the success of the created music in relation to its intended purpose
- Evaluate personal development as a composer and collaborator throughout the creative process
Composing Music - SoloReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create a set of finished, original music for performance
- Create a set of finished, original music for recording
- Assess the success of their original music
- Assess their own development as a composer
Composing Music - StyleReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create a finished musical work in a defined style
- Assess the success of the finished musical work
- Evaluate own skill development in composing music in a defined style
Composing for MediaReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create music suitable for specified media applications
Creating Music With Mobile TechnologyReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create original musical ideas and compositions using mobile technology based music applications
- Perform music effectively using mobile technology based music applications, demonstrating technical proficiency
- Demonstrate an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of mobile technology in music creation and performance
- Evaluate the effectiveness of their music creation and performance using mobile technology, identifying areas for development
DJ SkillsReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the appropriate setting up of DJ equipment, ensuring correct connections and configurations
- Demonstrate the appropriate operation of DJ equipment, performing basic mixing and blending techniques
Digital Recording & ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a recording session, considering resources, equipment, and timings
- Use a digital audio workstation (DAW) or audio recorder to record music, demonstrating appropriate techniques
- Edit recorded works to create audio/recordings, applying editing techniques to enhance the final product
- Evaluate the success of the recording session and edited works, identifying areas of strength and areas for improvement
Earning Money in the Music IndustryReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand income generation for a music artist from the composition of music
- Understand income generation for a music artist from the live performance of music
- Understand income generation for a music artist from the recorded performance of music
How the Music Industry WorksReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the organisational structure of the music industry
- Understand the various revenue streams that exist within the music industry
Improving Instrumental PerformanceReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the basic care requirements of a musical instrument
- Understand the basic care requirements of an instrumentalist
- Plan a range of methods to develop instrument-specific technique
- Use a range of methods to develop instrument-specific technique
- Review progress in instrumental techniques
- Identify strengths in instrumental techniques
- Identify areas for development in instrumental techniques
Listening to MusicReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between key elements of music
- Understand the relationship between key elements of music and emotional response
- Explain how different musical elements contribute to specific emotional responses in listeners
Live Music PerformanceReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for a live music performance in a specific environment
- Perform a music set in a specific live environment, demonstrating appropriate performance skills
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the live music performance
Music Arrangement - StylesReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Produce contrasting arrangements of a song or piece of music
- Reflect on the success of the arrangements that have been produced
- Reflect on their own skill development in music arrangement
Music Artist and YouReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate how the work of a specific music artist has influenced own musical work
- Explain the specific elements of the music artist's work that have been influential
- Illustrate how these elements have been incorporated into own musical work
Music Marketing & PromotionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand marketing processes as applied to a promotional campaign for an artist in the music industry
- Understand promotional processes as applied to a promotional campaign for an artist in the music industry
- Analyse the key elements of a marketing and promotional plan for an artist
- Evaluate the effectiveness of different marketing and promotional strategies
Music Rehearsal SkillsReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Rehearse effectively in preparation for a specific music performance
- Identify personal strengths demonstrated during the rehearsal process
- Identify areas for personal development in music rehearsal skills
Music Sequencing & ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Use digital audio workstation (DAW) software to create a music project
- Assess their own strengths in using a DAW as a tool to create music
- Assess their own areas for development in using a DAW as a tool to create music
Music Style in ContextReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the historical and cultural context relevant to a specified style of music, explaining its origins and influences
- Understand the musical elements relevant to a specified style of music, identifying key characteristics such as rhythm, melody, and harmony
Music Video ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the production of a music video, considering all relevant aspects
- Produce a music video according to the established plan
- Assess the success of the produced music video against pre-defined criteria
- Identify personal strengths demonstrated during the music video production process
- Identify areas for personal development in music video production
Organising a Music EventReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute effectively to the organisation of a defined music event, fulfiling assigned roles and responsibilities
- Demonstrate effective communication and collaboration skills within the event organisation team
- Adhere to relevant health and safety regulations and procedures during the event organisation process
- Evaluate their own contribution to the organisation of the music event, identifying areas for improvement
Podcast ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create a podcast, demonstrating technical skills and creative input
- Produce a podcast, ensuring it meets a defined brief or purpose
- Identify personal strengths relevant to podcast production, providing specific examples
- Identify areas for personal development relevant to podcast production, suggesting strategies for improvement
Practical Harmony ApplicationReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Compose chord progressions that demonstrate an understanding of the functional application of block harmony
- Explain the functional roles of chords within a progression
- Compose melodies and bass lines for chord progressions, demonstrating understanding of the relationship between harmony and melody
- Analyse the relationship between melody and harmony in existing musical works
Practical MusicianshipReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand musicianship skills in a practical context
- Apply musicianship skills in a practical context
- Use musicianship skills effectively in a practical musical performance or composition
Recorded Music PerformanceReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Perform music in a recording studio environment
- Identify strengths in their recorded music performance
- Identify areas for development in their recorded music performance
Remixing and ProductionReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create a remix of a given song using recognised audio production processes
- Assess the strengths of the remix
- Assess areas for development in the remix
Sound RecordingReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a recording session, considering equipment, environment, and musical requirements
- Use a multi-track recorder to record a piece of music in a studio or live situation
- Evaluate personal strengths and areas for development in sound recording techniques
- Analyse the quality of a recorded piece of music
Sound ReinforcementReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Set up and operate a small PA system effectively, ensuring optimal sound quality and clarity
- Troubleshoot common issues that may arise during the operation of a small PA system
- Demonstrate an understanding of personal development opportunities related to the use of sound reinforcement equipment
- Reflect on their own performance using sound reinforcement equipment, identifying areas for further learning and skill development
Using a DAW and Controller KeyboardReal unit · RSL Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the key elements in the operation of digital audio workstation (DAW) software, explaining their functions
- Explain the components within a DAW project, detailing their roles and relationships
- Understand how to configure a keyboard controller with a Digital Audio Workstation, setting up MIDI connections and parameters
- Use a keyboard to input music in real time into a Digital Audio Workstation, demonstrating accurate and expressive performance
The honest bit
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
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One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop the ability to prepare effectively for music auditions by selecting suitable repertoire, practising performance skills, preparing necessary materials, performing confidently, and evaluating their audition to improve future outcomes.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for RSL Level 2 Extended Certificate For Music Practitioners
31 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by RSL Awards Ltd.
- Auditioning for Music
- Careers in Music
- Composing Lyrics
- Composing Music - Collaboration
- Composing Music - Solo
- Composing Music - Style
and 25 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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