RSL
Level 2
QN: 601/7990/9
Curriculum Active
RSL Level 2 Certificate For Music Practitioners
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by RSL. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1860 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 2
Awarding Body
RSL
Syllabus Units
31 Units
Guided Hours
1860 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Auditioning for Music
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Audition effectively for a specific music role
2
Careers in Music
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Assess their current skill set to identify appropriate, potential areas for employment
3
Composing for Media
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create music for media applications
4
Composing Lyrics
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Compose lyrics and assess own skill development as a lyricist
5
Composing Music - Collaboration
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create a set of finished, original music for performance or recording and assess its success and their own development as a composer/collaborator
6
Composing Music - Solo
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create a set of finished, original music for performance or recording and assess its success and their own development as a composer
7
Composing Music - Style
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create a finished musical work in a defined style and assess its success and own skill development
8
Creating Music With Mobile Technology
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create and perform music using mobile technology based music applications
9
Digital Recording & Production
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Plan a recording session and use a digital audio workstation or audio recorder to record music, Edit recorded works to create audio/recordings and consider the success of these
10
DJ Skills
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate appropriate setting up and operation of DJ equipment
11
Earning Money in the Music Industry
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand income generation for a music artist from the composition, live performance and recorded performance of music
12
How the Music Industry Works
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the structure of, and revenue streams within, the music industry
13
Improving Instrumental Performance
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the basic care requirements of an instrument and the instrumentalist
- Plan and use a range of methods to develop instrument-specific technique
- Review progress in instrumental techniques, identifying strengths and areas for development
14
Listening to Music
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the relationship between key elements of music and emotional response
15
Live Music Performance
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Perform a music set in a specific live environment
16
Music Arrangement - Styles
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Produce contrasting arrangements of a song/piece and reflect on the success of the arrangements and their own skill development
17
Music Artist and You
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate how the work of a music artist has influenced their own work
18
Music Marketing & Promotion
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand marketing and promotional processes as applied to a promotional campaign for an artist in the music industry
19
Music Rehearsal Skills
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Rehearse effectively for a specific music performance and identify strengths and areas for development
20
Music Sequencing & Production
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to use digital audio workstation (DAW) software to create a music project and assess their own strengths and areas for development in using a DAW as a tool to create music
21
Music Style in Context
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the context and musical elements relevant to a specified style of music
22
Music Video Production
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Plan and produce a music video and assess its success, identifying personal strengths and areas for development
23
Organising a Music Event
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Contribute to the organisation of a defined music event
24
Podcast Production
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create and produce a podcast and identify personal strengths and areas for development relevant to podcast production
25
Practical Harmony Application
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Compose chord progressions demonstrating an understanding of the functional application of block harmony, Compose melodies and bass lines for chord progressions demonstrating understanding of the relationship between harmony and melody
26
Practical Musicianship
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand and use musicianship skills in a practical context
27
Recorded Music Performance
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Perform in a recording studio environment and identify strengths and areas for development
28
Remixing and Production
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create a remix of a given song using recognised audio production processes and assess its strengths and areas for development
29
Sound Recording
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Plan a recording session
- Use a multi-track recorder to record a piece of music in a studio or live situation and assess personal strengths and areas for development
30
Sound Reinforcement
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Use a small PA system and understand personal development in relation to using sound reinforcement equipment
31
Using a DAW and Controller Keyboard
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Describe the key elements in the operation of digital audio workstation (DAW) software including the components within a project
- Understand how to configure a keyboard controller with a Digital Audio Workstation
- Use a keyboard to input music in real time into a Digital Audio Workstation
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 601/7990/9
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- RSL
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Oct 2015