RSL
Level 2
QN: 603/6431/2
Curriculum Active
RSL Level 2 Certificate in the Creative Music Industry
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by RSL. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 2220 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 2
Awarding Body
RSL
Syllabus Units
37 Units
Guided Hours
2220 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 and identify potential areas for employment.
3
Collaborative Music Composition
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the skills to collaborate to create finished original repertoire.
4
Composing Lyrics
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the skills to write lyrics to pieces of music.
5
Composing Music (Styles)
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create a finished musical work in a defined style.
6
Composing Music for Media Destinations
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create music for media applications.
7
Creating a Social Media Strategy
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Develop a strategy to promote an identified product, service or event to a specified audience, using social media.
8
Development of Music Technology
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the effects of the development of music technology on music recording.
9
Digital Recording and Production
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Record sound sources and edit recordings using digital audio recording equipment.
10
DJ Skills
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the ability to set up and operate DJ equipment.
11
Earning Money in the Music Industry
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand income generation for a music artist from composition and live and recorded performance.
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 c care requirements of an instrument and the instrumentalist.2.
- Plan and use a range of methods to develop instrument-specific technique.3.
- Review progress in instrumental techniques, identifying strengths and areas for development.
14
Improvising Music
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the ability to improvise in music, displaying awareness of the context of the improvisation.
15
Listening to Music
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the relationship between key elements of music and emotional response.
16
Live Event Health and Safety
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand health and safety policy and procedures in relation to the management of a safe event.
17
Managing a Social Media Campaign
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create a social media campaign to promote an identified product, service or event to a specifiedaudience.
18
Music Artist and You
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate how the work of a music artist has influenced their own work.
19
Music Marketing and Promotion
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand marketing and promotional processes within the music industry.
20
Music Sequencing and Production
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to use DAW software to create a music project.
21
Music Styles in Context
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the context and musical elements relevant to a specified style of music.
22
Organising a Music Event
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Contribute to the organisation of a defined music event.
23
Performing Music for Recording
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate skills to perform music in a recording studio environment.
24
Performing Music Live
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the skills to perform music in a live environment.
25
Performing Music to Camera
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the skills to perform in a music video.
26
Podcast Production
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create and produce a podcast.
27
Practical Harmony
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Compose chord progressions, demonstrating an understanding of the functional application of block harmony.2. Compose melodies and bass lines for chord progressions, demonstrating an understanding of the relationship between harmony and melody.3.
- Assess areas of success and those requiring further development in relation to practical harmony application.
28
Practical Musicianship
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand and use musicianship skills in a practical context.
29
Practical Sound Reinforcement
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate how to set up
- use and dismantle a small PA system.
30
Producing a Music Video
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Plan and produce a music video.
31
Production for Digital Media
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Create digital audio for a range of media products and destinations.
32
Recording Sound
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Plan and record a piece of music in a studio or live situation.
33
Rehearsing Music
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the skills to rehearse for a specific music performance.
34
Remixing and Production
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the skills to create a remix of a given song using audio production processes.
35
Solo Music Composition
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the skills to compose a set of finished original music.2.
- Describe their creative processes and review the success of their compositions.
36
Sound Mixing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate the ability to create a mix in a specified style from a multitrack recording.
37
Using a Keyboard with a DAW
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Describe the key elements in the operation of DAW software and understand how to configure a keyboard controller with a DAW.2.
- Use a keyboard to input music in real time into a DAW.3.
- Review strengths and areas requiring further development in relation to using a keyboard with a DAW.
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 603/6431/2
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- RSL
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2020