RSL
    Level 3
    QN: 601/7693/3
    Curriculum Active

    RSL Level 3 Extended Diploma For Music Practitioners

    Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by RSL. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 6810 hours.

    Qualification Level
    Level 3
    Awarding Body
    RSL
    Syllabus Units
    87 Units
    Guided Hours
    6810 hrs
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    Course Syllabus & Study Modules

    Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

    1

    Analogue Synthesis Software Based

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand principles and operation of subtractive synthesis.
    • Demonstrate skills to create patches using virtual analogue synthesizers and evaluate the results.
    2

    Arranging Music - Applications

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to arrange a piece of music for different applications, working to specific briefs, evaluating the results and their own skill development.
    3

    Auditioning For Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to audition effectively for a specific music role and identify strengths and areas for development.
    4

    Choreographing Popular Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • 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.
    5

    Composing Collaboration and Recorded Performance

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Compose a set of finished original music for performance or recording in collaboration with a second writer
    • Perform music in a recording studio environment
    6

    Composing for Adverts and TV

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate skills to create music for advertising and TV, evaluating the results and own skill development.
    7

    Composing for Film and Documentary

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to create for a film/documentary application evaluating its success and own skill development.
    8

    Composing for Interactive Media

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to create music for interactive media, evaluating the results and their own skill development.
    9

    Composing Lyrics

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to write lyrics for specific outcomes and assess own skill development as a lyric writer.
    10

    Composing Music - Collaboration

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Collaborate with a second writer to compose a set of finished original music for performance or recording, evaluating results and their own skill development.
    11

    Composing Music - Solo

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Compose a set of finished, original music
    • evaluate the results and their own skill development.
    12

    Composing Music - Styles

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate skills to create finished musical works in defined styles, evaluating the results and own skill development.
    13

    Composing Music Solo and Remixing & Production

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Compose a set of finished, original music
    • Create a remix using audio production processes
    14

    Composing Styles and Music Sequencing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Compose one complete musical piece in a defined style
    • Use digital audio workstation software to create a project file
    15

    Contextualising Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate contextual knowledge in relation to different styles of music.
    16

    Contracts In The Music Industry

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role and application of contracts in the UK music industry in a range of contexts.
    17

    Copyright In The Music Industry

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate an understanding of music copyright in relation to their own musical work and associated creative output.
    18

    Creating a Sample Library

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand copyright and legal considerations in relation to sample libraries.
    • Demonstrate skills to create an original sample library, evaluating the results and own skill development.
    19

    Dance for Musicians

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of fitness and technical development for a dancer.
    • Demonstrate dance skills in popular music.
    20

    Development of Music Recording Technology

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Research and evaluate the historical development of recording media.
    • evaluate and compare digital and analogue recording mediums, assessing current usage.
    21

    Development of Sound Sources

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the main technological developments underpinning sampling evolution.
    • Understand the main technological developments underpinning synthesis evolution.
    • Evaluate the use of samplers and synthesizers in popular music.
    22

    Digital Recording and Production

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • plan and prepare for a digital recording session.
    • Use a digital audio workstation or audio recorder to record musical sound sources.
    • Demonstrate skills to edit recorded works to create audio/recordings and consider the success of these.
    23

    Digital Synthesis

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the principles of digital synthesis.
    • Demonstrate skills to create patches using digital synthesis and evaluate the results.
    24

    Evolution of the Record Industry

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the development of the UK recording industry.
    25

    Getting Work In Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Establish strategies for generating sustainable income in the UK music industry.
    26

    Improving Instrumental Performance

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • 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.
    • Know how to review progress in instrumental techniques and identify strengths and areas for development.
    27

    Lead Performer

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate stagecraft skills in the role of a lead performer in a specific musical performance and evaluate their own suitability to the role.
    28

    Leading a Music-Making Activity

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to lead music making activity and evaluate its success and assess own skills and areas requiring further development
    29

    Lighting for Music Events

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate how to plan and programme lighting for a specified event, evaluating the results and own skill development.
    30

    Listening to Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Recognise the relationship between key elements in music and the personal responses they elicit.
    31

    Live Music Performance

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to perform a set in a specific live environment and identify strengths and areas requiring development.
    32

    Live Sound Engineering: FOH

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate how to use a professional, performance-level Front of Ho
    • use PA system for a specified event, evaluating the results and own skill development.
    33

    Live Sound Engineering: Monitors

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate how to use a professional, performance-level monitor system for a specified event, evaluating the results and own skill development.
    34

    Live Sound Recording

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate how to plan a live recording session effectively
    • Demonstrate how to use an audio recorder to record a piece of music, evaluating and analysing the process.
    35

    Live Sound Recording and Sound Reinforcement

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan a live recording of a piece of music, Set up a performance-level PA system for a live music event
    • Create a live recording of a piece of music
    • Evaluate the success of the installation of sound reinforcement equipment and the finished recording
    36

    Music Arrangement - Orchestration

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to arrange and orchestrate music for ensembles, evaluating the results and their own skill development.
    37

    Music Artist and The Media

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Evaluate the role of the media in the promotion of a music artist/producer.
    38

    Music Dissertation

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Produce a dissertation project which objectively answers a chosen music-related question.
    39

    Music Event Health & Safety

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand health & safety policy and procedures in relation to the management of a safe event.
    40

    Music Event Management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Contribute to the running of a musical event (or a series of musical events) by working in a team in a managerial capacity.
    41

    Music Improvisation

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the ability to improvise in music, displaying awareness of the context of the improvisation.
    42

    Music Instrument Development

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Analyse the development and cultural significance of a musical instrument in popular music.
    43

    Music Management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the roles and responsibilities involved in managing a music project or artist and apply the findings to a project of their choice.
    44

    Music Marketing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role and processes of marketing in the UK music industry.
    45

    Music Performance to Camera

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate skills to perform in a music video and identify strengths and areas requiring further development.
    46

    Music Press And Journalism

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Develop journalistic skills by reviewing and creating a range of journalistic output.
    47

    Music Promotion

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the concept of product promotion in the UK music industry and apply techniques in a variety of contexts.
    48

    Music Promotion and Event Management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan to manage and promote a musical event
    • Manage a musical event
    • Evaluate the success of the event
    49

    Music Publishing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the means by which music can be published and the associated ways in which revenue might be generated.
    50

    Music Rehearsal Skills

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to rehearse effectively for a specific music performance and identify strengths and areas for development.
    51

    Music Sequencing and Production

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate use of digital audio workstation software to create a project file and evaluate the results, understanding strengths and areas for development.
    52

    Music Sequencing and Production - Media

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • 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.
    53

    Music Stage Management

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to stage manage a specified music event, evaluating results and their own skill development.
    54

    Music Video Production

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to plan effectively for video production.
    • Demonstrate the skills to produce a music video to a brief.
    55

    Musical Director

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand requirements of the role of a musical director.
    • Demonstrate the skills to direct musical performance, understanding personal suitability for this type of role.
    56

    Planning for a Career In Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan effectively to develop a range of knowledge and skills to support future engagement with the music profession
    57

    Practical Harmony Application - Pedals

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand and apply the harmonic principles and functions of pedal tones
    • evaluate the results and their own skill development.
    58

    Practical Harmony Application Chord Substitution

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand and apply the principles of chord substitution in relation to compositional ideas, evaluating the results and own skill development.
    59

    Practical Harmony Application Chords and Progressions

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • 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.
    60

    Practical Musicianship

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Listen to, internalise and re
    • produce musical elements and ideas
    • Communicate musical elements and ideas to others, in an appropriate format.
    61

    Radio/Podcast Production

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate how to create and record a radio programme/podcast and evaluate its success.
    62

    Recorded Music Performance

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate skills to perform music in a recording studio environment and identify strengths and areas requiring further development.
    63

    Rehearsal Skills and Live Music Performance

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan to rehearse for a live music performance, Rehearse effectively for a live music performance, Present a live music performance and identify strengths and areas requiring development
    64

    Remixing & Production

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to create remixes of a given song using audio production processes and evaluate the results and own skill development.
    65

    Revenue Flow In The Music Industry

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the flow of revenue through the UK music industry and their own place within it.
    66

    Royalties And Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the role of collection societies, labels and publishers in the collation and distribution of royalties in the UK music industry.
    67

    Selling Recorded Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • 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.
    68

    Session Musician

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate skills required to operate as a session musician and evaluate suitability for the role.
    69

    Setting Up a Music Business

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Identify their own ability as entrepreneurs and create a business idea and supporting rationale.
    70

    Setting Up a Music Business & Selling Music

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand their own ability as entrepreneurs
    • 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
    • Develop and pitch a business idea
    • Evaluate the business idea and pitch
    71

    Sound Reinforcement

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate how to set up a performance-level PA system and understand personal development in relation to installation of sound reinforcement equipment.
    72

    Studio Audio Mastering

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate skills to master music mixes for the creation of final music product.
    73

    Studio Sound Mixing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate how to manage a studio mixing session using audio mixing skills and recognise personal development.
    74

    Studio Sound Recording

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan and prepare for a studio recording session
    • Produce a studio recording, evaluating the results and their own skill development
    75

    Studio Sound Recording and Mixing

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Plan and prepare for a studio recording session
    • Produce a studio recording
    • Create mixes of multi-track recordings
    • Evaluate recordings and mixes
    76

    Understanding Live Sound Design

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Analyse the relationship between variations in live event environments and sound reinforcement application.
    • Analyse the technical requirements of sound reinforcement application., Consider the wider implications of providing sound reinforcement.
    77

    Understanding Musical Influences

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the importance of musical influence in the creation of new music.
    78

    Understanding Musical Styles

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the development and interaction of styles and associated sub-styles of music.
    • Understand wider historical and social contexts relating to styles of music.
    79

    Understanding Recording Studio Design

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand basic principles of recording studio design.
    • Understand the technical requirements of current recording studios.
    • Understand business aspects of recording studio operation.
    80

    Understanding Recording Techniques

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand basic acoustic principles.
    • Understand the technical operation of microphones.
    • Understand how compression, gating and EQ can affect a recorded signal.
    81

    Using a DAW - Research

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Evaluate the use of a Digital Audio Workstation in the production of a piece of music.
    82

    Using a DAW Analysis

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the operation of digital audio workstation hardware and software.
    83

    Using a Keyboard with a DAW

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand how to configure a keyboard controller with a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).
    • Use a keyboard to input music in real time into a DAW, evaluating the results and their own skill development.
    84

    Using Dynamic Processors

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the function and operation of dynamic processors, demonstrating skills required to use dynamic processors to process recorded sounds.
    85

    Using Equalisation & Filters

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand sound in relation to equalisation and filtering.
    • Demonstrate skills to apply corrective equalisation and filtering to recorded sounds.
    86

    Using Multi-Effects

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Understand the function, purpose and key parameters of effects and demonstrate the skills to use them.
    87

    Working as a Freelance Music Practitioner

    Verified
    Key Learning Objectives:
    • Demonstrate the skills to manage a music related portfolio career, understanding personal suitability for this type of career.

    Regulatory & Verification Details

    Qualification Number (QN)
    601/7693/3
    Regulated Status
    Available to learners
    Awarding Body
    RSL
    Qualification Type
    Vocationally-Related Qualification
    Operational Start
    Sept 2016

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