BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate in Music Performance (Rock & Pop)

In your second year you will discover how to organise and arrange your own live music events, ensuring fellow musicians have equal roles and fulfil them in providing a successful performance. Roles will include designing and distributing posters around your venue as well as social media, booking and hiring of venues, organising equipment, and so on. These performances will be in a venue chosen by yourself and can be anywhere around Truro or beyond. Your final major project will be assessed on performing; an interesting and varied set of music will be crucial. The aim of the Ensemble Performance assignment is to widen your ensemble skills. This is done through regular sessions, developing knowledge in organizing an appropriate set for a musical event. You will ensure that your parts have been learnt whilst listening and critically feeding back to your ensemble with any amendments that you think will improve the overall sound. As a group you will also delegate roles and regularly discuss aims and objectives, which will contribute to a performance.

Throughout the year you will perform three performances in front of an audience, and in the Solo Music Performance module you will learn three pieces on your instrument. A ten-week practice diary explaining your routines and improvements will accompany these pieces. This part of the course is required in order to develop a discipline for your instrument as well as a structured practice routine in furthering your performance skills. In the Practical Music Theory & Harmony module the aim is to allow you to understand and recognize intervals, cadences and rhythms. Any aspiring musician needs a comprehensive understanding of how to hear these aspects of music quickly and use them in developing it for themselves and other musicians. This assignment will be assessed through three separate aural tests.