UAL Level 3 Diploma & Extended Diploma in Music Performance & Production

Delivered by working musicians & producers, and supported by our own record label, Rogue, this challenging course focuses on building the relevant skills, knowledge and experience necessary to succeed as a producer and/or performer in the music industry today.
We have outstanding performance and production facilities and offer great opportunities to release music on our record label, Rogue. Working with our industry specialist teaching staff you will reach professional standards of performance & musicianship, studio recording & production and live sound engineering. There will also be opportunities to attend workshops with experienced industry professionals and to perform solo and collaboratively in college and external venues. You will have opportunities to compose and design sound for media art and fashion events and projects like fashion shows and games, films and TV soundtracks. There are also DJ facilities available.

• Working both independently and collaboratively with your peers you will develop the appropriate fundamental knowledge and techniques required to:
run studio recording sessions and to mix and master these to a professional standard prior to commercial release.
• rehearse, write and perform collaboratively at gigs in college and externally.
• set up and engineer live sound systems
• compose, arrange and mix with Logic Pro X
• understand the structure of the contemporary music industry and the job opportunities available to you as a producer/performer/live sound engineer.
• market and promote releases and live events - as well as yourself as a performer/artist/producer/band member.
• Understand the roots and subsequent development of popular music, its place in society and how technology has been central to this and learn about Pop history.

You will then be able to develop the specialist skills integral to your chosen pathway - either PRODUCTION or PERFORMANCE


MUSIC PRODUCTION SPECIALIST SKILLS
• Develop studio production techniques for commercial releases on Rogue
• Understand the different forms of synthesis and advanced sampling &audio manipulation techniques in sound creation - Utilise technologies in performance in conjunction with other art forms
• Learn marketing and promotion skills
MUSIC PERFORMANCE SPECIALIST SKILLS
• Write and compose
• Perform
• Rehearsal techniques
• Improvisation – Jazz
• Advanced theory
• Understanding of musical styles
• Marketing and promotion
• Composition

Attendance at a Welcome Event and at Taster days is required as well as a good reference

This qualification helps you to progress on to the following; - BA/BSc/BMus at a Higher Education institution or Popular Music Conservatoire, e.g. ICMP - Apprenticeships in the wider commercial/creative industries, supported by Cambridge Regional College.                       - Employment. Most performers are self-employed by nature and success is reliant on individual performance skills

You will need 4 GCSEs at grades 9 - 4 (A* - C) including English or Maths, or successful competition of the Level 2 UAL Diploma in Music Performance and Production, or Level 2 BTEC Certificate/Extended Certificate or First Diploma in Music GCSEs in English language, Maths & Music at grade 4 (C) or above are highly desirable. You might wish to take the opportunity to demonstrate your performance or production skills in the welcome event.

Course work is continually assessed by a range of methods which may include projects, assignments, case studies, course work, self-assessment, feedback from clients, performances and panel reviews. Grades from Pass, Merit, Distinction may be awarded to course work.   There is regular one to one tutorial provision.

You can apply through our online application, just click on Apply.

Students who attend a Cambridge Area Partnership school should apply through the CAP application system, MyChoice@16, your school will be able to help you with this.

If you need any help with applying, please contact our Admissions Office on tel. 01223 418448 or .

Once we have received your application, you will be invited to a Welcome Event and for a guidance discussion. Through the Welcome Event you will get the chance to learn more about college and your course. When you have your conditional offer, you will be invited and required to attend new student Taster Days during the summer before the start of your course. Take control of your future and enrol on a course with CRC. Whether you've just finished your GCSEs or A Levels, already working or unemployed we can help you succeed.

Take control of your future and enrol on a course with CRC. Whether you've just finished your GCSEs or A Levels, already working or unemployed we can help you succeed.