If you live and breathe music, this is the course for you. Studying this qualification will provide you with the foundations for starting your career within the music industry. The course will encourage you to build skills, essential to the current music industry including Performance Studies, Songwriting, Recording and Live Sound and Music Business. As you work with our industry professional teaching staff to develop your creative and performance skills, you will gain an insight into the range of career paths available. What will I study? The UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Music is equivalent to three A-Levels and suitable for progression onto Higher Education. Our industry-based projects have been designed to replicate real world scenarios while providing the safety of a college environment. Our projects will allow you to focus development on practical skills as well as theoretical skills in Music Theory. During your studies, you will also develop your interpersonal, critical and decision-making abilities, which will serve you well in future life. What will I be doing? This is a highly practical course on which you will learn the skills needed to thrive in the ever-changing modern music industry. As part of our study programme, you will develop your performance skills on your chosen instrument (or voice), further your songwriting skills and learn about the technology of both live sound and studio recording. You will study a number of musical genres and be encouraged to develop your own style of performance, through regular formal and informal performance opportunities throughout the year. We encourage our musicians to broaden their musical taste, allowing them to gain practical experience of new styles of performance alongside those areas which interest them most. Students will be able to express their creative flair and will gain a clear insight and understanding into how the music world works. This will prepare them for a career within the music industry. Our project-based learning approach enables you to develop your music skills through workshops and projects. You will work alongside students of other disciplines, and external industry professionals to put on performances (across a range of styles) during the teaching year. You will also benefit from masterclasses, workshops and visits from external professionals. There will be a number of opportunities for you to complete work experience both in college (in response to ‘live briefs’ from the industry) and outside of college, at venues and events across Liverpool and beyond. Are there any extra-curricular activities? We offer a range of enrichment opportunities to complement your Music studies, which, in previous years, have included a choir, a battle of the bands, the Soundcheck Sessions (our regular lunchtime performance sessions), an events management group and vocal group. Our students also regularly undertake trips to venues, performances and networking opportunities, such as the British Music Experience and Off The Record in Manchester.
We require a predicted minimum of five GCSEs at grade 9-4/ A*-C, ideally including Maths and English. If you enrol with us and you haven't got a grade 4/C or above in Maths and/or English, we will support you to retake these subjects as part of your study programme. However, as retaking these GCSEs will be an additional demand on your time, it is in your interest to work to pass them the first time round. All students, regardless of GCSE attainment, will be expected to make further progress in their communication and mathematical skills. Opportunities to do this will be embedded in course assignment tasks, as well as in work experience and other activities.
About Education Provider
| Region | North West |
| Local Authority | Liverpool |
| Ofsted Rating | Outstanding |
| Gender Type | Mixed |
| Address | 41 Upper Duke Street, Liverpool, L1 9DY |
If you live and breathe music, this is the course for you. Studying this qualification will provide you with the foundations for starting your career within the music industry. The course will encourage you to build skills, essential to the current music industry including Performance Studies, Songwriting, Recording and Live Sound and Music Business. As you work with our industry professional teaching staff to develop your creative and performance skills, you will gain an insight into the range of career paths available. What will I study? The UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Music is equivalent to three A-Levels and suitable for progression onto Higher Education. Our industry-based projects have been designed to replicate real world scenarios while providing the safety of a college environment. Our projects will allow you to focus development on practical skills as well as theoretical skills in Music Theory. During your studies, you will also develop your interpersonal, critical and decision-making abilities, which will serve you well in future life. What will I be doing? This is a highly practical course on which you will learn the skills needed to thrive in the ever-changing modern music industry. As part of our study programme, you will develop your performance skills on your chosen instrument (or voice), further your songwriting skills and learn about the technology of both live sound and studio recording. You will study a number of musical genres and be encouraged to develop your own style of performance, through regular formal and informal performance opportunities throughout the year. We encourage our musicians to broaden their musical taste, allowing them to gain practical experience of new styles of performance alongside those areas which interest them most. Students will be able to express their creative flair and will gain a clear insight and understanding into how the music world works. This will prepare them for a career within the music industry. Our project-based learning approach enables you to develop your music skills through workshops and projects. You will work alongside students of other disciplines, and external industry professionals to put on performances (across a range of styles) during the teaching year. You will also benefit from masterclasses, workshops and visits from external professionals. There will be a number of opportunities for you to complete work experience both in college (in response to ‘live briefs’ from the industry) and outside of college, at venues and events across Liverpool and beyond. Are there any extra-curricular activities? We offer a range of enrichment opportunities to complement your Music studies, which, in previous years, have included a choir, a battle of the bands, the Soundcheck Sessions (our regular lunchtime performance sessions), an events management group and vocal group. Our students also regularly undertake trips to venues, performances and networking opportunities, such as the British Music Experience and Off The Record in Manchester.
We require a predicted minimum of five GCSEs at grade 9-4/ A*-C, ideally including Maths and English. If you enrol with us and you haven't got a grade 4/C or above in Maths and/or English, we will support you to retake these subjects as part of your study programme. However, as retaking these GCSEs will be an additional demand on your time, it is in your interest to work to pass them the first time round. All students, regardless of GCSE attainment, will be expected to make further progress in their communication and mathematical skills. Opportunities to do this will be embedded in course assignment tasks, as well as in work experience and other activities.
