BTEC National Award in Music Performing

BTEC National Award in Music (Performing)
The course will develop your skills particularly in performance and its related activities. You will develop practice regimes and rehearsal techniques, as well as develop your listening and improvisation skills through workshops. There will be opportunity for you to have your work recorded (audio and video) so that you can develop further. A key element in the course is the commercial world of performing mounting performances, venues, finance, law and so forth.

Your career starts at Reigate where next?

What will I study on this course?

• Solo performance practice
• Ensemble work
• Listening skills
• Vocal techniques
• Improvisation and arranging
• Musical style and context through presentation and delivery
• Music promotion, distribution and the working life of the professional performer.

How is this course assessed?
The course is 100% assessment internally (moderated externally) of coursework: portfolios, journals, audio and video evidence, presentations, accounts, evaluations and so forth.

What kind of student will do well on this course?
You will do well on the course if you are:

• Creative
• Confident
• A natural performer perhaps already in a band
• Fascinated by the workings of the music world generally
• Self motivated
• A team player
• Keen to develop your instrumental or vocal skills to a high level

Exam Board & Specification:
The examination board for thisBTEC is EDEXCEL.