Preparing for AS Music Technology
Training
In Basingstoke
Description
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Type
Training
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Location
Basingstoke
Suitable for: Those who are teaching this specification for the first time. Those who are already delivering Music Technology and feel thay would benefit from. receiving new ideas, resources and lesson plans from vastley experienced teachers/examiners of the subject.
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Preparing for AS Music Technology
Teacher Training Course
Course Aims
Choice of equipment, software, recording venue(s), studio management and further technical issues
will also be covered along with current Health and Safety and recent Equal Opportunities Legistation.
Also covered will be the strong links to "pure"Music and where these strands exist and how they can be utilised and exploited to achieve the best possible creative results from students. To underpin these links, Examiner's Mark Schemes, Lesson Plans, exemplar material and example Schemes of Work
will be distributed and used as a basis for establishing the required standard expected at this level of study.
Programme:
- 9.30 - 10.45 Approaching Music Technology
- How Technology makes Music.
- A brief demonstration of an original Phonograph and Gramophone.
- The rationale of the syllabus.
- Overview of the course.
- How the course is structured.
- The practical aspects: recording options (standalone/PC/Mac), accommodation issues.
- Demonstration of Mac (Logic) and PC (Cubase).
- Writing your own course handbooks/on-line teaching.
10.45 - 11.00 - Coffee and cakes
11.00 - 12.30 The Listening Paper (6715)
- What is expected of the students?
- History of Recording - an overview.
- History of Pop and Jazz - an overview.
- Demonstration of vocal/instrumental effects and recording techniques and how they relate to the above.
- Demonstration of early studio tape recorder and tape echo machine.
- The importance of "referencing".
- Demonstration of Theremin.
- Formulating listening exercises.
(Example Scheme of Work and resources will be distributed)
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 2.45 Sequencing/Recording (6713)
- What is expected from the students?
- What (and why) is MIDI - a brief overview
- Demonstration of an early computer workstation creating music
- Which Pathway?
- Relevant software packages/hardware requirements
- Example of student's work (Sequencing and Recording)
- Use of controllers, editors etc. within specific programmes
- A demonstration of a studio multitrack tape recorder.
(Example Scheme of Work and resources will be distributed)
2.45 - 3.00 Tea and biscuits
3.00 - 4.15 Arranging (6714)
- What is expected of the students?
- What constitutes an "arrangement"?
- Basic techniques
- Example stimuli
- Examples of student's work
- Stereo "ambient" capture v multitrack recording
- Formulating your scores (with examples)
- Working within Sibelius/Cubase/Logic: how one can enhance the others.
(Example Scheme of Work and resources will be distributed)
Conclusion
- Joining the threads
- The relationship between Music and Technology
- Differentiation in Music Technology.
Preparing for AS Music Technology