Music

Students

Ideal if: you’re open-minded, creative and would like to explore and develop your music/music technology skills in a variety of styles and settings.

You’ll learn: music creation techniques and processes, which career opportunities within the music industry would suit your own professional development, and how to produce a portfolio that helps you to get there. You’ll also learn a range of practical skills, which may include music performance, music production and/or sound engineering.

Expect: a practical qualification designed to give you the self-promotion skills and final portfolio you’ll need to progress to employment, an apprenticeship or further study.

You’ll love: our state-of-the-art music facilities and resources, live performance opportunities and events, live assignment briefs and the College’s close links with artists and industry professionals.

This course focuses on the rapid development of the field of music, with project options where you can choose a music and/or music technology focus.

You may study:

• exploring music
• professional development
• self-promotion in the music industry
• creating music
• music performance
• music production
• sound engineering
• music project

You’ll learn how to put on and run music projects from a performance and/or technical perspective, how to create music of varying styles, how to develop your own musical skills, how to sell yourself and your music and why and how music works. a practical qualification designed to give you the self-promotion skills and final portfolio you’ll need to progress to employment, an apprenticeship or further study.

Gloucestershire College has excellent facilities and specialised staff with industry experience. You will enjoy live assignment briefs and the chance to take part in real music projects and commissions, using a wide range of professional software and kit. The College has close links with artists and industry as well as fantastic kit/resources.

Your annual income would vary according to how successful you were and how much work you could get. See the Musicians' Union and the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) websites for recommended rates of pay for session musicians and live performers. There are 102,220 people working in the music industry, of which 50,780 work in live performance 21,930 in production, retail and distribution of musical instrument/audio equipment 15,130 in retail and distribution of recordings 10,190 in recording 2,890 in composition of musical works and music publishing 1,300 in promotion, management and agency related activities