Vocal Artist Level 3

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This course enables you to build your vocal and performance skills, confidence and experience, and helps establish your artistic identity whilst developing your music career. Our well-resourced facilities are designed to help you develop in a range of practical and technical areas, giving you a learning experience that prepares you for industry, university, and beyond.

• Work with your fellow vocalists to refine your abilities and gain experience on stage.
• Engage with a range of performance opportunities, with coaching from our specialist staff to develop your set list and stagecraft, allowing you to take your skills towards a professional level.
• Explore the skills and knowledge applicable to all working musicians: technical skills such as composition and arrangement to help turn your ideas into music.
• Build an understanding of music theory and lyricism, strengthened by the exploration of key musical elements and critical analysis of styles, focusing on the music you love.
• Develop employability skills through our industry lessons, helping you to develop your understanding of how to sustain a successful career as a musician.
• Learn business, organisational and collaborative skills that will enable you to forge a path in the creative industries.
• Respond to creative briefs, experience working with or for clients under pressure, and push the boundaries of your practical musical skill sets, performing as a lead singer and to camera as part of a music video shoot, equipping you with the skills required to become a vocal artist.
• Build your academic skills, such as research techniques and critical thinking, affording you the option of studying at a university level in the future.

On the Vocal Artist course, you will have access to our rehearsal spaces and equipment, including microphones and PA systems. You will also have access to technical spaces such as studios and tech suites, which can be used to compose, practise, record and film your music. You will be expected to practise your vocal technique and engage with the various performance opportunities throughout the year to put your skills and knowledge to the test and develop your confidence, delivery and experience. A bespoke self-directed programme coaches you to become a more confident and controlled vocalist and songwriter. You are aiming to become a working creative whilst with us, so use your time, facilities and resources well!

This course is internally assessed, meaning your teachers deliver and grade all of your coursework. Each year is made up of carefully scheduled projects, which can involve both individual and group work and are a balance of practical work, like performances, lyrics writing, compositions, and music videos, alongside written/visual reports and presentations.

4 GCSEs at 4-9 (C-A*) including English.

Choosing the Vocal Artist Level 3 course will give you the skills to go on to university or into creative work.

The creative sector is one of the fastest growing areas of the UK economy and a great and exciting place in which to work.

This Vocal Artist course can lead onto:

• A creative degree at university where you can gain further skills in preparation for work. This may be a music degree or another subject which takes your fancy. You will need to complete both years of the course in order to generate the UCAS points for university entry. Access Creative College has two new music foundation degrees which offer perfect progression.
• Our one-year Artist Development course where you can take your music to the next level in preparation for professional work.
• Employment, or self-employment, in the creative industries. This may be as a singer, music artist, or it may be into another area of the music or creative industries.
• A creative apprenticeship as a stepping stone to work.