Program Overview

Music Performance

Creative Industries Futures - Guitar | Bass | Drums | Keyboard | Vocals

Overview

The Musician study-route provides its students with the skills and experience necessary to become a world-class musician of both stage and studio. Choose a primary study instrument (Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keys, or Vocals) and master it.

Become sensai of that discipline, a virtuoso soloist, an ensemble expert, a professional session musician, gather some skills in songwriting and audio production, and learn about how the music and creative industries work.

Specialisms

We offer five distinct specialisms as part of the BA (Hons) Games Development and Futures course. We have created specific educational content designed to prepare you for a career in your chosen field while equipping you with an intimate understanding of the greater creative industries.

Course Options

Our Music Performance pathway is offered through our Creative Industries Futures course, available as a BA / BSC (Hons) Degree, with optional Foundation Year or as an integrated MCCI Masters Degree.

Modules & Skills Units

Modules and Skills Units studied as part of this course (indicative list) include:

• Creative Practice 2: Introduction To Stagecraft, Performance & Collaboration
• Creative Practice 1: Introduction To Instrumental Development
• Academic Practice & Effective Communication
• Creative Project Management
• Preparing for Collaborative Work
• Applied Theory, Aural Skills & Critical Listening
• Music, Media and Technology
• Music & the Creative Industries
• Technical Development
• Ensemble Skills
• The impact and influence of music: from creator to consumer
• DAW Composition & Arrangement
• Music, society, and Culture: Perspectives and Debates
• Engaging in Collaborative Work
• Research Skills
• Specialist Collaborative Work
• Specialist Route Skills
• Professional Collaborative Work
• Professional Route Skills
• Arrangement & Advanced Music Literacy
• Improvisation
• Session Styles
• Second Instrument
• Technical Development (2)
• Pedagogy and Training
• Leadership and CPD
• Critical Review
• Leading Professional Collaborative Project
• Independent Portfolio
• Freelance Musician
• Studio Musician Practices
• Music Analysis & advanced theory
• Advanced Ensemble and Musical Direction Skills
• Technical Development 3
• Making Connections and Building a Community
• Professional Practice Frameworks
• Applied Research (Focus and Impact on Creative Industries Futures)
• Ideas into Action
• Specialist Entry Portfolio

Course Details

Award

BA / BSc (Hons) Creative Industries Futures MCCI Creative Industries Futures

Modes of Study

Full time Accelerated Blended Integrated

Campus Delivery

Birmingham Guildford London Remote

Duration

Degree 2 Year accelerated delivery 3 Year accelerated delivery including Foundation Year 3 Year traditional delivery Integrated Masters 3 Year accelerated delivery including postgraduate year

FHEQ Credits

Degree 360 Integrated Masters 540

UCAS Institution Code

Institution A48

Entry Requirements

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• All candidates will be required to attend an audition / interview.
• All candidates should hold at least 2 A-Levels (or an equivalent Level 3 qualification), possessing a minimum of 104 UCAS points.
• We normally require Grade C/4 GCSE (or an equivalent qualification) in English.
• Candidates should be capable of using the English language fluently, and able to structure arguments and present evidence to a standard appropriate to study at Level ‘4’.
• Where the application materials appear insufficient to form a clear judgement on the candidate’s fluency, additional documentary evidence (e.g. recent essays) will be called for.
• Applicants for whom English is a second language are required to have achieved IELTS level 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each component) or equivalent qualification.

Fees

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Audition Guide

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Additional Information

• Did you know you can do a three-year degree in just two years? … Ask about ACM’s two-year accelerated undergraduate programme.
• Did you know that at ACM you can apply to do a Masters in just 3 years as an option for all our creative industries courses? Read more
• Did you know outside of learning discipline-specific skills, students most want to practice, connect and collaborate and perform.
• Did you know just ahead of you in London we are preparing our new flagship campus, and it will have more studios, more production rooms and more space to create and collaborate than in any other comparable institution anywhere in London? Read more