This is a more detailed and student-friendly revision guide for the Level 2 NCFE Music Technology course. Full of clear and colourful diagrams & explanations, it will help students prepare for the written exam. Table of contents: The DAW 2 Signal Flow 3 MIDI Controllers 4 Audio tracks VS software instruments 5 Synthesisers VS Samplers 5 Effects (FX) 6 Hardware 7 Audio Interface 7 Styles of music 8 Chords & Melody 9 Song Structure 10 Recording 11 Recording techniques 12 Accessories for mic’ing vocals 12 Mic’ing the drum kit 12 Monitoring 13 Types of audio tracks 13 Health & Safety 14 Sound Creation 15 Listening Questions 16 Exam Advice 16

Music Tech Maths - Preparing for Numeracy Questions in Music Technology Edexcel A level. This detailed resource includes: -6 sets of practice questions -6 sets of worked answers In total 66 questions. All with worked answers. **-A 50 slide Powerpoint presentation The 6 sets of 11 practice questions are designed to build students skills and confidence. They are carefully designed to increase confidence with the concepts that students need to understand for the exam. They are all possible without a calculator, just as required in the exam. **The Powerpoint covers the following topics: ** • Synthesis of waves from sine waves • Number of semitones in intervals • Cents in a semitone • Intervals – Frequency relationships • Low Frequency Oscillators • Binary questions • MIDI Questions – Bit depth (velocity etc) • MIDI Questions – Bit depth (pitch bend) • Low Frequency Oscillator Graph • Compressor input / output • Envelope graph • Gate graph • Compressor response time • Microphone Technical Specifications • Beats per minute (milliseconds per beat) • Logarithmic scale – Decibels • Logarithmic scale – EQ • Signal to Noise ratio • Label graphs (axes and more) • Equalisation graph • Cut off Frequency • Amplitude Envelope • Filter Envelope • Label axes – audio waveform • Low Frequency Oscillator Graph • Nyquist’s Theory • The Nyquist Frequency • Compression ratios • Reverb Time • Phase relationship of waves • Sample rate calculations • Note values – dotted notes • Note values – triplets • Octave settings in feet on synths The Powerpoint is as an aide memoire to help students answer the sets of Music Tech numeracy practice questions supplied. These, in turn should help with the exam questions when it comes to them. The Powerpoint is not intended to be a comprehensive explanation of all the given topics, which would be impossible in 50 slides, but it is a reminder of important numeracy concepts.

Music Technology Escape Room Knowledge Escape Room Quiz - End of term fun for the whole class. No printing required! Just project the Powerpoint and off you go. Built in timers, Video clips and answer reveals after every slide. This is an educational fun immersive ‘Bank Heist themed Escape room’ experience. Have the students compete individually, in teams or as a whole class the choice is yours! This resource is a great team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days (or week) leading up to the end of term. There are seven different challenging puzzles and you have the choice of setting the timer at easy, medium or high difficult level for each escape. Students will complete a variety of tasks using different skills including: problem-solving, critical thinking, reading comprehension, literacy challenges and some clever deduction. The puzzles, bonus questions and challenges are a fun way to assess a topic or subject area. This resource covers a variety of different elements including: vocabulary, key terms. key themes, general subject knowledge, literacy and much more… Music Technology Escape Quiz Escape Room is fully editable and takes less than 1 Minute to set up. Music Technology Escape Quiz Bank Heist Escape Room Contents ☞ Interactive 26 slide Powerpoint Escape Room Challenge ☞ Optional Escape Certificates ☞ Optional Team Sheet (Print it or use scrap paper instead) Common FAQ’s ★Group sizes: 1-30 students per team - (Participants up to 180) ★Time: Approximately 50-60 minutes (Provide hints along the way if time is a factor!) ★Materials: Aside from Powerpoint - all students need is a pen / pencil. How to run this escape challenge This escape room can be done without any printing we have however still included a team sheet (Slide 2) should you wish to use it, if not plain paper will more than suffice. The escape room is story driven by a YouTube video which is split into 9 sections. Introduction - Puzzle 1 – Puzzle 2 - Puzzle 3 – Puzzle 4 – Puzzle 5 – Puzzle 6 – Puzzle 7 - Success At various points you will be instructed to pause the video at these points you can go to the next slide in the presentation. Each video section (excluding Introduction and Success) will be followed by a puzzle. Every puzzle has three built in timers in the lower right hand corner to put the teams on a time limit of your choice if you so wish. Once the timer has expired or everyone has completed the puzzle teams can check their answers on the next slide using the CLICK TO REVEAL boxes. Once all answers for the current puzzle have been revealed move on to the next video section and subsequent puzzle until all 7 puzzles have been completed and everyone has escaped successfully (Optional) Give out winning certificates to the highest scorers.

These are booklets for students who are due to start the NCFE Music Technology course. They coincide with the units of work they complete during the lessons. Includes: 2 x homework booklets with potentially 6 weeks worth of tasks in each

Music Technology - Music Escape Room for a class. This is a print and play digital escape room. Every student loves to solve a mystery. This brand new escape room activity will not only improve students knowledge of the Music Technology but will hone their problem solving skills, build up their teamwork and leadership skills and allow opportunities to show creativity and resilience. ** Escape Room Contents** ☞Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display ☞ Escape Room Keys (Six Sets for up to Six Teams) ☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles) ☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - We do the hard work for you! ☞ Teacher instructions to run the escape ☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape for any quick finishing teams :) ☞ The 7 Rooms each have subject specific Puzzles that have been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and are suitable for a variety of students. Each Escape Puzzle is designed by our amazing subject specialist! ☞ Optional Escape Room Script you can use! ☞ Professionally made optional Video to introduce the Escape Room Plot - With Voice overs and alternate endings. ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ As well as solving 7 different subject themed puzzles they will have to answer a series of bonus questions (12 in total) testing their subject knowledge to the max! As students complete each puzzle they will be one step closer to solving the mystery. Teams must be careful as they are racing against up to 5 or 10 other teams via an interactive PowerPoint displayed on the board to see who will escape first!! This Escape Room is a great way to have an education treat lesson for your students and make learning new topics / or consolidating old ones fun! The Escape Room is fully editable so you can chose to adapt the vocabulary and questions if you wanted. Search ‘Cre8tive Resources’ for support with our library of resources or send us an email. Leave a review and email TheCre8tiveResources@gmail.com for a free resource as a thank you!! Explore all our resources on TES

This is a PowerPoint to help teach monitors to A Level Music Technology. It includes Examples of brands/models How they work Positioning Practical DAW task Could also be used for BTEC Music Pracitce

PLEASE NOTE: THIS WAS WRITTEN FOR THE LEGACY (2008) SPECIFICATION, BUT IS STILL OF MUCH VALUE FOR THE NEW SPECIFICATION. IT WILL BE UPDATED SOON PRIOR TO THE 2022-23 ACADEMIC YEAR. Written by an experienced teacher and sixth form head of department, this workbook and set of board resources is designed to help students in their Edexcel AS studies and in their transition to A2. It contains a simple introduction across all technical aspects of Music Technology, along with key word exercises to reinforce terminology and where appropriate, pieces of equipment to label and discuss. Examples of appropriate listening are included with necessary topics. The ‘board-friendly’ resources organised as full screen PDFs to retain fonts and formatting which introduce and reinforce the workbook content. Introduction to Sound What is sound? What is the impact of frequency and amplitude? How does this relate to phase, harmonics and wave cycles? Microphones What are the different types of microphones? What properties are important when choosing a mic, and how do they pick up sound? Synthesisers What do the different parts of synthesiser do? What types of synthesiser exist and what are they used for? What are envelopes and LFOs? Dynamics Range Processing How do compressors and noise gates control the volume of sounds? What are limiters, and what creative things can we do with dynamics? EQ and Filtering What is an EQ? How is EQ applied and how do we use filters correctively and for creative effects? What do filter graphs look like? Reverb How was reverb created? What is it? How do we generate reverb now, and what parameters can we change? Samplers What is sampling and what is a sampler? How can they be used? How can samples be manipulated and what must we bear in mind? Delay Effects What does a delay do? How was delay created historically? What parameters might we see on a delay? What different types are they? Modulation Effects What is modulation and how are LFOs used to create it? What effects are created with modulation and what do they sound like? Distortion Effects What are the different types of distortion? How is it created? What functions / parameters might you see on a distortion effect? Creative Effects What other effects can be used creatively in Music Technology? What do they sound like? How are the parameters changed? MIDI What is MIDI? What impact did it have on Music Technology? What are MIDI controllers and how can we use them to create musical work?

A pack containing four questions to help students apply their practical knowledge to theoretical concepts. Questions, indicative content model answers and PowerPoint slides are included for the following four topics: Drum Machines Compression Modulation Effects EQ Please note that the model answers are meant only to provide exemplar information; teachers should always apply their practical and theoretical music technology knowledge in their assessment and for mark allocations.

Presentation tracking basic developments in Music Tech.

Great to leave for a supervision - students are researching to find what type of piece of music technology was invented in that year and the use of the item. Students then complete a writing task using that knowledge to help them think of what technology has most appealed to them.

Performance Techniques, Articulation, Technology Questions For GCSE Music, there are many terms that students need to know, and be able to identify aurally, but which aren’t regularly covered by many of the styles of music studied. This revision resource brings together many of the key musical terms from three areas of GCSE Music: Performance Techniques (eg pizzicato, arco, distortion, glissando) Articulation (eg staccato, legato) Technology (eg reverb, panning, sample) There are 17 questions, totalling 50 marks. The assessment comes with a link to FREE audio, running for 37 minutes: perfect for a revision lesson, or as homework. The extracts are (almost!) all from Popular Music, and feature a range of music by Buddy Holly, Primus, Maria Muldaur, Extreme, Nitro, Queen and Bon Jovi, plus more. The bundle includes the full paper and mark scheme, plus the questions and mark scheme separately, in case you want to set it remotely. Please have a look at my shop for a wide variety of resources to support the GCSE course. www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/NPTJ NB This resource was originally written to support the Eduqas GCSE course, and is the same as the one with “Eduqas” in the title in the TES shop.

This is a great way to introduce pupils to Music Technology through a Soundscape task. Pupils can use the free software Soundtrap on their computers or laptops (and on phones if needed!). I use this task for S1 pupils (aged 12) but this could be used for pupils aged 10-14.

This is a chronological order of the most important microphones in history The list includes names, dates and a brief explanation of each microphone Ideal for A Level Music Technology students studying Edexcel Music Tech

This is a large list of effects and the definitions required to know for A level music technology. There 3 sides of A4 worth of effects, with subheadings which included variations. Ideal for revision or class quizzing

Powerpoint covering the features of Effects for Edexcel Music Technology A-Level Over 30 slides

Powerpoint covering the features of Synthesis for Edexcel Music Technology A-Level

Powerpoint covering the features of Sampling for Edexcel Music Technology A-Level

A graphical representation of different cables and connections useful for Music and Music Technology.

This is an assembly/ lesson exploring how music is supported by technology. It is perfect for national music day but also covers elements of music history, jobs in the music tech industry, listening to, commenting on and appreciating music. The PowerPoint then moves onto individual in class tasks for both KS1/KS2, each with extension tasks. Learning objectives: To understand how music makes us feel To learn how technology has impacted music To use technology to create our own music

This is my PowerPoint that walks learners through the third unit of the NCFE Music Technology course. I felt it helped having a count up on the lessons so the students knew how much time they had left.