Workshop Description

Designed for post-primary school groups, Waltons New School of Music’s one-day Leaving Cert. Music Technology workshop covers all of the requirements of the Music Technology core activity at Higher Level (25% of total marks).

Through a combination of demonstrations and hands-on activities in our Music Technology Lab, students will learn all of the requirements for this activity, including:

• Stating the medium/system/software the student will use to input lines/parts/tracks and describing the edits he/she intends to make.
• Inputting, saving and retrieving a two-part score. For the exam, students will be asked to input all or part of each line/part/track, at the discretion of the examiner.
• Performing six edits. Edits should make musical sense.
• Producing a recorded or score version of the music. While the recording or score may be produced in advance on the day of the examination, the candidate will be required to demonstrate the procedure involved to the examiner.
• Playing two pieces from the standard electronic repertoire or compiling and playing to own backing track (at least 32 bars long).

Leaving Cert. Music Technology can take place either in the New School’s Music Technology Lab or in the students’ school. For workshops taking place in our Music Technology Lab, there is a maximum of sixteen students per workshop (two per workstation). The workshop is available by group enrolment only.

Workshop Details

• Day/Date By arrangement (please contact us)
• Duration 2.5 hours
• Location Music Technology Lab, Waltons New School of Music
• Class size 16 students maximum (plus teacher)
• Fee (Music Technology Lab) €180 • €162 (DEIS schools)
• Fee (Students’ School) €215 • €194 (DEIS schools)
• Fee Per Sstudent (16, Music Technology Lab) €11.25 • €10.13 (DEIS schools)
• Fee Per Student (16, Students’ School) €13.44 • €12.13 (DEIS schools)
• Equipment Provided PCs & sound cards • MuseScore notation software • Keyboards & other MIDI controllers
• Equipment Needed (Students’ School PCs & sound cards • MuseScore notation software • Ideally MIDI Keyboards

Colin Power

Colin has been an active professional musician, guitarist and audio engineer for the last fifteen years. His performance experience extends to theatrical productions, music festivals, radio performances and recording sessions. He has also produced audio and engineered recording sessions for a wide range of artists and projects. After receiving a Diploma in Multimedia Engineering from the Waterford College of Further Education and an Honours BA in Commercial Modern Music from the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM Dublin), Colin further validated his range of skills and competencies by completing an MPhil in Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College, Dublin, as well as a postgraduate Diploma in Arts in Educational Practice in Teaching for Further Education, with distinction, with the National College of Ireland. In addition to his teaching with the New School, he has taught guitar, ukulele and music technology to a wide range of students privately, in different music schools and for Music Generation.

Reviews • Testimonials

‘I feel much more comfortable doing music technology for the Leaving Cert. now, and the teaching was great.’
– E. Cooper

‘A great workshop and very helpful.’
– S. O’Connell

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