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There has never been a better time to study at the College with our brand new Music and Sound facilities.

You have the full benefits of being in the region’s only Roland Music Academy and Apple and Ableton-certified training centres. You will have access to cutting-edge equipment housed in our four soundproofed rehearsal rooms, two dedicated Mac suites (with more than 45 Macs including MacBooks) PC suites and three state-of-the-art recording studios offering the very best and latest software and high end hardware from the likes of SSL, Universal Audio, Digidesign Pro Tools HD and LE, Neumann, AKG, TLA, Lexicon and Empirical Labs.

The Performing Musician Courses (levels 1 to 3) offer a hands-on approach to being a modern musician: you will learn band skills, instrumental skills, composition, business, musicianship and technology. You will be using equipment from Boss, Marshall, Line 6, Trace Elliot, Mapex, Roland (V Drums and more) and Shure.

The Sound courses (Levels 1 to 5) prepare you for a “behind the scenes” role in the music industry, producing the best possible sound for recordings and gigs.

You will master the art of modern computer production and learn valuable business skills that will serve you well in the music industry, whilst being trained to a professional standard to reproduce music, dialogue, sound effects and other audio content to the highest quality. The area prides itself on providing opportunities to gain extra skills relevant to increasing employability via its enrichment programme and cross-course links.

Recent visiting speakers include Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Grizzly Bear, Nick Cave), Paul Farrer (Composer for the Weakest Link and Dancing on Ice), Craig Blundell (Session Drummer for X Factor) , Steve Cheney (Stage Manager at Glastonbury Festival, Reading and Leeds), Rob Sparx (International Dubstep Producer) , Frank Bembini (Drummer for Fun Lovin Criminals) and Neil Ridley (A and R manager BMG records).