Competences developed in the course

Transversal competences:

CT3: Solve problems and make decisions that respond to the objectives of the work being carried out.

CT6: Carry out self-criticism regarding one’s own professional and interpersonal practice.

CT13: Seek excellence and quality in professional activity.

CT17: Contribute through professional activity to raising social awareness of the importance of cultural heritage, its impact in different areas, and its capacity to generate significant values.

General competences:

CG1: Know the theoretical principles of music and have adequately developed skills for the recognition, understanding and memorisation of musical material.

CG2: Demonstrate appropriate skills for musical reading, improvisation, creation and recreation.

CG3: Correctly produce and interpret the graphic notation of musical texts.

CG4: Recognise musical materials through the development of auditory skills and know how to apply this ability to professional practice.

CG6: Master one or more musical instruments at an appropriate level for the main field of activity.

CG7: Demonstrate the ability to interact musically in different types of participatory musical projects.

CG8: Apply the most appropriate working methods to overcome challenges arising in personal study and collective musical practice.

CG9: Know the specific characteristics of the main instrument, in relation to its construction and acoustics, historical development and mutual influences with other disciplines.

CG11: Be familiar with a broad and updated repertoire, focused on the speciality but open to other traditions. Recognise the stylistic features that characterise this repertoire and be able to describe them clearly and comprehensively.

CG13: Know the foundations and structure of musical language and be able to apply them in interpretative, creative, research or pedagogical practice.

CG17: Be familiar with different musical styles and practices that allow understanding one’s own field of activity within a broader cultural context and enriching it.

CG21: Create and shape one’s own artistic concepts, having developed the ability to express oneself through them using acquired techniques and resources.

CG22: Possess broad and diverse musical resources in order to create or adapt musical pieces, as well as improvise in different contexts based on knowledge of various styles, formats, techniques, trends and languages.

CG23: Value musical creation as the action of giving sound form to a rich and complex structural thought.

Specific competences:

PE3: Know the constituent elements of music, demonstrating a high level of proficiency in aural perception, reading, analysis, writing, improvisation and musical creation, and be able to interrelate all these aspects in order to apply and use them appropriately in the development of one’s own activity.

PE4: Acquire technical mastery and expressive ability in the interpretation and conducting of vocal and instrumental ensembles, as a basis for improvisation, creation and experimentation with the instrument, voice and body in specific musical teaching/learning situations.

PE11: Know the foundations of musical acoustics, organology and their applications to musical practice.

Learning outcomes (general objectives)

1. Broaden the musical and professional horizon and complement one’s overall training through familiarisation with an instrument.
2. Develop versatility and the ability to adapt to different situations, as well as the capacity for lifelong self-learning.
3. Assimilate and practically apply all kinds of conceptual, theoretical and methodological elements specific to the music itself to the chosen instrument, and deepen knowledge of its specific interpretative elements.
4. Assume the role of soloist or accompanist within an instrumental formation and recognise its elements.
5. Understand the elements specific to rhythm-based instrumentation.
6. Acquire basic performance competences on rhythm-based instruments, as well as the ability to transfer them into appropriate conventional notation.
7. Select, create and lead original musical arrangements suited to the classroom context, identifying the needs of each moment in order to achieve an optimal sound result.
8. Be able to carry out transcriptions of musical fragments within a complex and real context, adapting them to the appropriate notation.

Contents

Practice of rhythm-based instruments within the field of modern and popular music (drums, electric bass, keyboard/piano, guitar and percussion). Musical reading and specific notation for each instrument. Transcription of drum patterns and bass lines. Instrumental techniques applied to the overall understanding of the specific musical field. Coordination and auditory control of collective performance and of one’s own part within the ensemble. Arrangements for a musical formation typical of a combo ensemble. Direction of a combo ensemble. Performance, coordination and auditory control of collective performance and of one’s own part within the ensemble. Specific repertoire. Collective, cooperative and collaborative work. Elements that enable and optimise communication through collective performance. Constructive and critical discussion on rehearsal techniques, applied methodologies and collective performance.

Teaching methodology

The teaching-learning methodology in individual lessons involves monitoring the student’s progress. Autonomous work involves the study and preparation of the works to be addressed in class. The teaching-learning methodology in semi-group lessons involves work mainly focused on musical practice, either collectively or individually. Autonomous work involves personal study and practice.

Assessment systems

The assessment system is based on continuous assessment, founded on a diagnostic evaluation and carried out through a summative evaluation that leads to the final grade. Continuous assessment is conducted through different assessment records derived from specific assessment activities, such as progress in class and the performance of auditions or concerts.