Live Life Team
This tends to be one of the ‘love it’ or ‘hate it’ options. If you hate music you get to leave it behind as you go into year 10. However, for those who really enjoy music, you are going to find yourself surrounded by other like minded students.
The course is fantastic whether you play musical instruments and receive formal training or whether you just have a love of music and like trying out various instruments. It gives you the chance to really be creative. Many GCSE Music groups form small bands, playing as a group in assemblies. However, if this does not happen at your school you can always take the lead and suggest it. Showing such initiative will bode well for you.
You will look at various music types, from classical to modern, and have the chance to see how they are put together, both in terms of music structure and in terms of how the composer was trying to reach his audience. Budding composers get the chance to come up with compositions of their own, and at the end of the course you will be graded on a piece of coursework and an examination. Coursework is a favourite for lots of students who prefer it to the pressure of the exam hall, and you get a chance to spend a lot longer trying to perfect your work, especially if you want to submit a piece of music that you wrote.
