Music Technology study guides

An overview of the music technology skills topic in SQA Higher Music Technology: capturing audio, using hardware and software to manipulate it, processing, applying effects, and mixing and sequencing, the practical skills assessed by the assignment and tested by the question paper.

An overview of the 20th and 21st century music topic in SQA Higher Music Technology: explaining how technological developments relate to the music, recognising genres and styles by ear, and identifying music concepts, the knowledge tested by the question paper's listening questions.

An overview of the SQA Higher Music Technology assignment: the 80-mark coursework in which you produce audio by applying the course skills, the music technology contexts that frame it, the journal of progress and reflection, and how the assignment sits alongside the question paper.