Music Technology AS Level exam 20th May

Past Papers always help - Admittedly there are very few for the new spec, but I'm going through loads from the old spec, the general style of questions is the same. Oh, and know Reggae/Heavy Rock inside out, all institutions offering the course have been sent a list of what Edexcel considers 'key artists' within these genres. It is a good bet, I'm told, that one of the big questions will be focussed on one of these artists.

Anything else you'd like help with?

Don't have it on me now, but I'll grab a copy tomorrow and post it.

I believe the question will give you 3 of those artists and ask you to choose one and outline their contribution to heavy rock / reggae. So know most of the artists well enough to pin each of them to a couple of dates.

Is anyone taking this exam. How do you revise for it ? any tips.

Cheers.

Hey!

I am doing this exam as a retake. (I failed it last year cos I didnt revise at all)

Basically section A is about your knowledge of Music Technology based stuff. E.g. Effects, Microphones + Placement, history of Synthesisers, Organs and Guitars. etc
Section B is your Reggae/Hard Rock questions.

I have plenty of revision material for both sections that i'm willing to share with someone who is willing to discuss the exam and share knowledge. (p.s. its real good! and they aren't too lenghtly!)

I am pretty confident with the A2 exam, its more based on your knowledge of your own DAW and using it to create a song using the wav files they give you.

It wasn't too bad. Can't think of any paticularly difficult questions, but out of interest... What was the organ on the Bob Marley song?

i wrote that the organ was a hammond