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| image from https://www.timeout.com/news/face-masks-just-became-the-hottest-music-merch-of-2020 Our Music courses normally involve group rehearsals, singing and sharing of music equipment, all of which are now coming under restrictions due to COVID. Some changes will be necessary but we are doing our best to ensure all students can continue to study their courses with minimal disruption. The following guide explains how Music lessons will be taught under revised health and safety guidelines. We kindly ask Music students to respect and co-operate with these 8 areas of guidelines to reduce risks to all students and staff. 1. CLASSROOM LESSONS Lessons will still be held in class, although some teachers in the college may be teaching online from home, just as some students may be learning from home due to health reasons, shielding a family member or isolating with the virus. Important lesson resources will also be shared online, so students should check Moodle regularly. During class lessons, it will be necessary to keep to a fixed seating plan to minimise possible contamination of computers. At least one classroom window should be open in each room during the day to ventilate the space. Students should use the hand sanitiser in corridors on the way to and from lessons. Students may wear masks or other PPE if they choose to. 2. CLASSROOM EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS All classroom equipment, including computer keyboards and mice, guitars and instruments, should be wiped before and after use. Teachers will supply wipes. The microphones will be regularly sterilised but should also be externally wiped. As usual, equipment such as microphones, cables and headphones must be signed out, treated carefully and returned before the end of the lesson. No equipment, including instruments or computers, should be shared until it has been cleaned first. Students should bring their own pens and stationery equipment to lessons. Technology students should bring their own headphones. Any music books that are used should be left to one side and pointed out to the lecturer at the end of the lesson. Pages can be photocopied to prevent regular use of the same book. 3. RECORDING AND LIVE SOUND DESKS This equipment should be very carefully and gently wiped before and after use, since over-cleaning may damage the equipment. It is also possible to operate this equipment from phones and tablets via virtual controller apps, which can limit the risk of contamination due to handling. PRESONUS StudioLive 32 U.C. Surface Controller App Android - Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.presonus.ucremote iPAD - Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/presonus-uc-surface/id909365316 PRESONUS StudioLive 32 QMIx-U.C. Controller App Android - Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.presonus.qmix iPhone - Apple Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/presonus-qmix-uc/id703208043 4. REHEARSAL ROOMS & GROUPS The small rehearsal rooms (214 - Drum room, 215 - Piano room, 217 - Mixing room) will now have a limit of one music student only. As always, these rooms are off-limits to non-Music students and any student inviting guests to these rooms will lose the privilege of using the room. The larger rehearsal room, 213, can accommodate a group of up to five students working at a 2 metre distance. To facilitate social distancing, full groups could work as pairs instead, such as:
Singers could work with backing tracks and guitarists with loop pedals. With smaller groups, songs could be creatively re-interpreted to 'unplugged' or stripped-back arrangements. 5. SINGING Singing is an activity with a higher risk of infection spread, so groups of two or more singers should either stand back-to-back or side-to-side in a line, at a sensible distance from each other. The room must also be well-ventilated with at least one open window. 6. LIVE EVENTS & LIVE SOUND ENGINEERS Live gigs can be given online or to camera with virtual audiences. Live sound engineers can work in small teams with a small number of performers. Shows can be edited to professional standards using free Open Broadcaster software, such as https://obsproject.com 7. RECORDING AND MIXING AT HOME Technology (and interested Performance students) should take advantage of the free recording and mixing software available for use on computers and phones: |
8. COVID SYMPTOMS
Any student who becomes unwell with symptoms of COVID-19 whilst onsite must inform their tutor and/or lecturer then go home immediately and be advised to follow the Government COVID-19: guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection guidance
Any student who becomes unwell with symptoms of COVID-19 whilst onsite must inform their tutor and/or lecturer then go home immediately and be advised to follow the Government COVID-19: guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection guidance
If you are unable to go home immediately, you should ask to be escorted to an on-site isolation room to wait.
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