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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE
Thursday 23 May 2024
Morning (Time: 1 hour 45 minutesplus 10 Paper
minutes setting up time) reference 8MT0/41 🞍 🞍
Music Technology
Advanced Subsidiary
COMPONENT 4: Producing and Analysing
You must have: Figure 1 for Question 6 (enclosed), 2024 Pearson Total Marks
audio/MIDI files, headphones or monitor speakers, digital audio
workstation (DAW) and MIDI keyboard.
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE Music Technology Advanced Subsidiary COMPONENT 4: Producing and Analysing QP MAY 2024
•Setting up time
Open a new project in your DAW using 16 bit/44.1kHz sample rate.
• Save the project as ‘comp4_your candidate number’ (e.g. comp4_1234) in the folder designated
by your centre.
• Set the‘drums.wav’
Import metronometoto 75 bpm.
a new track in your DAW, aligned with the beginning of bar 1.
• Ensure that the drums are audible and begin at beat 1 of bar 2. Ensure the drums play in time with
• the metronome during the first 4 bars.
You must not open the paper until instructed to do so by the invigilator.
Instructions
•••
Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, centre number and candidate number.
••
Answer all questions.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
Save your
– there mayaudio filesspace
for Questions 1, 2, 4 and 5 within the 1 hour 45 minutes examination time.
••
be more than you need.
You must ensure that the left and right earpieces of your headphones are worn correctly.
•Information
Access to a calculator or calculator software is not permitted.
Access to the internet or local network is not permitted.
•• The total mark for this paper is 84.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
•
Advice
••
Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
Try to answer every question.
Check your answers if you have time at the end. Turn over
, SECTION A
Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you change your mind about an
answer, put a line through the box and then mark your new answer with a cross .
Question 1 is about the drums.
1 (a) (i) Identify the percussion instrument playing in the drum part that is not from astandard
drum kit.
(1)
A Cabasa
B Clave
C Cowbell
D Tambourine
(ii) Give one reason why the drums are not hard quantised.
(1)
(ii) Repair the section of drums with timing errors.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
• Copy suitable sections of bars 7 and 8 to recreate bar 9 with the correcttiming
and drum pattern.
• Ensure no crash cymbal is audible.
(4)
Bounce/export the completed drum part as a single 16 bit/44.1 kHz stereo
.wav file to the designated folder on your computer.
Name it ‘q1_ your candidate number’ (e.g. q1_1234).
(Total for Question 1 = 9 marks)
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