Headphone Selection Training

Course Description:

During this excellent Headphone Selection course Carmen Rizzo, an experienced recording artist, demonstrates the many varieties and styles of headphones. Headphone selection is incredibly important whether you are a professional musician, recording engineer or music enthusiast. Carmen Rizzo provides insightful information on the variety of headphones that are best suited for your unique application, lifestyle or budget. Carmen’s recommendations and experience will help you optimise your listening experience in personal entertainment, musical performance, or in studio recording.

Our learning material is available to students 24/7 anywhere in the world, so it’s extremely convenient. These intensive online courses are open to everyone, as long as you have an interest in the topic! We provide world-class learning led by IAP, so you can be assured that the material is high quality, accurate and up-to-date.

Meet the instructor:

Carmen Rizzo is a two-time Grammy nominated recording artist whose multi-faceted career includes producing, mixing, remixing, programming and co-writing with/for influential artists such as Seal, Coldplay, Alanis Morissette, Paul Oakenfold, BT, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cirque de Soleil and Pete Townsend. Carmen has also co-produced projects with such notable producers as Trevor Horn, Marius, David Foster, Rob Cavillo and Don Was. His current solo album “The Lost Art of the Idle Moment” is a lush beat-driven disc that features vocal collaboration with Esthero, Jem, Kate Havnevik, Ladybug Mecca and Grant Lee Phillips. He also co-founded Niyaz (Six Degrees), which is a world-beat and electric fusion musical project, with Azam Alit and Loga Ramin Trorkina. Other recent projects include composing his first film score and collaborating with Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart on a world-beat song for Greenpeace.

Course outline:

• Module 01: Headphone Selection

What are the requirements?

• You must be 16 or over
• You should have a basic understanding of English, Maths and ICT
• You will need a computer or tablet with internet connection (or access to one)

How will I be assessed?

• You will have one assignment. Pass mark is 65%.
• You will only need to pay £19 for assessment.
• You will receive the results within 72 hours of submittal, and will be sent a certificate in 7-14 days.

What Certification am I going to receive?

Those who successfully pass this course will be awarded a Guitar Set-Up and Maintenance certificate. Anyone eligible for certification will receive a free e-certificate, and printed certificate.

What careers can I get with this qualification?

This Guitar Set-Up and Maintenance course will qualify you to be a Music Producer. The average salary of a Music Producer in the UK is £29,479, and this will increase with experience. Upon successfully completing this course you could go on to become any of the following:

• Musician
• Music Teacher
• Music Producer
• Recording Engineer