| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Sound Engineer |
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
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- Keep logs of recordings.
- Convert video and audio recordings into digital formats for editing or archiving.
- Mix and edit voices, music, and taped sound effects for live performances and for prerecorded events, using sound mixing boards.
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| Musician |
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
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- Perform before live audiences.
- Seek out and learn new music that is suitable for live performance and/or recording.
- Provide the musical background for live shows such as ballets, operas, musical theatre, and cabarets.
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| Music Director |
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
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- Transcribe musical compositions and melodic lines to adapt them to a particular group, or to create a particular musical style.
- Study films or scripts to determine how musical scores can be used to create desired effects or moods.
- Position members within groups to obtain balance among instrumental or vocal sections.
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