| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Music Director |
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
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- Collaborate with music librarians to ensure availability of scores.
- Plan and schedule rehearsals and performances, and arrange details such as locations, accompanists, and instrumentalists.
- Use computers and synthesizers to compose, orchestrate, and arrange music.
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| Musician |
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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- Practice singing exercises and study with vocal coaches, in order to develop their voices and skills and to rehearse for upcoming roles.
- Perform before live audiences, or in television, radio, or movie productions.
- Specialize in playing a specific family of instruments and/or a particular type of music.
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| Sound Engineer |
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
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- Record speech, music, and other sounds on recording media, using recording equipment.
- Separate instruments, vocals, and other sounds, and combine sounds later during the mixing or postproduction stage.
- Synchronize and equalize prerecorded dialogue, music, and sound effects with visual action of motion pictures or television productions, using control consoles.
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