Elements and Performance Criteria
- Explore the range and scope of instrument or voice
- Maintain and care for instrument or voice
- Use personal practice time to extend technical skills
- Listen to own work to identify technical deficiencies, and monitor and adjust intonation, harmonies, sound colour and rhythm
- Plan and use personal practice time to achieve performance goals
- Play or sing a set of technical exercises and/or studies appropriate to the instrument or voice and selected repertoire as advised by teacher or mentor
- Practise and perform using correct posture and techniques to avoid injuries in line with health and safety principles
- Seek and integrate feedback from relevant people to guide practice
- Perform pieces
- Play or sing pieces and/or accompaniments from a range of repertoire, ensuring that technical requirements are met
- Perform all work following agreed tempi and musical markings where relevant
- Listen and adjust techniques to improve sound control and intonation, and to achieve variation in sound and tone
- Evaluate own performance