Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to perform backup accompaniment
- Confirm expected performance outcomes with relevant personnel
- Confirm own contribution, ensuring that the part is within own technical and artistic level of performance
- Use personal practice time before combined rehearsal period begins to achieve the required performance standard
- Take direction from and give support to performers during rehearsals
- Seek feedback on own performance from relevant personnel and adjust performance techniques
- Perform backup accompaniment
- Perform own part in line with agreed performance outcomes
- Ensure that own contribution enhances the performance and complements the inherent qualities of performers
- Maintain energy levels, concentration and focus throughout the performance
- Listen critically to own and others' performance and adjust playing to achieve the required sound
- Ensure that own conduct and appearance are appropriate to the performance context
- Adjust volume of playing consistently to the needs of performers and context of performance
- Take and give cues reliably, promptly, accurately and sensitively
- Contribute to maintaining a consistent balance between performers and backing
- Evaluate performance
- Contribute to evaluation of the performance of performers in a sensitive, constructive and unbiased way
- Evaluate own performance as a backup accompanist and note areas for future improvement
- Seek feedback on own performance from relevant personnel and incorporate suggestions into overall strategies for improving own backup accompaniment skills