Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop control over instrument
- Maintain and care for instrument
- Use appropriate methods to care for, move, use and store the instrument securely
- Set up and/or warm up the instrument in preparation for practice and performance
- Use instrumental accessories, fittings, maintenance and cleaning products to care for the instrument and enhance performance outcomes
- Tune the instrument appropriately to the required standard and tuning conventions
- Use practice time to develop technique
- In consultation with appropriate personnel, plan practice sessions and strategies aimed at developing techniques and overcoming technical challenges
- Exploit the physical relationship between instrument and player to perform a range of techniques and to develop musical expression
- Systemically practise pieces using exercises that develop technical fluency in identified areas of weakness
- Plan repertoire to advance performance skills
- Use good posture and appropriate finger, hand and/or body positions to maintain technical facility and healthy performance habits
- Seek feedback on own skill development from appropriate personnel and adjust focus of practice sessions as required
- Perform pieces from a range of repertoire
- Use activities and physical exercises to perform pieces from a range of repertoire in the selected style of music
- Listen to the work of professional musicians to determine goals and evaluate own performance against those goals
- Seek and use advice on skill development in own performance
- Play pieces and/or accompaniments with rhythmic precision, attention to dynamic range, and variations in technique as required
- Perform all work following agreed tempi and musical markings where relevant
- Use technical facility to achieve sound control, accurate intonation, and variations in sound and tone as appropriate