Recorder – Pop Goes the Weasel 4 3 2 1 Playing • 100% tonguing • 1-2 tonguing • 3-5 tonguing • More than 5 Technique accuracy errors errors tonguing errors • Pads of fingers • Pads of fingers • Incorrect finger • Incorrect finger covering holes covering holes position position • Left hand on • Left hand on • Wrong hand on • Wrong hand on top top top top • Instrument held • Instrument held • Instrument held • Instrument held at 45 degree at 45 degree too close to greater than 45 from body from body body degree angle • Upright posture • Upright posture • Upright posture from body • Incorrect posture Tone • Plays each • 1-2 breathing • 3-5 breathing • More than 5 Quality phrase with one errors errors breathing errors breath • Steady warm air • Steady warm air • Overblown air • Steady warm air stream with no stream with stream stream with no overblowing slight • Squeaky tone overblowing • Clear centered overblowing • More than 5 • Clear centered rich tone • Thin tone intonation rich tone • 1-2 intonation • 3-5 intonation errors • 100% accurate errors errors intonation Rhythmic • Maintains • Maintains • Does not • Does not Accuracy steady tempo steady tempo at maintain a maintain steady throughout at less than 76 steady tempo tempo 76 – 100 beats beats per • 3-5 rhythmic • More than 5 per minute minute errors rhythmic errors • Plays all • 1-2 rhythm rhythms as errors written on page Melodic • Plays all pitches • 1-2 errors in • 3-5 errors in • More than 5 Accuracy as written on pitches and/or pitch and/or errors in pitch page with fingerings fingerings and/or correct fingerings fingerings

Barred Instruments – Wahlberg Piece 4 3 2 1 Playing • Mallets held • Mallets held • Mallets held • Mallets held Technique with a pinch with a pinch with a pinch incorrectly and wrap grip and wrap grip and wrap grip • Elbows are with palms with palms with palms hyper extended down down turned inward • More than 5 • Elbows relaxed • Elbows relaxed • Elbows are errors in and slightly and slightly hyper extended alternation of bent at the side bent at the side • Elbows are on mallets of the body of the body the knees • Heads of • Upright posture • Slouch posture • 3-5 errors in mallets strike • Alternating • 1-2 errors in alternation of and stick to the mallets (L-R-L-R) alternation of mallets bars (thunky • Heads of mallets • Heads of sound) or the mallets strike • Heads of mallets do not stick strikes the the center of mallets strike always strike bar the bars with a the center of the center of light bounce the bars with a the bars light bounce Rhythmic • Maintains • Maintains • Does not • Does not Accuracy steady tempo steady tempo at maintain a maintain steady throughout at less than 60 steady tempo tempo 60-70 beats per beats per • 3-5 rhythmic • More than 5 minute minute errors rhythmic errors • Plays all • 1-2 rhythm rhythms as errors written on page Melodic • Plays all pitches • 1-2 pitch errors • 3-5 pitch errors • More than 5 Accuracy as written on pitch errors page

Rhythmic Body Percussion Imitations 4 3 2 1 Rhythmic • Echoes all • 1-2 rhythmic • 3-5 rhythmic • More than 5 Accuracy rhythms as errors errors rhythmic errors printed in the • Performs • 1-2 body • More than 2 teacher script correct body percussion level body • Performs percussion as errors percussion level correct body printed in • Maintains a errors percussion as teacher script steady tempo • Does not printed in • Maintains a maintain steady teacher script steady tempo tempo • Maintains a steady tempo at 94-106 beats per minute

Rhythmic Body Percussion Improvisations (Q & A) 4 3 2 1 Rhythmic • Accurate • Accurate • Rhythmic • Rhythmic Accuracy phrasing with a phrasing with a answer does answer does cadence on cadence on not cadence on not cadence on beat 7 beat 7 beat 7 beat 7 • Answer relates • Answer does • Answer does • Imitates to the question not relate to the not relate to the question printed in the rhythmic rhythmic • Does not script (ie: question question maintain steady similar to the printed in the printed in the tempo scripted script script rhythms and/or • Maintains • Maintains body percussion steady tempo at steady tempo at levels) 94-106 beats 94-106 beats • Maintains per minute per minute steady tempo at 94-106 beats per minute