Guitar Playing Test Rubric

Category 5 4 3 2 1
Posture Student posture is Student Student
excellent: Posture is Student posture is poor No effort is given
shoulders are mostly good, posture needs to the point of towards
straight, legs but could use multiple causing maintaining
crossed or both some minor adjustments performance good posture
feet are flat on the adjustment errors
ground
RH & LH RH or LH is
Technique Hand are perfectly positioned Both hands are Both hands are
positioned. awkwardly or positioned positioned No effort is given
Student improperly; awkwardly; improperly to towards using
consistently however, Student makes the point of good hand
employs correct student is able some errors in inhibiting a technique
hand techniques to employ RH technique good
correct RH performance
techniques
Rhythm The beat is
somewhat
The beat and erratic, though There is no sense
rhythms are some rhythms The beat is of beat and all
The beat is secure mostly secure; are accurate; usually erratic rhythms were
and the rhythms a few duration frequent or and rhythms inaccurate,
are accurate errors, but they repeated are seldom leading to the
do not detract duration accurate musical being
from errors; unrecognizable
performance problems
detract from
performance
Note All notes were Frequent errors
Accuracy played Some mistakes with notes and Student unable
All notes were correctly, in the notes fingerings to finish piece
played correctly however and fingerings, causing student due to inability
and with all the occasionally but was easily to stop and to accurately
proper fingerings the wrong able to recover correct play notes or use
fingerings were themselves proper fingerings
used
Musicality Student plays Student is Student is
Student plays the the piece with hesitant while hesitant while Student is clearly
piece confidently confidence, but playing, and playing, and unprepared and
and follows all some musical some musical most musical is able
musical directions markings were directions were directions were
ignored ignored ignored