Elements and Performance Criteria
- Use personal practice time to refine skills
- Identify strengths and weaknesses in own performance skills in consultation with appropriate people
- Develop a practice plan and strategies that incorporate realistic goals for refining performance technique
- Identify and incorporate into practice plan repertoire to achieve technical and expressive development goals
- Ensure that practice routine optimises use of voice, time and performance space
- Develop technical control of voice to enhance musical expression and refine individual style
- Experiment with repertoire and exercises to refine technical accuracy
- Listen critically to own performance to evaluate technical strengths and weaknesses, and adjust practice regime accordingly
- Ensure that practice is undertaken with due consideration to personal health and safety
- Plan repertoire to meet performance goals
- Research new repertoire to identify pieces or works that advance performance scope and skills
- Use opportunities to trial new work for peers and/or mentors, and incorporate their feedback into private practice
- Practise a range of pieces or works that focus on identified areas of technical development
- Select repertoire, ensuring that relevant copyright and performing rights requirements are met, and determine order of items for performance
- Devise a program for performance, and source any accessories or equipment required
- Rehearse program with accompanist(s) or band as applicable
- Convey interpretive and expressive qualities in performance
- Use vocal articulation and tone colours to interpret and realise the emotional content of songs
- Demonstrate control of sound production across the range of repertoire for the selected musical style
- Extend physical coordination and control over the voice to produce a highly accomplished standard of performance
- Listen to own work critically to produce accurate intonation and tone colour across the dynamic range of the instrument
- Present a professional performance program to an audience
- Undertake appropriate psychological and vocal warm up and warm down activities to enhance performance outcomes
- Interpret songs, perform from memory, improvise or read from charts or musical notation as required
- Use verbal and non-verbal cues to indicate start, end and changes throughout the performance
- Use vibrato and a range of vocal techniques to create a variety of musical effects as required
- Control intonation, rhythm, tempi, expression, phrasing and nuance to a professional performance standard appropriate to the repertoire and musical style
- Use performance recovery measures to mitigate errors, with minimum disruption to performance flow and audience experience
- Maintain stage fitness to ensure a professional technical standard in performance
- Evaluate technical skills in performance