Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for performance
MU.PR.4.HI.HS1a
Explain the criteria used when selecting a varied repertoire of music for individual or small group performances that include melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns). 
MU.PR.4.HI.HS1b
Identify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, or historical) in a variety of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns).
MU.PR.4.HI.HS1c
Describe in interpretations the context (social, cultural, or historical) and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns).
 
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic work for presentation
MU.PR.5.HI.HS1a
Develop and apply criteria to critique individual and small group performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns), and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.
 
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work
MU.PR.6.HI.HS1a
Perform with expression and technical accuracy in individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, or historical). 
 

Foundational Skills
Application to Instrument
- Maintain a steady beat, with visual assistance, while playing individually and with others note and rest values in simple and complex meters as encountered in the repertoire.
- Utilize musical symbols encountered in the repertoire.
- Perform fluently with key signature and accidental encountered in the repertoire.
- Perform major, minor, 7th, and barre chords.
- Perform independent parts while others play contrasting parts (e.g., level 2-3).
- Respond to basic conducting cues (e.g. phrasing and expression).
- Respond to basic conducting cues (e.g. tempo, dynamics).
- Perform scale, intervals, and arpeggios using appropriate technique as specified in the repertoire.
- Perform individually repertoire that includes music two voices (contrapuntal texture).
- Perform dynamics, timbre, tempo, phrasing, and articulation in the repertoire.
- Utilize a basic characteristic tone with greater stability.
- Utilize proper hand position and posture.
- Perform with an emerging accurate intonation, balance, and blend in support of the ensemble.
- Tune instrument to a given pitch and adjust to match pitch and develop awareness of tuning to self and others.
- Perform literature from memory.
- Demonstrate proper care and maintenance of instrument
 
Identify and Describe
- Musical symbols encountered in the repertoire.
- Intervals and chord structures.
- Function of key and time signatures. 
- Simple music forms and characteristics.
- Elements of music.
- Roles within the ensemble.
- Whole and half step patterns encountered in the repertoire.
- Relationship between music and mathematics as it occurs in the repertoire.
- One’s own physical mechanics and skill level essential to playing the repertoire.
- Adjusting to the acoustic properties and the effect on the performers and the performance space.