Playing tests often cause a lot of anxiety and fear - especially in beginning band students!I used this rubric with my beginning 6th-grade students and I saw an immediate decrease in stress and anxiety for tests. There are no points on the rubric, just four categories with four different places to rate students. The categories are posture, pitch accuracy, rhythmic accuracy, and tempo. Students can be rated as Mayonnaise, Patrick, Squidward, or Spongebob for each category. My students were so exc