The Rubric Bank — with all five levels

Reducing a logo to the simplest form that stays legible and distinctive across sizes.

Keeping a design's identity and coherence across different media and sizes.

Maintaining a consistent and continuous tempo throughout the performance

Accuracy in playing notes and avoiding deviation from correct pitches

Controlling and varying volume level in a deliberate manner

Conveying a feeling or meaning to the listener through musical performance

Accuracy of note timing and sequence within the rhythmic framework

Sound cleanliness from noise and interruption, and recording technical quality

Adhering to chosen musical scale or modulating to it intentionally

Hitting the Arabic neutral note (quarter-tone) precisely in cents, not rounding it to the nearest Western semitone.

Executing the Arabic rhythmic cycle's structure (dum/tak) at its correct time positions (Maqsūm, Maṣmūdī…).

Choosing what enters the frame and what's excluded, and distributing elements

Ability to capture the most expressive and impactful moment

Using natural or artificial light to serve subject and image mood

Clarity of what image wants to say and its ability to convey it

Angle or vision that differentiates image from similar ones

Controlling the zone of focus and blur to isolate the subject or tie it to its surroundings

Using lines within the scene to lead the viewer's eye toward the subject

Using empty space around the subject to give it weight and breathing room

The relationship among the image's colors and their ability to build a unified mood

Embedding meanings and symbols that grant the image a reading deeper than the literal

Choosing camera position and angle to change the viewer's relationship to the subject

Managing the difference between light and dark areas to build depth and impact

Unity of style and meaning across a set of images rather than a single shot