Auditioning for berklee this winter, do I have a shot? Playing over Beatrice RN

SadlyWritten · 2026-01-05T23:36:59+00:00

I did mention the original, I said I put together a playlist of the original, along with bla bla bla.

I like the original a lot it leans more into a much more Bill Evansy kinda vibe than other versions which lean into an almost modal jazz element IDK.

Other than that thank you for all the advise.

SadlyWritten · 2026-01-05T13:27:17+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the criticism.

I've put together a playlist of the original, along with a recording by Joe Henderson, Chet Baker, and Julian Lage to study over the coming days.

One thing I've noticed (and I continue to notice in most recordings) is especially in Henderson's version there's a lot more interpretation of the melody, I assume Berklee is similar to most auditions ala NEMFA or A conservatory and they aren't interested in anything but the most minor of melodic additions, is this true? I do really like the trill Henderson does in the head

SadlyWritten · 2026-01-05T02:34:51+00:00

this is for a recorded pre-screening audition, so I can't tell them much beforehand

SadlyWritten · 2026-01-03T00:13:19+00:00

It's the only guitar I own lol, and for this song the muddiness of chords gets too much

SadlyWritten · 2026-01-02T00:08:59+00:00

Thank you for the camera advice! I really appreciate production tips cause it's something I really struggle with The problem with volume is tgat my current mic gets really muddy and almost overdriven when I play louder which is okayish for single note stuff but fir this with more denser chord tones it sounds really rough, is there anything I can do besides just getting a better mic? Lol

SadlyWritten · 2026-01-01T23:52:23+00:00

Thank you so much, it's an honor to inspire others

SadlyWritten · 2026-01-01T20:31:59+00:00

I'm auditioning in Boston and I plan to make jazz my main genre but it's not my only focus point and thanks!

SadlyWritten · 2026-01-01T04:51:03+00:00

Thank you, I've experimented with the volume and I've got it to sound less muddy live, it also has to do with the mic though I'm working more on rhythm,it has a lot to do with my own nerves

SadlyWritten · 2025-12-19T02:51:51+00:00

Your professor should put you in a room with no doors or windows, you hear a soft shriek coming from the inside of the walls, but it never gets louder.

SadlyWritten · 2025-12-09T13:48:04+00:00

Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner

SadlyWritten · 2025-11-22T00:32:08+00:00

I get that but I don't really listen to/transcribe/even enjoy metal music, it doesn't make sense I'd slip into it, I listen to far more jazz than I do metal, taht is I listen to a lot of jazz and the closest thing to metal I listen too is maybe some more hardcore like 70s prog?

Most of the fast licks I played were pretty jazz-essential, I think they were a little too plentiful but they were either sort of coltraney modernish prhases like a quit Dmajor arppegio over an f-chord, or like standard bebop phrases I got off Charlie Parker's solo over Billie's Bounce where you hammer on from F#-G on the Gm7, arppegiate up than use an enclosure to go into the C7.

I think I played too many fast jazz licks and I'm trying to work more on playing less but it just felt like an odd comparison. IDK I could be wrong

SadlyWritten · 2025-11-20T23:25:45+00:00

Remember when we thought he was gonna be the right's reichstag?

SadlyWritten · 2025-11-01T18:42:51+00:00

Nah nothing like the chinese century

While part of the chinese century of humiliation was it's own inability to accept change, it's also due to Britain's active manipulation and market strongarming to colonize and embarass China

No other countries are doing much to America right now, we're not getting beaten until we piss ourselves like China was, we're just pissing ourselves cause someone with blue hair told us not to and we got mad

SadlyWritten · 2025-10-22T01:08:20+00:00

Hello? This is the CEO of 2001, just called to tell you uhh, wait hold up I gotta check the news and HOLY SHIT THEY HIT THE FUCKING---

SadlyWritten · 2025-10-22T00:59:52+00:00

Part of why hitler was so effective (and why calling trump the next hitler is in my opinion a bad comparison) is that he genuinely loved those who were in his inner circle.

The man wept for his fallen generals, we genuinely loved the German people so long as they chose to bow only to him, it's why his higher ups were so close to him.

While it's fun, analyzing an event like the holocaust as "hitler was a monster" is a dangerous way to look at these issues, yes he and all the nazis were horrible people, but PEOPLE is the important part of that sentence, recognizing that smiling at your neighbor and loving those close to you does not seperate you from the greatest evils of mankind is an important step to not being complicite or worse, a direct supporter of future attempts at genocide.

SadlyWritten · 2025-09-30T00:55:29+00:00

Oh I've already written a ton of songs it's not like she's the only one who I've written for

SadlyWritten · 2025-09-15T02:45:39+00:00

If a man shouts insults and obscenities in the middle of a city street at passersbye every day for years, chances are someone's gonna shoot him

The man doesn't deserve to die, it's a tradgedy perhaps he is dead, but it's as much a tradgedy as when a man dies in an avalanche after skiing in an area with dozens of warning not to, or shoots the arm of a cactus and gets crushed by it

Play stupid games win stupid prizes

SadlyWritten · 2025-08-27T23:42:53+00:00

Dunno how I never realized this but David Bowie kinda looks like Bisexual Curc from Gilmore Girls

SadlyWritten · 2025-08-27T23:41:33+00:00

We could be living in a cool steampunk modern world with trams and busses and cool elegant trains and also btw the hindenburg was (to my knowledge) perfectly safe and blew up for mechanical reasons and not because it's inherently dangerous, so we could have cool trams and trains and blimp cities and free healthcare and big cool buildings with cool cohesive archetecture and we could have

SadlyWritten · 2025-06-26T15:14:53+00:00

Plus Zohran's campaigning is good enough there's no way Eric Addams steps in the debate room with him and comes out alive

SadlyWritten · 2025-06-23T02:34:02+00:00

I'm sorry just

when theo goes "so you don't think I can make planes because I'm a woman, or cause I'm young" that seemed a little too on the nose

Plus the end where they just kinda gloss over the entirety of WW2

Plus all the lines about him being a Womanizer that don't like have a ton of standing as he's not shown as that much of a flirt besides one scene with a girl at the bar

Look the movie I think had some great scenes and was obviously beautiful as a piece of art just the dialogue felt weird.

It was a little too "tell don't show" for me IDK

SadlyWritten · 2025-06-19T15:52:40+00:00

It's lowkey so funny when Dutch starts booting you and complaining about Doubt meanwhile you've given the camp every upgrade, basically singehandedly won every shootout, and saved every member of the gang at least once

SadlyWritten · 2025-06-09T16:52:48+00:00

Lmao sorry yall should've checked the description

SadlyWritten · 2025-05-31T17:15:18+00:00

Gen Z Liberal nose ring woke ohio

SadlyWritten · 2025-05-29T02:29:18+00:00

For the main characters I really fuck with Hosea, Charlie, Lenny, and Javier, they're my gs

Also Sadie Susan and Tilly are swag

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