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A selfie of me, a white man with short brown hair and a short red beard, sitting at a drum kit. On the left is my friend holding a deep red Fender bass guitar, he's an Asian man with glasses and a cap on, and on the right is my other friend, a white man with not-quite-as-short-as-mine brown hair holding a black Epiphone electric guitar. We're all grinning at the camera.

A photo of Bosko, who is a black miniature poodle with a bunch of grey on his muzzle. He's sitting in his dog bed that's on an armchair, with his head resting on the front of the bed.

Jam session was excellent fun! The drum speaker worked an absolute treat and held its own perfectly against the bass and guitar amps, and we ended up playing for probably a good five hours all up. And we had the occasional audience too, haha.

selfie me darkroom friends lane cove jamming

Posted on 15 April 2025, 18:29

A photo of the back of our Kia Cerato with my drum kit in pieces but fitting quite happily into the boot (with the rear seats down, of course).

Honestly, how good are hatchbacks. I pulled apart my drum kit for the jam session tomorrow and packed it into the Cerato and it fits perfectly, along with my little Blackstar guitar amp and the significantly larger drum monitor.

our house darkroom drums

Posted on 14 April 2025, 15:58

Highland Fugue

I have written another song! This one is called "Highland Fugue" and I'm super happy with it, I also bløgued about the process too!

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Posted on 14 April 2025, 15:20

A photo of two golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, sitting on a cooling rack.

Starting off the holidays with some delicious bread. Sadly I ran out of @[email protected]'s amazing jam a couple of months ago.

lightroom our house food portrait mode bread

Posted on 13 April 2025, 12:22

A selfie of me, a white man with an increasingly-scruffy-looking red beard and receding hairline, sitting at an electronic drum kit. There's also Hob, a white man with glasses and shoulder-length curly hair, sitting down with a semi-hollow Gretsch electric guitar in his lap, and Daniel, an Asian man with sort of mid-length (?) black hair standing up and smiling and he's looking down at a dark green Ibanez bass guitar.

A photo looking out west from the 30th floor of our office. In the foreground are tall buildings, though lower than where I'm standing, tapering down to residential houses and units further back, and the sky has clouds scattered across that are lit up yellow from the sunset. The sun itself is behind a cloud bank in the distance.

I was in the office again for another after-work jam session, and this time we did almost zero playing along to real songs and spent most of the time improvising! I started on bass which was a bit dicier because I required that I actually figured out what the hell notes I was playing (though I DID actually correctly remember the typical progression for a 12-bar blues which I was quite pleased with, as well as which notes it should be!), but we got over that hump and got some pretty cool grooves, and then I switched to drums and we got a particularly awesome minor key thing going with me playing the eighth notes on the low tom.

The sunset before I headed over to our music room was decent too!

sunset clouds selfie darkroom friends in the office jamming

Posted on 10 April 2025, 20:18

A screenshot of just the sheet music from the current lesson I'm doing, there are four bars and it's almost entirely quarter notes except for one little funky bit with eighth notes at the end of the second bar. So not exactly a complex rhythm but still!

The guy who does the bass guitar course I've been going through did a big refresh of the entire course with every single lesson re-recorded and new and clearer graphics (and much more humour), so I figured I'd just start again from the beginning since I'd only gotten two-thirds of the way through it since getting my bass almost two years ago now. The previous lesson I'd just finished was about sheet music and musical notation, and while I'd already gotten the symbols down (whole note, half note, quarter note, etc.) from learning drums, the actual note names on the sheet music had previous eluded me.

I've been making a point of trying to read the notes just from the sheet music in the Bass Buzz videos rather than solely relying on the tab, and I've just done a lesson where I was able to read the notes from the sheet music AND apply it to where they are on the neck, all without needing the tab! 😁 Very happy!

(Side note, if anyone is wanting to learn bass guitar, I cannot recommend Bass Buzz highly enough, it's absolutely fantastic.)

screenshot bass guitar

Posted on 1 April 2025, 22:01

A photo looking towards the floor at right-hand side of my drum kit underneath where the two crash cymbals and ride cymbal life, showing the drum speaker. It's black box with a grille on the front, with the front of it with the speaker and grille in being angled so it points up at you as you're sitting at the kit.

I have two weeks off at the end of April, and had been talking to a couple of friends who play guitar and bass about getting together and actually playing some music. One of them is on a long break and the other only works part-time, so we're going to meet up during the day on a week day during my time off and rock out!

Very looking forward to bit, but I realised that the only external speaker I had was the little Audioengine one I'd bought a while back and that really wasn't going to cut the mustard competing with a guitar and bass amp, so I bought a Roland PM-100 drum monitor which arrived today, and it fits perfectly under the kit at the right!

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Posted on 28 March 2025, 12:48

A photo of a bowl with two slices of beef brisket, mac and cheese, some green beans, and a big slice of fluffy bread.

Aw yiss, in the office today for an after-work music jam, and the hot lunch was beef brisket and mac and cheese and it was goooood.

darkroom food portrait mode in the office

Posted on 27 March 2025, 13:25

A photo of an old PowerBook G3 sitting on my desk, with windows for Hotline and Internet Explorer 5 (with macintoshrepository.org loaded) open. I also have the "About This Computer" window visible in front of everything, showing that the computer has 512MB RAM in total, with the entirety of the OS taking up 43MB.

Talking to @[email protected] about my old websites got me right in the nostalgia and missing the time when computers and the internet were simpler, so I've booted up the old Pismo and am bathing in the Mac OS 9. 😁

our house mac os 9 powerbook g3 darkroom retro things

Posted on 22 March 2025, 20:48

A nighttime photo of some sheep grazing in the front yard of a house. The photo is lit from the street light just behind me so the light fades off as it gets towards the brick house at the back of the yard.

Oh and to top it all off, on the walk home I came across some sheep having a nom!

schofields darkroom sheep night mode

Posted on 21 March 2025, 21:03