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A photo of the kick drum setup for our electronic drum kit in the office. Instead of one beater (the bit that moves and hits the drum, or in this case the sensor pad) there are two side-by-side, with one pedal in the normal spot and another off to the left connected to the main pedal by a metal rod.

My word, at some point since I was last in we got a double kick setup. 😅 Never having played one before, I am unsurprisingly not very good at it!

The jam session was fun, unfortunately the bass guitar had a dying battery in it so we couldn't use it but the other people I was playing with were fine with me requesting to go back to simple chord changes so I could play guitar, and we also did some extremely-excellent-fun power chord chugging. 🤘🏻

Posted on 29 January 2026, 19:46

A selfie of me, a white man with a short red (and very rapidly greying) beard and short (and receeding) hair, sitting in front of the babby model of Roland's electronic drum kit range. Behind me are two people busily still playing music, one on bass guitar and the other on a full-size keyboard.

A photo of the MASSIVE Christmas tree in the middle of Martin Place in Sydney's CBD, it'd have to be at least two storeys high. There's a barrier around the bottom of it and a cherry picker part-way up it to the right. It's lit up though, primarily in tiny purple lights.

Jam session success! We mostly did improvisation and got some seriously excellent grooves going. I asked how my drumming was afterwards (one of the people there is actually in a band, though I have no idea how serious an endeavour it is) and they said "Really good!" 😁 Feels good, man.

And you can tell we're getting into Christmas season, the enormous Christmas tree in Martin Place is very nearly finished. We were out getting a coffee after lunch and there was a guy up in a cherry picker putting the huge balls on that were a significant fraction the height of him.

Also one of the people started playing the intro riff to Tool's Schism so now I'm listening to Lateralus on the trip home.

christmas selfie me darkroom in the office jamming

Posted on 20 November 2025, 20:15

A selfie taken of me and three other work friends in our music room in the office. There's me, a white man with a short red beard and short red hair at the very left of the frame grinning and leaning in so I'm actually in the frame, sitting behind an electronic drum kit. Next around is Harry, a white man with shoulder-length curly brown hair standing holding a bass guitar. After that is Andy, a white man with a short black beard, black hair, and glasses, also standing and holding an electric guitar. And lastly is Nidhi, a South Asian woman with glasses and dark hair, leaning in from the right of the frame over a keyboard and grinning cheesily.

Another Thursday, another jam session! And we had a team event today and so had a paid-for-by-work lunch at a Japanese restaurant in Barangaroo and it was delicious. 👌🏻

selfie me darkroom friends in the office jamming

Posted on 8 May 2025, 19:43

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 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 photo of five people sitting around a somewhat messy music area in our office. The drum kit is empty because I was on it but stepped back to take the photo, but we have someone on bass guitar, two guitarists, a keyboardist, and a vocalist.

In the office again for the first after-work music jam of the new year! As well as the guitar/bass/drums/keyboard, there's a little Korg synth of some description and one of the people had great fun playing around with that despite not actually knowing how to really use it. At one point I ended up just starting a simple little progression on the bass guitar and then everyone else joined in along the same lines and it sounded so good! Completely improvised but we all got into the groove and it was hella satisfying.

Then at the end we played Black Sabbath's Paranoid and oh man such a good song but I was on drums at that point and it absolutely did my arm in, haha.

darkroom friends in the office jamming

Posted on 30 January 2025, 20:44

I was in the office today for another post-work jam session! It was a lot of fun, I just stuck with the drums this time and we played along to a number of songs before we did some general improvising. The best thing about drums is that I don't actually need to know how the drums REALLY go, I can just get the tempo right and off I go. We played Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising, and a number of other songs I've never heard of, but it was great.

There was a non-work university friend of one of the work people on vocals, and while we were improvising and she didn't have anything to do I asked if she could take a video of us, longer than the six seconds from a couple of months ago. Next time I think I need to get it taken from where the speaker is actually pointing to because the sound is not great in this as the speaker was over by the bass player and pointing out to the right, oops. I also managed to get the recording done RIGHT before 8pm which is when the lights in the building automatically turn off, hence why it goes dark right at the end. 😅

(We have a big multi-channel mixer that I could probably hook something into and record the proper audio straight from the instruments, which I think I might need to look into at some point...)

me friends video drums in the office jamming

Posted on 5 December 2024, 22:04

A photo of three people smiling at the camera. There's me at the very right, a white man with a red beard wearing a Metallica t-shirt and while you can't see it, I'm holding a guitar. To the left is Hob, a lanky white man with shoulder-length curly hair and a bass guitar on his back while he's sitting at an electronic piano, and then on the other side is Dan, an Asian man with... uh... not long but also not short hair? He's sitting at a Roland electronic drum kit. The floor of the space we're in is a bit of a mess of wires.

And last on the agenda today was a jam session after work!

selfie me darkroom friends guitar in the office jamming

Posted on 24 October 2024, 19:44

Plus, bonus short video! 😁

music friends video in the office jamming

Posted on 26 September 2024, 20:45

A wide-angle photo of six people sitting around a somewhat messy music area in our office. I'm on drums, we have someone on bass guitar, two guitarists, a keyboardist, and a vocalist.

Yessss, jam session was excellent! We had a group of other people who were using the space just before us and some of them stayed back and ended up playing with us as well.

I turned out to be the only drummer so only played that, but got some compliments on it which I was stoked about! Especially given that the other people were waaaay above my level in terms of guitar or bass skills, haha. They were actually playing some songs, none of which I had the remotest idea of how to play on drums and some of them which I hadn't even heard, but I was able to put down a good beat at the right speed and it worked out really well. We even ended up doing some bluesy-sounding thing at the end where I did a shuffle beat and it sounded fantastic!

music darkroom friends drums in the office jamming

Posted on 26 September 2024, 20:34