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A selfie of me, a white man with a red beard and short hair, holding a shiny black electric guitar. The guitar strap is thick and leather, and there's a capo attached to the neck of the guitar, which is a device that sits across all the strings and makes the pitch of the notes higher.

I made some guitar-related purchases! I needed a new strap because I'm pretty sure the one I was using was the original Fender one from my first guitar kit from like fourteen years ago, and it was starting to tear where the strap hooks onto the guitar, so I got a handsome new black leather one. The other bit was a trigger capo because the next section of my Fender Play learnings needs it.

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Posted on 17 March 2022, 20:08

A screenshot of the iPad app "Melodics". It's showing a pattern of notes to hit on the drums, right/left/right/right/left/right/left/left on the hi-hat and snare, so you end up doing in groups of three, but for the kick drum it's on every second note.

I'm still doing my drum practicing, currently learning some grooves that include paradiddles, and one rhythm for my hands and an entirely different one for my foot is totally breaking my brain!

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Posted on 14 February 2022, 12:42

A small (~30cm wide) horizontal speaker with a light grey mesh on the front. The speaker body is made of walnut and it's quite charmingly retro-looking.

The same speaker but without the grill, showing the individual speakers inside it. There's two woofers towards the middle, and two tweeters on either end.

Both my USB guitar input and electronic drum set have headphone jacks on them, and no way to get actual audio out of them without plugging into that. If I'm using headphones by myself that's fine, but if I want to be showing someone else while hearing what I'm doing, it's a bit of a problem!

I looked into Bluetooth speakers that have 3.5mm jacks as well (we've got a little Bluetooth speaker that I use to listen to music from my phone when I'm out in the back room doing my painting and it does okay, but the sound quality's not great plus it lacks any way of getting audio to it except Bluetooth), and decided to get the Audioengine B2. It arrived today and is both very handsome and sounds quite good!

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Posted on 14 December 2021, 12:14

Judas Priest - Breaking the Law

I haven't been posting much about it, but my guitar learning is coming along pretty well! This is the riff from Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law". (I should clarify that this is the entirety of what I know from that song).

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Posted on 15 October 2021, 20:22

A photo of an electronic drumkit with a metal arm attached to the bar in the middle that's protruding up behind the two middle toms, with an iPad being held at the top of it and the "Melodics" app on screen.

Huzzah, my tablet arm finally arrived! No more looking awkardly off to the left to follow my drum lessons. 🎉

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Posted on 23 August 2021, 13:16

A photo of my Roland electronic drum kit set up in front of the TV, where Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock from the Xbox 360 is mid-song. There's PostIt notes on the drums to indicate which drum corresponds to which colour pad from the original drum set.

IT'S ALIIIIIVE!

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Posted on 9 August 2021, 21:00

A photo of the MadCatz Rock Band MIDI adapter controller, used for plugging my drum kit into the Xbox 360 for use with Guitar Hero.

Aww yisssss! (Now hopefully it works with Guitar Hero... I've seen anecdotal reports that it does, but nothing official from the manufacturer). Also this controller is over ten years old now and the plastic is doing that weird thing where it gets sticky, so I'll need to clean it up.

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Posted on 9 August 2021, 13:39

A photo of two cardboard boxes and a pair of drum sticks.

Oh hell yeah, in continuing with the "Stuff arriving earlier than expected" theme, my drum stool, kick pedal, and drum sticks were just delivered!

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Posted on 2 August 2021, 11:16

A photo of an assembled Roland electronic drum kit.

Good news! The drum kit is set up and works perfectly.

Bad news, the reason there was a delivery estimate of Wednesday and why I received the drum kit today is because the kit was shipped directly from Roland's warehouse in Dee Why, but the drum stool, kick pedal, and drumsticks are coming from the place I ordered them from in Newcastle, and those three things are what're arriving on Wednesday. 😛

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Posted on 30 July 2021, 14:20

A photo of two large cardboard boxes, one labelled "Roland TD-17KV V-Drums Pack" and the other "MDS-Compact Drum Stand".

Well uh, that arrived significantly faster than I was expecting (Australia Post said the ETA was Wednesday next week).

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Posted on 30 July 2021, 10:57