clean the tarnish on your bass hardware

How To Clean Your Instrument’s Tarnished Hardware (and other parts)

A few months back I had a two-and-a-half month gig in the tropical heat of Cancun, Mexico.  After the gig was done all my bass guitars were put back in their hardshell cases, loaded into a crate, shipped off from Cancun, sailed over the Gulf of Mexico, hit land in Florida, and then driven to …

Jay Lamm speaks his mind on this and that

Your Mind Is Like a Knife

Musicians! Listen up! Your mind is like a knife! Let’s forget about your fingers, your hands, your wrists, and your feet (drummers).  One of the biggest things we aim for as musicians is the perfect communication between our minds – and what we hear in it – to our hands.  We want to be able …