They value the gifts and talents God has given with the skills, position, platform, testimony me and recognize my heart’s desire to make and influence he has given me. In essence, a difference wherever I go with whatever I’m I am nothing more than a trusted steward [WM] You have taught drum clinics all around
called to do. over the master’s property, which is of course the world and several times at our Christian
everything. Musician Summit conferences. Tell us what
Therefore, they have graciously granted me the
talented individuals.
topics you like to cover and teach to the
freedom to be who God made me to be and [WM] You are consistently voted the #1 of course that feels magnificent. We are at our R&B drummer by the premier music industry best when we’re doing what we’re gifted to do publications Modern Drummer, Drum! and [Zoro] Because there’s so much to mastering
and around people who bring the best out in Rhythm Magazine. What shift takes place in one’s instrument I teach on a variety of topics.
us. My committed colleagues at Bayside are your mind when you’re sitting behind a drum kit Things such as time, technique, touch, tone,
world-class people of excellence who inspire ready to start a worship set at Bayside? taste, vocabulary, and phrasing, are a lifetime
me greatly and I love being around their hearts
worship drummers in the class?
study. I love to help drummers delve deeper
and synergy. I’ve also made some great lifelong [Zoro] There is no shift because my job is into a variety of “feels”, because all music is
friends here. So have my wife and children, and always the same in any setting, be it musical, based on particular “feels” that are indicative to
we are thriving as a family at Bayside in every personal or spiritual. First serve the Lord with that music.
way, which is a tremendous blessing. all my heart, mind, soul and strength, then as a musician to serve the music, the song, I have over fifteen thousand CDs in my music
I will always be a musician, but that’s not who I and the team I’m playing behind. I see myself collection, thousands of albums, downloads,
am. It’s only one of the things I do. My identity merely as a servant and drumming is just one books and DVDS because I’m a passionate
is not in what I do, but rather in whom I belong of the ways that I serve. I have the privilege student of so many styles of music and its
to and in whom I do everything for. I am an and good pleasure of playing regularly with corresponding history. So, I love to share a
adopted son of the living God, a bondservant of Lincoln Brewster and with Bayside’s Midtown multitude of musical concepts to try and inspire
Jesus Christ. I live to serve him and I’m driven worship team, an incredible funky R&B oriented students to reach more of their potential and
to expand his kingdom and build his people ensemble comprised of a group of highly expand their horizons. The desire to learn
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