Worship Musician January 2019 | Page 13

For example, one of my bass players just got off the Taylor Swift World Tour, he was playing with Camila Cabello, he’s a phenomenal musician. Another one of our musicians used to play for Tori Kelly, he’s insanely talented. We’ve got such a strong team. You get into that environment where there are so many experts, so many people who have years of experience behind them, I find it really inspiring actually. I’m sure it will be a great learning environment hanging out there and meeting folks. But that is a funny thing for me, like I said, I didn’t get into this as a musician, I’ve learned to be a musician. But I’m always surrounded by people who are more proficient than I am. [WM] You mentioned that your primary gifting is songwriting. People tend to invest most in the areas where they have the most gifting and tend to shy away from the weak areas. What are your thoughts on this? [Matt] You could just be being lazy in a certain area if you’re not careful. I could say that I’m a songwriter, so forget learning the guitar. I guess you have to be careful that you don’t get into that mentality. For me the fact is, sometimes you come to find out where your best gifting is, what you ultimately feel more called to, the area that other people are affirming a call on your life, and also what is going to be the most effective call in your set. For me it is definitely the songwriting. When that feels right, I have seen the power of it. I’ve seen someone on the brink of suicide saying that a song saved them from taking their life. There have been people sentenced to the firing squad and since then have become Christians, looking down the barrel of a gun singing one of my songs. So, I think doing whatever I can there any songs that you lament not having had not a song publisher, I’ll have someone else to reach people, like to learn a few more guitar more impact and if so, what would you say are do that for me and use their gifts, but my gift things, is great, but I feel very compelled to the ‘practical factors’ that set up success for is in the writing of the song. It is very easy for invest in the songwriting… to grow and learn the ones that did? songwriters to go, “Okay, now how do I get my song out there?” And there are some healthy wherever I can about songwriting. [Matt] Honestly, I don’t know if this sounds ways you can go about that, putting them on [WM] For every ‘hit song’ there are always cheesy or too easy, but really just the breath of people’s radar in case they’re helpful or drawn ones that for whatever reason don’t take flight God. If God breathes on something then it can to them in some way. in terms of ‘popularity’. As a songwriter, are be amazing. Again, my gifting is a songwriter, January 2019 Subscribe for Free... 13