and training yourself to listen to the other guitar because we’re listening to what he’s playing. To could have just percussion and Lauren and it
player, or keyboard player, or vocalist. That’s go back to the church setting, when I was part would sound so cool, so I would pay attention
why I tell bass players to listen to the guitars, of the Broadcast band at Elevation we were to the percussion. Some songs are piano
listen to the keyboards, and learn the chords a group of guys that we’re trained to listen to ballads and so I focus on that. It’s all about
so you know. If you’re going to play a fill or do everybody else on stage. I was trained to listen finding the driving instrument and that’s what
something that’s going to stand out, please do to the guitar player and the drummer. We were I try to focus on.
it in a way that’s respecting the guitars, that’s picked to play in that band because they knew respecting the keyboards, or that’s respecting we we’re trained at listening, that we didn’t [WM] Where do you like to place things
the vocal melody. That’s how you play as a have tunnel vision when it came to playing on volume and pan-wise in your in-ear monitors?
band, you know the parts well enough so stage.
that you can kind of zone yourself out and
[David] That’s also very important. There’s
listen to everyone else on stage and ask the [WM] How do you choose what to focus nothing that drives me crazier, there have been
questions, “Am I overplaying right now? Am I on musically, be it drums, vocals, or the big times in rehearsals at my old church where you
respecting what they’re doing? Am I following picture? get bored and say, “Oh, I’m gonna play guitar
the drummer?” Lauren’s drummer Paul is an
for this!” or “I’m gonna play drums for this!” and
amazing drummer and literally all I am doing is [David] That might change depending on the you put the other persons in-ear pack in and
just playing behind him. Just play behind the song. For me I would say, with what instrument you hear what they’re listening to and it’s just
drummer, don’t get ahead of him and you’re in the song, if you were to take it out, does the themselves, nothing else. That’s just insane
great. That’s the answer, you don’t need to song completely fall apart? And that is the one to me. I like to have my ears sound pretty
play crazy fills, you’ve just got to play behind that I listen to. We have songs that are mostly well balanced, I know not every church has
him. If the guitar player is playing a melodic part piano driven, so if you take the piano out of this the ability to pan ears, but I think that what’s
don’t step on his toes. We have a lot of call and song there’s no song, we’re just complimentary most important even with panning, is to clean
response in our set and it’s training us to listen pieces. That’s the instrument I’ll pay attention things up so you can hear everything. I don’t
to everyone. If the keys player is playing this to. If you think about the song “Look Up Child” like bass to be the loudest thing, I like to be able
really cool thing, we’ll double him with that thing from Lauren’s album, that song in particular you to hear myself, but I want to hear everything
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