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trying to be in the middle of being an introvert Frank Sinatra song and I’d be the one playing [WM] This is a season of transition for you. by nature but also practice putting myself out upright because they would tell me I needed to What do you think some of the lessons to be there and processing out loud. It’s a new thing play upright. They were the ones that always learned in this season will be? but it’s definitely been helpful to figure out pushed me to the limit where I didn’t think that I what’s going on inside of me. could do it, and now that I’m here… I know that [David] I think something I have to remind I can do it because they’ve given me the tools. myself and I try to tell people all the time, living [WM] What about your tenure with Elevation in Charlotte was my biggest comfort zone served you most in terms of preparing you to [WM] Looking at Mack’s Instagram feed it ever. I grew up there, my best friend of twenty step into the bass player role Lauren’s band? looks like he played some of the bass in the years still lives there. I felt like I didn’t have to studio as well with Elevation. do anything to just have a good life. It’s very [David] There were a lot of people there who comfortable to live there, I knew I didn’t have to have really shaped me into who I am. Mostly work to have my role unfortunately. Lance Gatch and Mack Brock. They were huge, constantly wanting to push me forward. Lance I felt like I needed to transition, because I is an unbelievable musician. He can smoke needed to push myself to the next level and part anybody on guitar, bass, and drums. I don’t of that is learning to put myself out there, which feel intimidated by that because I know he can is something that I have to practice every day. do that with anyone’s instrument, he’s amazing I’m now in a city where I do have friends, but I at everything. He would always come up to me don’t know as many people as I do back home. and be like, “I can’t believe you just played that, So yeah, I can say that I was a part of Elevation how did you do that?” and, “What did you play out here, but everyone is a part of something there?” He was always encouraging me and here. That’s not something that carries as much grooming me to push me forward. weight in Nashville, because there are so many amazing things going on. They care about if Mack was the same way, wanting parts to [David] Yeah, he’s a great bass player, that’s you’re a good person and if you can execute sound better each and every year. I met them another thing. Mack can play bass for sure. on your instrument. when I was nineteen and I feel like they set There are a lot of the ideas on the Elevation me up for success in the professional world. albums where he’d say, “What if you did this?” You’re Playing with Lauren and having the things a super simple thing but it’s like, it was perfect. I connections. So, it goes back to even being on I learned from them, I feel like I know how to would say he shaped my bass playing because tour and being present. If I can’t put myself out do this. If Lauren’s asking me to play upright he’s a bass player himself and he’s thinking big here where I live, no one will even know I live bass for something, I know I can do it because picture because he knows what the guitars and here. I’ll just be sitting at my house wondering at Church we would do specials and play a keys are doing. I love learning from him as well. why no one is calling me. Maybe back home right this industry is all about I didn’t have to do that, and now that I live here I do have to do that but it’s making me better. Because I’m working out a muscle that I haven’t worked in a while. It’s making me a more balance-minded person at the same time! [WM] Is there anything you would like to say in closing? [David] Thank you for calling me, this has been great. It’s nice reflecting on all of these questions, because it’s been almost a year since we moved. It’s been a hard year, but it’s been awesome and it’s been great to think back with you and process all this stuff! October 2018 WorshipMusician.com 119