Amy’s a rocker–haha, I’m laughing too

I got the black hair last night and then I sang in our youth band tonight.  Neither are related but someone did make a comment that I looked more rocker-ish now…let’s hope it’s less Ozzy-ish and more Kat Von Dish.  I should have painted my nails black and put on red lipstick.

Anyway, the entire afternoon and evening was spent at church.  The guys in the band asked if I would sing with the band two weeks ago.  I sort of ignored them, sure they were joking with the old-lady youth leader, and then they asked again last week if I would come to practice.  I wasn’t sure if any other youth had volunteered which is the optimal choice but I didn’t want to leave them hanging tonight.  And hey, I DO like singing and usually manage to hit a few good notes when I sing.  Although before tonight I had never held a microphone to sing and have only sung as part of school and church choirs starting in middle school. 

At first, I was having a really hard time singing.  I wasn’t belting it and the other guy that had ended up showing didn’t really know how to lead either.  We sounded like two 8 year olds singing to a cassette tape in their bedroom. 

Yeah, that good.

And then a girl got up with us and while she was good at timing, I don’t think she hit one note, bless her heart.  The other youth dragged her away from the stage and the guy singing with me’s girlfriend got up and sang with me.  She used to sing with St when he was there but she hadn’t been at practice in a long time.  After she got up, I did much better.   She was familiar with singing with the band on those songs, so she knew when to come in more than we did..which wasn’t hard.

Practice was generally horrible though.  We had a hard time knowing when to come in as all we had was chord sheets to follow and none of us stayed on tune the whole time.  But once youth group started and we did the 4 song set and we did purdy darn good.  It was far from perfect.  We ended songs in mid-sentence as the players weren’t sure whether to do the bridge one more time and all of us were not singing in tune the whole time and one song we missed almost a whole verse.

It wasn’t pretty.

But we tried and with the whole youth group singing, no one hardly noticed.  It’s sort of a joke in our youth group that no one can keep time and no one can stay on tune so there’s no high expectations, they just need someone to lead. 

So anyway, I’m going to go next week to practice hopefully with the other two youth singers and we’ll be a lot better. 

And to be honest, I sort of dig the whole being on stage singing thing.  But shh, don’t tell anyone.