Choir time

I have always been interested in singing, but have never really tried to practice it before, that is, joined a choir or similar. I might have had a chance to do that in Madison for example, but that specific choir seemed to serious. But now, in another new city, it was time to do something about the singing itch. I found a choir that seemed like a fit for me at the Umeå webpage's cultural section. A couple of e-mails back and forth to the choir's webmaster later, I was asked if I was interested in joining the choir, which I of course was. My first sessions (but the choir's third-to-last for this semester) was this evening. I thought that I should sing the bass voice, but since they were short of tenors, I started there instead. It's a little bit different to sing one of these voices, since you are not at all singing the ordinary voice that you know from the song. But, I guess that this is something that I have to practice. Luckily, I am quite good at reading notes, since I have been playing the piano for quite some time. The fact that we brought the syntheziser will also make it easier to practice at home, by myself. Tonight's practice was some spring tunes that will be sung at Walpurgis Night (April 30th). The rest of the choir encouraged me to continue which felt good. I guess that they are quite happy to lower the mean age of the choir too.