Hey, Les, if you can get all five people to show up for a rehearsal, you're doing SOMETHING right!!!

The only groups I've played with have been "just for fun", so maybe this isn't applicable, but we would start an evening with "comfortable stuff", then, if someone had something new to work on we'd do that for awhile - I can't remember ever starting more than 2 brand new pieces on any given night, but then, like I said, we played just for fun. If nobody brought something new, we probably had a piece or few we'd started before but hadn't really worked out.

It seems we'd work our way from "new" through "we need a little work on this" to "could we do this a little different" back to the old favorites by the end. Maybe we were all a little lazy...but we had fun!

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