With well over 550 songs in our book, it's difficult to memorize them all. Especially since some of the songs are not pulled out often.

But most of them are memorized anyway, and to tell you the truth, I don't know how I do it.

The chords come quite easy to me, it's the words that I find hardest to memorize.

I keep cheat sheets up (on computer) and glance at it, mostly for the first word in a line or section. I've already practiced enough to not need to read it. Then little by little the need to glance gets less and less.

Now if we pull out a song we haven't played in a few months, there will be more glances, but still much more eye contact with the audience than the screen.

Sorry if that is not much help.

Notes

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