Keeping time to music?

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How many can't do this? I mean like tapping your feet to a song...or on another note...when you try to do something in unison with someone else...like stomping your feet or clapping your hands at the same time to a rhythm.

By the time my brain tells my feet or hands what to do it seems like I am the last one doing it. I used to dread school "pep" rallies in high school when they would lead sections of the class in cheers, I would end up getting laughed at every time. Just wondering if it's a common thing though...my Dad had the same problem.

I don't know didly squat about music such as chord progression and beats and measures

I have rhyme!! !! !! !! !

I studied this when I took music appreciation during my freshman year of college, but it doesn't usually cross my mind.

Tim

My sense of rhythm is overall pretty shoddy, which is tragic to me because I love music and my lifelong ambition for a long time was to be a musician. Attempts at drumming usually left me frustrated and embarassed. My intrument of choice for a long time was guitar, but I could never get past the most basic rhythms...and keep them regular. I had a pretty good instinct for melody so I pitched myself more as a lead-guitar type, but it just overall never worked out because I could never find anyone who'd want to collaborate on the sorts of music I was interested in.

Anyway, yeah most rhythm-oriented activities are very frustrating to me due to my ineptness.

On a side note, I recall reading that John Cage was similarly rhythm-less, which is why a lot of his work sounds the way it does...he worked around his handicap.

Been there,

ESPECIALLY if you think about other things, you can't really do this. I don't think anyone can. It has to be like a trained response. MOST people have a problem with this, and THAT is why they have drum majors, conductors, metronomes, etc.... HECK, some music is geared off the drums!

Steve

I actually have a very good sense of rhythm....Sometimes too good, and other people can find it really distracting.

Praise Bob

You can always practice you rhythm by playing Stepmania
You can download the program and a couple of songs from my site, ftp://wrong:[email protected]:21

"StepMania-3.9.rar" file is the program.
"ddrmax.rar" The entire folder located in "ddrmax.rar" goes in the programs "songs"-folder. The songs will list when you start the game.

(Press enter two times when selecting a song for options!)
It's quite addictive!

Of course I eventually went overboard with the whole stepmania thing and rebuilt an entire DDR-cabinet to host a computer with stepmania, so I can dance-play to the songs ... But tapping with your fingers gets you less sweaty!

excellent feel for rhythm, here
The only time I run into a problem with it has been when I've messed around on a friends' drum kit. I just can't get the knack of getting 1 foot doing one thing, the other doing something else, and both arms doing something else entirely.
Guitar, tho, I'm a damned good rhythm guitarist... not so hot on lead.
Bass, same thing... pretty good bassist.

I'm a multi-instrumentalist. I'm actually pretty good... but I don't know theory for squat. I just go by ear and what's flowing out of my mind and into my fingers.

But when I get behind the drums... all I can do is weird syncopated improv jazz type crap. I can't even keep a standard 4:4 Ringo Starr beat to save my life.

I have a very good sense of tempo.

Actually I have a very good sense of rhythm, and I like to beat on table tops like drums to distract from annoying sounds or boring conversations.

Hmm... I also have a very good sense of rhythm. That's the first thing that came out of my guitar teacher's mouth when I took my first lesson! But then, I'd been obsessing over this one song, playing it over and over...

I find I can hear rhythm in places where most people don't, as well. I think it's one of my "splinter-skills"...