How to theoretically explain good time feel?

[Christian Miller]

And, one technique I was recently exposed to is to play both thumb and index on the same note on the D string. That one is intriguing because you can get all the 16th notes and give the bassist nothing to complain about.

This sounds like an interesting idea… I’ll give it a go!

[Litterick]

Eliane Elias to Peter Erskine:

"You Americans don't know how to swing samba; you all sound like TI-KA TI-KA TI-KA TI-KA."
I smirked and said, "Well then, how should it sound?"
She sang, "DO-goosh-ga, DO-goosh-ga, DO-goosh-ga, DO-goosh-ga."

From Peter Erskine's The Drum Perspective

[ragman1]

Does everything that isn't in line with your worldview just go in one ear and out the other?

It absolutely does when it's misquoted!

The phrase in parentheses '(explain time feel)' is yours, inserted into my quote.



But I didn't say explain, I was referring to 'quantify' which was your word. Quantify means to measure. Explain is something entirely different.



I know you want to get into some kind of thing but I'm not playing. Repeating your ideas again and again only fixes them more and more solidly in your own mind, which is a shame if they're not accurate in the first place.

And ragman not only thinks you can't explain it but you can't methodically learn any more than you have naturally.

I never said that - in fact, I said the contrary. I actually said... well, you can check back yourself, it's all there in black and white.

This is the last time I'm doing this correction stuff because it's brain-numbingly tedious. And I've got some playing to do!