You're right, and it's always educational (at least for me) to hear from actual musicians about this stuff. I had someone on another thread that was a drummer tell me something very similar.figroll wrote:That's because CH doesn't use the proper notation that a musician would recognise. Those rhythms should be "1+2 3+4" (say 1 and 2 3 and 4) and "1+2+3+4" (1 and 2 and 3 and 4) so that the position of the beats don't move around (e.g. 2 is always the second beat in the bar). The use of this notation, which I think comes from GH, is meant to make it easier for non-musicians but I think just makes it harder and means you never learn to count properly because the notation doesn't really work.ComboNo1 wrote:- Complex beats: I can put "123-123 & 1234567-" on a beat meter and you can follow it. I don't think that works without it.
Also you can count the rhythm which is why everyone can do DOUBLE TIME (i.e. "1+2+3+4+") without looking at the beat meter. i.e. you are counting 1 2 3 4 subconsciously and when it says double time you just know how to double that count. This is all built into our brains and the number of people who cannot do this is vanishingly small.
(None of this really matters of course it just bugs me as a guitarist).
So, maybe this is another +1 for the beat meter. We can both follow the beats even if I like to use Cock Hero Beats Notation (tm), and you find all the beat names "wrong" because of your musical background.