Think for a moment about musical time. Is it really the "beat?"
If that were all there was to it no one would go into music. I'ld have long ago become a professional potato masher.
Is there anything more complex than musical time?
Welcome to this day to day sharing of insights into music. My thoughts and my playing reflect my lifelong drive to integrate primary reactions to sounds with a sense of playfulness open to lyricism as to intellectual game-playing - the level of musical response endangered if not already extinct due to the endemic compilations of sameness that make up our soundworld.