As I continually point out, counting is over-rated. It is set up as the first requirement of good musicianship and all children are expected to do it and listen at the same time. Because I could not do so I have been fascinated all my life with the relationship between tone and time on all its levels.
I would have been eliminated in any competition for piano skill - thankfully such things did not exist in the culture in which I grew up. As it was, I eliminated myself from that kind of running, opting instead to work at the instrument, at the music, at my problems on my own. Would I succeed? Who could say? And succeed at what, precisely?
Along the way I was fortunate to have mentors who did not interfere with my working style and did not impose simplistic solutions where there are none.
Insisting on the steady beat is a cop-out. It only turns people off. It turns everyone off Classical music. Ask around....
