Not a cool musician by any means but if you learn a song from notes and you haven’t heard it then counting makes it a lot easier to keep it together. I counted when playing the trombone. Just made sense to do so.Slaughterhouserock wrote:To the musicians of the boards: do you actually count when playing? Like a song that's 4/4 time, do you count out the four? I've been playing bass for twenty-seven years and have never counted. I've been watching some youtube videos on music theory and shit, and they all talk about counting like it's normal. Am I just a weird fucker in not doing so? I mean, you learn the song, you play it. Why the fuck you gotta count?
I guess if you know the song you can just play it but in theory the speed you play had to match the count.