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I often find that I get lost when counting rhythms.   When I was in band, they taught us to count this way:

one-e-and-a two-e-and-a three-e-and-a four-e-and-a

The problem comes when you skip a lot of downbeats, it’s hard to remember which beat you’re on.  I’m going to try counting with this system for a while:

one-e-and-a

two-ti-tan-tuh

three-de-dan-duh

four-ve-van-vuh

I used the version of the closest consonant that is easy to say fast.