This is our beginner exercise for time feel, we start with the basics, learning to control motion and use the body as an instrument of time keeping.

When we describe someone who can’t dance, the go to phrase is “They have no sense of rhythm”.

Simply put, you can’t move in time well with a poor sense of rhythm, however, we can develop our rhythm by trying to move in time well.

I’m not asking you to dance around your hotel room, although that works, what I will recommend is simple moving in time and/or an understanding of how to conduct.

If you feel that doing a simple shuffle like that described in the video is of no use, then it might be of use to know that there’s a class at Berklee on moving to music for musicianship and the great drummer Antonio Sanchez praised the benefits of this class.