Jon--
I think you're where I'm at. You learn by ear, so your impulse is to say, "I've got to get the time down." My ear is evidently worse than yours, so I say, "Now what's that pitch again?" I've never known any two musicians with the same set of strengths and weaknesses. We're all different and if Kat catches us off-guard with a question like this we can only give "our" answer. I don't much like relative truths, but maybe in this case that's all we can get--????
CC