I'd been wondering when someone would come in with a suggestion about the speech rhythm of the words, so well done, Newport Boy! (Pity you then suggested a song in waltz time, i.e. 3/4, but then counted it out in 4/4! :-))

That feel for the music, particularly in song, really should come from the underlying rhythm of the words, and if initially she can exaggerate that first beat of the bar with the words, and to a slightly lesser extent the 2nd beat of a 4/4 tune and the 4th beat of a 6/8 tune, but again with the spoken rhythm of the words, she should gradually be able to get it. As she has in the past read music, she should understand what 3/4, 4/4 and 6/8 (the most common time signatures) are. But she must have had a crap music teacher all those years ago if she wasn't taught about accentuating those beats!

Barbara