That's a great tool, #!
We have a gifted choir director who's able to get us old choir people to catch onto such things while she's directing. She doesn't just move her hands to direct - she dances with her whole body. But when she's not with us, the understanding fades. The metronome # found helps my understanding a lot, although I'm not sure that I'm a firm believer yet that there's a whole hell of a lot of difference between 2/2 and 2/4 and 4/4. Maybe we could say 2/2 is like dribbling a basketball, and 4/4 like marching [hut, 2, 3, 4], but 2/4?
-Joe-

I combined the two threads. I hope that makes more sense of things. -Joe-