Rick - how do you determine if they can hear good timing from a recording? Have them tap the beat or count it?   It seems he's gonna have to lock up to something.

Maybe if he recorded himself playing in time with his barefingered "clawhammer" style and then tried to figure out where he's getting off with the Scruggs rolls? It did seem that he "chucked" on the backbeat in OK time.

Unfortunately he lives about 50 miles from here on a ranch, and just doesn't get to play with other people. We see him twice a year. But he's a nice fellow and I was hoping to somehow help him overcome this.