Hallo Les B, you can start as 1,2- 1,2,3,4, but it is not always like this, are you playing in 4/4 , 2/4 or 3/4 for example. Go on counting for every song I am in 5 member band TAMÓRA and we count in every song, and the songs are going better than they used to do. Get your band to count.All the best skarpi Iceland.