Guys. I am so lost. I've been writing music for years now but I never fully finished most of my ideas cause I am scared of writing instrument parts that I am not familiar with. Now that I am trying to write drum parts for all of my guitar songs...I am so confused with my weird time signatures. I don't know if this is a normal issue non-drummers run into or if I'm just counting wrong, but I cannot figure out what the fuck I did when writing these. I can't tell if I need to just rewrite some parts? But anyways, this is what's happening:
I'm using a metronome with a time signature counter (just in 4/4) to track where I want my beats to be. I swear most of these songs are just in 4/4 because they seem simple? but CONSISTENTLY my chord change with feel like it naturally comes in on a complete "off beat" for the 4/4 counting. I have tried changing the time signature and that doesn't feel natural either.
Is there anyway to calculate something or fix this? Like maybe the time signature changes but honestly I can't tell where or when 😭 everyone just says "just count!" And I feel so dumb.