Well, unless I'm not getting this, a lot of these responses are again talking about timing as opposed to rhythm. The 5/4 stuff is definitely about rhythm, but this stuff about dancing or moving or playing a solo a little too fast is more about timing. To me rhythm is about keeping the bars lined up. For instance, I hear demos of people who lose the rhythm and somehow start playing the melody on the 3 of the bar instead of the 1. So suddenly the measure is going 3 4 1 2 instead of 1 2 3 4. I mean, the timing is there, in that the person is staying with the beat, he's just on the wrong beat.

I was doing a demo for someone and he was a very basic guitar player. Well, he'd written this song not even knowing that he was switching from 3.4 to 4.4. He'd just "strum strum strum strum" the guitar, and sing along with it, and that strum strum was very steady, but he was just all over the place as far as beats per measure. I'd say he had timing, much as a metranome has timing, click click click, but he had no rhythm.