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41.51How do you know you have internalized it?

You can:

  • speak while playing
  • improvise without losing the bar
  • start phrases on beat 5
  • rest for a full bar
  • re-enter correctly
  • recognize where beat 1 is without counting aloud

That is actual meter fluency.