My wish is that the style descriptions would be clearer. I know it is difficult to make a description that will ring the same in every ear, but I have never been able to find the style I have in my head with less than 2 hours of sampling style after style after style. And the ones that have "example song would be"... I have never heard one style that the example song sounds ANYTHING like the style. I don't have examples of that right now and I am not about to head up there at midnight to check, but I have yet to find one style that actually sounds like the example song.

It's just really time consuming to go through 85-100 styles to find what I want and I wish there was a way to describe them better. That would be difficult considering we all have different terms for similar concepts.

Like if I said "hi hat 1/8th notes right on the square", which is what I tell my drummers (and they know what I mean because we worked together a lot - not pushed, not pulled, not syncopated - right SQUARE on the 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +). Because that's the term I always knew to mean that, I don't know how else to say it or see it defined. I use terms like square, swing, bouncy and such. I suppose some of my problem is my not listening to enough different kinds of music for so long. Like when you guys talk about "pushes"... Well, they are not pushes, they are pulls. You are pulling notes forward with a ^, not pushing it back. Why not call it "anticipation" and be accurate?

Just as a test, when you see the word "train" used in a style, tell me what example song your brain flashes to.

My brain hears "CHUG-a-chuga CHUG-a-chuga CHUG-a-chuga CHUG-a-chuga" like the rhythm guitar in Folsom Prison Blues, also with kind a 16th note "almost tambourine shaking" feel on the high hat ride.

And there's the rub. How could anybody know what my brain hears and what my words mean by that description?

Also remember, though, that the voices in my head speak to me in foreign languages I don't understand.....