Hi, I have been drumming for 16 years now and I was pretty much self taught. Recently, I have been teaching a friend to play and she’s made good progress. She learned how to play boulevard of ‘broken dreams’ and ‘seven nation army’ and can play along with the songs pretty well. Now She wants to learn ‘come as you are’ by nirvana. This song is pretty complicated compared to what we have been playing, and she’s been struggling with the intro beat but can now play it at tempo. The problem is when she tries to play along with the song, she gets all mixed up and can’t play the first beat. We’ve done several things to try and help her, such as: slowing down the song and playing the beat without the song but to a metronome. She can do both of those but can’t play along to the song at the normal tempo.

I’m just wondering if there’s another way to help her play with the song. This is my first time teaching and I don’t know what is the best way to teach these things or if there is one.