Counting with the metronome to me is like mentally saying words when you read a book. In reading, once you break that internal verbilization barrier, you can increase reading speed exponentially. In playing music, if you want to truly be fluid, you have to trust your feeling of the beat. At first you may be wrong more than right, but sooner or later you need to shed the crutch and trust yourself. You may be surprised to know that subconsciously, you really do feel the beat but you haven't learned to trust yourself yet.
It's like singers who use a lyric sheet all the time because they don't know the words. They won't really know until they give up the crutch.
All IMO BTW.
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