Learning Rhythms

What was so hard to play last seminars was how to get the rhythm down without speeding up. Also when everybody was off beat it clearly messed me up. I was so confused. What did ultimately helped me was looking at the other people's hands and tried to match it. Also the same with Mr. K, when Baba PC started playing the cowbell it helped so much. I was really happy and proud of myself when I played the break? correctly and he gave me a high five. This also helped me. :)