I cannot play on time. Not in terms of missing beats, or losing the click in the middle of a song, but in that my timing is almost always off. I compared my played notes to the click in the DAW, and I’m usually rushing, sometimes by 30-40ms. I remember Adam Neely said once that 10ms is barely acceptable, so yeah.
I tried dividing the distance between clicks in my head, doubling the metronome tempo, moving with the beat, consciously conpensating for the rush, nothing helped. Therefore, my questions - how’s your timing doing? What can I do to improve mine?
Get some sticks and a practice pad if you don’t have access to a drum kit and learn some rudiments.
Bare in mind that you don’t always need to be playing exactly on the beat and that notes in between the main ones are often pushed or pulled a little depending on what the song needs. Looking at a computer screen isn’t that helpful to me, how does it sound?