I'm able to count semiquavers at the moment using "1 e & u" etc, but I cant seem to find how you count demisemiquavers anywhere in my books or on the net. Whats the standard procedure?

I don't

Seriously though, I just count the smallest beat I can and make sure I get to the one I'm supposed to be on by the time the next beat happens. If that makes sense.

Don't count them, just space them evenly between crotchets and it should work out alright!

Hmmm I've been wondering this too...

Hopefully someone has the answer....

I think so long as the demi-semi's added up to either a quaver or a crotchet or something then I'd count it that way and make sure they were even...but I'd get sooo confused if they didn't, or if they were dotted

You need to subdivide your basic beat, and then put the usual counts in. So if you count semiquavers O-one a-and, tw-wo a-and etc, then do exactly the same thing with demisemiquavers, but using a quaver beat instead of a crotchet beat. There is no rule saying you have to count in crotchets! You could count in semiquavers and just use one-and-two-and etc. It depends how fast the music is going and whether there are masses of strings of demis, or just an odd grouping amongst longer note values.

I take the smallest note and count in those, OR sometimes I go 1-2-3-4, 2-2-3-4, 3-2-3-4, 4-2-3-4 IYSWIM? so you are still counting the number of beats but not trying to break down the words one, two, three and four into smaller and smaller elements, and then you can add 'and' in between the numbers to break it down further.

DSQs are hard cos there's so many of them!

From playing for dance classes, quavers were always counted "1 and 2 and", triple beats "1 and a 2 and a" and semiquavers "1 and and a 2 and and a"