260 BPM metronome
Already set to 260 BPM: press Start. Below are the notes per second at this tempo and a plan to get there one BPM at a time.
Tempo and playback
260BPM
Prestissimo
Count-in–
Bar –Beat –
Or press T
BPM counts the beat unit of the time signature (here: the quarter note). Subdivision adds clicks between beats.
- Accent
- Normal
- Mute
Grouping accents the first beat of every group. You can still change any beat above.
What 260 BPM means
| Note value | Notes per second |
|---|---|
| Quarter notes | 4.3 |
| Eighths | 8.7 |
| Triplets | 13 |
| Sixteenths | 17.3 |
A click every 0.23 seconds. In eighths that is the upper end of thrash riffing; in sixteenths it is tremolo picking and blast-beat territory, more than most players can sustain for long.
How to reach 260 BPM
Load a setting
The 240 to 260 plan is 21 stages of 4 bars, 84 bars in about a minute and a half in 4/4. Run it once or twice, not ten times. Need a different tempo? The high BPM metronome goes up to 1000 BPM, and the speed trainer runs any plan.