High BPM metronome: 260, 300 and far beyond
Opens at 260 BPM and goes up to 1000. Pick a tempo, see how many notes per second it really means, and train toward it in +1 BPM steps.
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.
Jump to a fast tempo
Set the tempo
Browser metronomes usually stop between 200 and 300 BPM. Here the range goes to 1000 BPM, and the click is the real beat rather than half the tempo with a doubled subdivision, so accents and a trainer step of +1 BPM still mean what they say.
How fast that really is: notes per second
| BPM | Quarter notes | Eighths | Triplets | Sixteenths |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 220 | 3.7 | 7.3 | 11 | 14.7 |
| 240 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 |
| 260 | 4.3 | 8.7 | 13 | 17.3 |
| 300 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 |
| 400 | 6.7 | 13.3 | 20 | 26.7 |
| 500 | 8.3 | 16.7 | 25 | 33.3 |
| 1000 | 16.7 | 33.3 | 50 | 66.7 |
What is actually played up there
- 220 to 260 BPM: palm-muted eighth-note thrash riffs, fast punk and hardcore, bebop heads.
- Around 200 to 280 BPM in sixteenths: tremolo picking and the fastest blast beats, 13 to 19 notes a second.
- Above 300 BPM: speedcore, and drills on one hand or one string in short bursts.
- Up to 1000 BPM: eighth-based meters, where a modest-feeling riff in 7/8 already asks for a big number, and tempo experiments.
Getting there without tension
Short bursts beat long struggles. Use the speed trainer with +1 BPM steps, stop when the sound gets stiff, and come back tomorrow. There is a page for the classic target too: the 260 BPM metronome. The method is in the practice guide.