20–400 BPM, any time signature, five accent levels, subdivisions, swing, count-in, speed and gap trainers.
100 BPM means 100 beats every minute: one beat every 0.6 seconds (600 ms), or 1.67 beats a second. In classical terms it is Andante, at a walking pace (76–107 BPM).
You often hear tempos around 100 BPM in pop, funk, soft rock and filmi dholak grooves. The metronome above is already set to 100 BPM in 4/4: press Start, and change the time signature, accents, subdivisions or sound if your song needs it.
| Note | Length | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Whole note (one bar of 4/4) | 2400 ms | 25 |
| Half note | 1200 ms | 50 |
| Dotted quarter | 900 ms | 66.67 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 600 ms | 100 |
| Dotted eighth | 450 ms | 133.33 |
| Eighth note | 300 ms | 200 |
| Eighth-note triplet | 200 ms | 300 |
| Sixteenth note | 150 ms | 400 |
Set a delay pedal to 450 ms for the popular dotted-eighth echo, or 600 ms for a quarter-note echo, and it sits in time at 100 BPM.
100 BPM is a comfortable practice tempo for most strumming patterns and chord changes. Sixteenth notes here are 6.67 notes a second, so it is also a good checkpoint for scale runs: once they feel easy, raise the tempo by 4 BPM at a time.
One beat every 0.6 seconds (600 ms), 1.67 beats a second. Its Italian tempo marking is Andante, at a walking pace.
Tempos around 100 BPM are common in pop, funk, soft rock and filmi dholak grooves.
In 4/4 a bar has four beats, so it lasts 2.4 seconds. In 3/4 it lasts 1.8 seconds.
Yes. It is slow enough to play cleanly and listen to your timing. When it feels easy three times in a row, go up 4 to 8 BPM.