20–400 BPM, any time signature, five accent levels, subdivisions, swing, count-in, speed and gap trainers.
128 BPM means 128 beats every minute: one beat every 0.47 seconds (469 ms), or 2.13 beats a second. In classical terms it is Allegro, fast and bright (120–155 BPM).
You often hear tempos around 128 BPM in dance pop, disco, house and marches. The metronome above is already set to 128 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) | 1875 ms | 32 |
| Half note | 938 ms | 64 |
| Dotted quarter | 703 ms | 85.33 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 469 ms | 128 |
| Dotted eighth | 352 ms | 170.67 |
| Eighth note | 234 ms | 256 |
| Eighth-note triplet | 156 ms | 384 |
| Sixteenth note | 117 ms | 512 |
Set a delay pedal to 352 ms for the popular dotted-eighth echo, or 469 ms for a quarter-note echo, and it sits in time at 128 BPM.
128 BPM is fast. Rather than starting here, use the speed trainer: begin around 96 BPM (three quarters of the target) and add 4 BPM every 4 bars until you reach 128. Sixteenth notes at this tempo are 8.53 notes a second.
One beat every 0.47 seconds (469 ms), 2.13 beats a second. Its Italian tempo marking is Allegro, fast and bright.
Tempos around 128 BPM are common in dance pop, disco, house and marches.
In 4/4 a bar has four beats, so it lasts 1.88 seconds. In 3/4 it lasts 1.41 seconds.
It is a performance tempo for most players. Work up to it with the speed trainer, starting around 96 BPM.