20–400 BPM, any time signature, five accent levels, subdivisions, swing, count-in, speed and gap trainers.
150 BPM means 150 beats every minute: one beat every 0.4 seconds (400 ms), or 2.5 beats a second. In classical terms it is Allegro, fast and bright (120–155 BPM).
You often hear tempos around 150 BPM in rock, ska and country two-step, and trap felt at half this speed. The metronome above is already set to 150 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) | 1600 ms | 37.5 |
| Half note | 800 ms | 75 |
| Dotted quarter | 600 ms | 100 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 400 ms | 150 |
| Dotted eighth | 300 ms | 200 |
| Eighth note | 200 ms | 300 |
| Eighth-note triplet | 133 ms | 450 |
| Sixteenth note | 100 ms | 600 |
Set a delay pedal to 300 ms for the popular dotted-eighth echo, or 400 ms for a quarter-note echo, and it sits in time at 150 BPM.
150 BPM is fast. Rather than starting here, use the speed trainer: begin around 112 BPM (three quarters of the target) and add 4 BPM every 4 bars until you reach 150. Sixteenth notes at this tempo are 10 notes a second.
One beat every 0.4 seconds (400 ms), 2.5 beats a second. Its Italian tempo marking is Allegro, fast and bright.
Tempos around 150 BPM are common in rock, ska and country two-step, and trap felt at half this speed.
In 4/4 a bar has four beats, so it lasts 1.6 seconds. In 3/4 it lasts 1.2 seconds.
It is a performance tempo for most players. Work up to it with the speed trainer, starting around 112 BPM.