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Prestissimo, and further than a mechanical metronome will go: the classic Maelzel scale stops at 208. At 220 BPM a beat lasts 0.273 seconds, and the click is less a pulse than a tone.
Beats per minute
220
Press Space to start and stop · ↑ ↓ to nudge off 220 · or
The tempo
Tempos this high are counted in two or in four, never beat by beat. Bebop contrafacts are taken here and felt at 110; thrash and speedcore are written here and felt in bars. If you need a click above 220, the metronome on this site goes to 300, and so does the one in the app.
Where you hear it
Counted in half time, this is the same music as 110 BPM: the click marks beats one and three instead of all four. If a part at 220 feels frantic, try the half-time click and play across it.
Wondering whether a particular track is 220 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.
Practice note: If 220 turns to mush, click at 110 and play the subdivision against it. Feeling two strong beats a bar rather than four is what makes the tempo playable.
Presets
Every one opens the metronome already running at that BPM.
Need something in between? The full metronome covers 40 to 300 BPM.
MagicBPM for iPhone and Android
The app pairs the same metronome with a real-time BPM detector that hears the music around you, so you can lift a tempo off a track and practice to it straight away.
Good to know
Past the end of a traditional metronome dial. Almost four beats a second. A beat lands every 0.273 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 1.091 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 165 bars. Press Play above to hear it.
220 BPM is about as fast as tempo markings go. It is Prestissimo, past the top of a traditional metronome dial, and exactly double the moderate 110 BPM of a disco or amapiano track.
Bebop standards played at speed, counted in two at 110; Thrash, speed metal and grindcore; Speedcore and gabber. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.
Counted in half time, 220 BPM is 110 BPM, with the click marking beats one and three instead of every beat. Both readings describe the same music, which is why two people, or two apps, can give different answers for one song and both be right.
This page opens already set to 220 BPM, so press Play or hit the spacebar. To move off it, drag the slider, type a number into the BPM box, or use the arrow keys to nudge a beat at a time.
Measuring instead of setting? Use the tap tempo tool to find a song’s BPM.
