Andante tempo metronome
“Walking”: a relaxed walking pace, neither slow nor fast. About 76–108 BPM; the metronome is set to 88 BPM.
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Note lengths at 88 BPM
| Note | Length | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 2,727 ms | 22 |
| Half note | 1,364 ms | 44 |
| Quarter note | 682 ms | 88 |
| Eighth note | 341 ms | 176 |
| Eighth-note triplet | 227 ms | 264 |
| Sixteenth note | 170 ms | 352 |
With the quarter note at 88 BPM. Handy for delay settings too: a quarter-note echo is 682 ms, a dotted-eighth echo 511 ms.
Practice tip
A relaxed mid-tempo: ballads, slower pop songs and most beginner exercises. Once the passage is clean here, raise it 4–5 BPM at a time.
Other tempos
Time signatures and tempo markings
Frequently asked questions
How many milliseconds is one beat at 88 BPM?
60,000 / 88 = 681.8 ms per quarter note; an eighth note is 340.9 ms and a sixteenth is 170.5 ms.
How fast is 88 BPM?
1.5 beats per second (1.5 Hz). In Italian tempo terms that's Andante.
How do I speed up gradually?
Turn on the metronome's tempo trainer: set a target tempo, a step and how many bars between steps, and it speeds up on its own.
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