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hunter1801
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hunter1801
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06/27/2007 6:07 pm
Whats the easiest way to think of tempo, and know how fast you should be playing? I'm just learning about it so right now all I really know is: 60 bpm = 1 second beats (because there are 60 seconds in a minute) and obviously 120 is double, ect. But for anything else, I wouldn't really know how to calculate that and play it accurately. Like for 260 bpm, I know that it would be 260 beats in 60s, so that would be 4.3 bps (thanks to my calculator hehe). I don't see how you would be able to figure that out in your head though.