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The time for 32 beats might come out on your stopwatch as 16.00 seconds. For The Arkansas Traveler this would be 16 bars, each with 2 beats, making a total of 32 beats. You might choose the first half of a fiddle tune. Play the recording, and time the beats over a selected section.You will need a digital stopwatch and a calculator to work out the speed accurately. If you are learning a piece of music from a recording it can help to know how fast it is being played on the record. For all my tabs the metronome setting means: 'Set your metronome at this speed.' An exception is waltz notation, which uses 3 quarter-notes (crotchets) per bar the metronome speed is given in quarter-note (crotchet) beats. I nearly always write bluegrass tabs in 4/4 time, and give metronome speeds in half-note (minim) beats per minute.

They should sound exactly the same.īTW, if you are unfamiliar with MusEdit playback, please see more details on my tablature page.

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Click to download the 4/4 example of The Arkansas Traveler (bpm = 240 quarter notes per minute) and the 2/4 example (bpm = 120 quarter-notes per minute). If you are now totally confused, my sincere apologies! You may find it helpful to listen to the above examples in MusEdit playback. However, you should still set your own metronome to 120 bpm, which is now the half-note (minim) beat (two half-notes to the bar). This is because in 4/4 time there are four (not two) quarter-notes to the bar. The quarter-note (crotchet) speed has now doubled to 240 bpm. Here is the same lick from The Arkansas Traveler, played at the same speed, but notated in 4/4 time. However in practice tab writers usually find it more convenient to use 4/4 time. This is within the normal range found on a metronome if a fiddle tune, say, is notated in 2/4 time, as in the above example. The reason for the inflated metronome speed entered in tab programs is that the program always measures the quarter-note (crotchet) speed. Dividing this by two gives you a pretty standard figure of 120 bpm (allegro).

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This is way off your metronome scale! Simply divide the figure by two to get the correct setting for your domestic metronome.įor example you might be told to play a fiddle tune at 240 beats per minute. If you practise at home with a metronome you are essentially listening for this timekeeping beat set by the bass.Ĭonfusion can arise because tablature/notation playback programs like MusEdit and TablEdit often use very high metronome settings, sometimes over 300 bpm. If you already play in a band you will know that the bass, which effectively acts as the band's metronome, usually plays two beats to the bar. When you are playing the lick with your metronome set at 120 bpm there will therefore be two metronome beats/clicks per bar. There are two quarter-notes (crotchets) to the bar, as the lick is notated in 2/4 time. In this case the quarter-note (crotchet) speed is 120 beats per minute. Here is a lick from The Arkansas Traveler, complete with metronome speed: Just set your metronome to the speed given for the tablature and play along with the beat. What do these speeds mean? Well, on a traditional wind-up metronome you will see a range of speeds up to 208 beats per minute (bpm). Metronome speeds are often given for pieces in tablature and regular music notation.

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