The Shredding Formula

[Josh Redstone]

I was just wondering if there was anyone out there knew if there was a formula that tells you how many notes your playing per minute as opposed to beats per minute and what kind of notes your playing. For example, playing sixteenth notes at 200 bpm would be how many notes per minute?
I only ask cause I suck at math. If anyone can help that would be great.

[TheDirt]

BPM: Divide BPM by 60 to get beats per second. A "beat" is equal to a quarter note. Multiply by two for 8ths, and 4 for sixteenths. That gets 13.333 notes per second for 16ths at 200 BPM. That's pretty fast ;)

Alternate Solution: hook up your guitar to your comp via line in and a 1/4 in. -> 1/8 in. converter, or plug a mic in your comp and mic your amp. Using Sound Recorder, or some other recording program, record a set pattern to which you know the # of notes (like Am scale pattern from 5th fret low E string to 10th fret B string, 15 notes). Record yourself playing these 15 notes, or some other pattern, then divide the notes you played by the seconds it took you to play them, and you have BPS.

[David_C]

or you can buy cakewalk homestudio 9.0 for 59bucks and it does it for you automatically.

[Josh Redstone]

Cool. Thanx for the help.

[mule]

surely it depends on whether the music is 4/4 as well

[Josh Redstone]

I know, but when I do my speed excercises its always in 4/4 time to my metronome. Sometimes I do hand stretching exercisees in triplets but I'm not counting the notes I'm playing then.