The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104399 Message #2140621
Posted By: john f weldon
04-Sep-07 - 11:06 AM
Thread Name: The speed of the Fiddle
Subject: RE: The speed of the Fiddle
I once clocked some banjo players, both clawhammer and bluegrass. The fastest was about 349 beats/minute which is almost 700 individual notes. That's almost 12 notes per second, which, in animator-speak, is 2 frames per note. At that speed, most of the notes are not exactly meanful, more just rhythm.
(I note that prestissimo is usually defined as anything more than 200 bpm)