Farview
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They are playing at 80bpm. They have set the metronome to play 1/8 notes, they didn't change the tempo of the song.Some professionals like to play for example an 80 beat per minute song in 4/4 with the metronome at 160. Are they playing at 80 or 160?
What you have to set the metronome to to get what you want to hear does not determine the tempo of the song. If that same 80bpm song was a shuffle and the guy wanted to hear triplets for a click, he would set the metronome at 240. That wouldn't make the tempo of the song 240 bpm...