20–400 BPM, any time signature, five accent levels, subdivisions, swing, count-in, speed and gap trainers.
80 BPM means 80 beats every minute: one beat every 0.75 seconds (750 ms), or 1.33 beats a second. In classical terms it is Andante, at a walking pace (76–107 BPM).
You often hear tempos around 80 BPM in hip-hop, lo-fi, mid-tempo ballads and laid-back rock. The metronome above is already set to 80 BPM in 4/4: press Start, and change the time signature, accents, subdivisions or sound if your song needs it.
| Note | Length | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Whole note (one bar of 4/4) | 3000 ms | 20 |
| Half note | 1500 ms | 40 |
| Dotted quarter | 1125 ms | 53.33 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 750 ms | 80 |
| Dotted eighth | 563 ms | 106.67 |
| Eighth note | 375 ms | 160 |
| Eighth-note triplet | 250 ms | 240 |
| Sixteenth note | 188 ms | 320 |
Set a delay pedal to 563 ms for the popular dotted-eighth echo, or 750 ms for a quarter-note echo, and it sits in time at 80 BPM.
80 BPM is a comfortable practice tempo for most strumming patterns and chord changes. Sixteenth notes here are 5.33 notes a second, so it is also a good checkpoint for scale runs: once they feel easy, raise the tempo by 4 BPM at a time.
One beat every 0.75 seconds (750 ms), 1.33 beats a second. Its Italian tempo marking is Andante, at a walking pace.
Tempos around 80 BPM are common in hip-hop, lo-fi, mid-tempo ballads and laid-back rock.
In 4/4 a bar has four beats, so it lasts 3 seconds. In 3/4 it lasts 2.25 seconds.
Yes. It is slow enough to play cleanly and listen to your timing. When it feels easy three times in a row, go up 4 to 8 BPM.