20–400 BPM, any time signature, five accent levels, subdivisions, swing, count-in, speed and gap trainers.
85 BPM means 85 beats every minute: one beat every 0.71 seconds (706 ms), or 1.42 beats a second. In classical terms it is Andante, at a walking pace (76–107 BPM).
You often hear tempos around 85 BPM in hip-hop, lo-fi, mid-tempo ballads and laid-back rock. The metronome above is already set to 85 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) | 2824 ms | 21.25 |
| Half note | 1412 ms | 42.5 |
| Dotted quarter | 1059 ms | 56.67 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 706 ms | 85 |
| Dotted eighth | 529 ms | 113.33 |
| Eighth note | 353 ms | 170 |
| Eighth-note triplet | 235 ms | 255 |
| Sixteenth note | 176 ms | 340 |
Set a delay pedal to 529 ms for the popular dotted-eighth echo, or 706 ms for a quarter-note echo, and it sits in time at 85 BPM.
85 BPM is a comfortable practice tempo for most strumming patterns and chord changes. Sixteenth notes here are 5.67 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 0.71 seconds (706 ms), 1.42 beats a second. Its Italian tempo marking is Andante, at a walking pace.
Tempos around 85 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 2.82 seconds. In 3/4 it lasts 2.12 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.