20–400 BPM, any time signature, five accent levels, subdivisions, swing, count-in, speed and gap trainers.
90 BPM means 90 beats every minute: one beat every 0.67 seconds (667 ms), or 1.5 beats a second. In classical terms it is Andante, at a walking pace (76–107 BPM).
You often hear tempos around 90 BPM in hip-hop, R&B, funk and many film songs. The metronome above is already set to 90 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) | 2667 ms | 22.5 |
| Half note | 1333 ms | 45 |
| Dotted quarter | 1000 ms | 60 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 667 ms | 90 |
| Dotted eighth | 500 ms | 120 |
| Eighth note | 333 ms | 180 |
| Eighth-note triplet | 222 ms | 270 |
| Sixteenth note | 167 ms | 360 |
Set a delay pedal to 500 ms for the popular dotted-eighth echo, or 667 ms for a quarter-note echo, and it sits in time at 90 BPM.
90 BPM is a comfortable practice tempo for most strumming patterns and chord changes. Sixteenth notes here are 6 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 0.67 seconds (667 ms), 1.5 beats a second. Its Italian tempo marking is Andante, at a walking pace.
Tempos around 90 BPM are common in hip-hop, R&B, funk and many film songs.
In 4/4 a bar has four beats, so it lasts 2.67 seconds. In 3/4 it lasts 2 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.