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100 BPM metronome.

The round number. 100 beats take exactly one minute, which makes it the easiest tempo of all to reason about, and a very common landing spot for pop, rock and country.

Beats per minute

100

Press Space to start and stop · ↑ ↓ to nudge off 100 · or

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The tempo

What 100 BPM feels like.

A beat every 0.6 seconds is brisk without being fast. The arithmetic is the real appeal: 100 beats is a minute, 25 bars of 4/4 is a minute, and a three-minute song is 75 bars. If you are sketching an arrangement on paper before you record it, 100 saves you a calculator.

Marking
Andante
76 to 108 BPM
One beat
0.600 sec
One 4/4 bar
2.400 sec
Bars in 3 min
75

Where you hear it

Music that sits at 100 BPM.

Wondering whether a particular track is 100 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.

Practice note: Use 100 as a checkpoint. If a part is clean at 100 but falls apart at 120, the problem is almost always the left hand or the picking pattern, not the tempo itself.

Presets

Other common tempos

Every one opens the metronome already running at that BPM.

Need something in between? The full metronome covers 40 to 220 BPM.

MagicBPM for iPhone and Android

Take 100 BPM with you.

The app pairs the same metronome with a real-time BPM detector that hears the music around you, so you can lift a tempo off a track and practice to it straight away.

  • Subdivisions: practice against eighths, triplets or sixteenths, with the in-between clicks tucked under the beat
  • Compound time that counts properly: 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 group in threes, and 7/8 lets you pick 2+2+3 or 3+2+2
  • Pick your click: acoustic out of the box, with woodblock, claves, cowbell and more sound packs in Pro
  • Haptics on every beat, with a firmer pulse on the downbeat
  • Keeps clicking even when your phone is silenced
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Good to know

100 BPM questions

What does 100 BPM sound like?

Brisk and even: 100 beats fill exactly one minute, 0.6 seconds each. A beat lands every 0.600 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 2.400 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 75 bars. Press Play above to hear it.

Is 100 BPM fast or slow?

100 BPM is moderate. It is the top of Andante, just under Moderato, and noticeably slower than dance music at 120 to 128.

What kind of music is 100 BPM?

Pop, rock and country at a mid-to-brisk tempo; Funk and soul with a firm backbeat; Arrangement sketching, where round-number bar maths helps. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.

How do I set a metronome to 100 BPM?

This page opens already set to 100 BPM, so press Play or hit the spacebar. To move off it, drag the slider, type a number into the BPM box, or use the arrow keys to nudge a beat at a time.

Measuring instead of setting? Use the tap tempo tool to find a song’s BPM.