Beats per minute

110

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The tempo

What 110 BPM feels like.

At 110 BPM, each beat lasts about 0.545 seconds and a bar of four beats lasts about 2.182 seconds. The click marks the beat; you can play more than one note between clicks. Tempo markings and genre examples are guides, so choose a pace that suits your music.

Marking
Moderato
108 to 120 BPM
One beat
0.545 sec
One 4/4 bar
2.182 sec
Bars in 3 min
82

Where you hear it

Music that sits at 110 BPM.

Double it and you land on 220 BPM, which is how a lot of this material is actually written. Same pulse, twice the counting.

Wondering whether a particular track is 110 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.

Practice note: Try a passage at 100, 110, and 120. Choose the pace where you can stay relaxed and play evenly.

Presets

Other common tempos

Every one opens the metronome set and ready to play at that BPM.

Need something in between? The full metronome covers 40 to 300 BPM.

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Take 110 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

110 BPM questions

What does 110 BPM sound like?

A lively pace, between 100 and 120 BPM. A beat lands every 0.545 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 2.182 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 82 bars. Press Play above to hear it.

Is 110 BPM fast or slow?

110 BPM is a moderate pulse. How it feels also depends on the rhythm, subdivisions, and whether you count every beat or every other beat.

What kind of music is 110 BPM?

Disco grooves; pop arrangements; gradual speed practice. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.

Is 110 BPM the same as 220 BPM?

Counted at double speed, 110 BPM is 220 BPM, which is how the same pulse is often written. Both counts can describe the same passage, depending on which pulse you follow.

How do I set a metronome to 110 BPM?

This page opens already set to 110 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.