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128 BPM metronome.

The club standard. House, tech house and big-room EDM are built at 128 BPM, close enough to 120 to feel familiar and quick enough to keep a floor moving all night.

Beats per minute

128

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The tempo

What 128 BPM feels like.

A beat every 0.47 seconds gives a four-on-the-floor kick its drive without tipping into techno territory. 128 is also convenient to mix: it divides cleanly into 32-bar phrases, which is why so much dance music is arranged in blocks of 16 and 32 bars and why DJ sets so often sit within a beat or two of it.

Marking
Allegro
120 to 156 BPM
One beat
0.469 sec
One 4/4 bar
1.875 sec
Bars in 3 min
96

Where you hear it

Music that sits at 128 BPM.

Wondering whether a particular track is 128 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.

Practice note: When two club tracks refuse to beatmatch, check the phrasing rather than the tempo. At 128 a 32-bar phrase is exactly one minute, so a phrase that starts in the wrong place is easy to spot.

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 128 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

128 BPM questions

What does 128 BPM sound like?

The club tempo: fast, even, and built for a four-on-the-floor kick. A beat lands every 0.469 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 1.875 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 96 bars. Press Play above to hear it.

Is 128 BPM fast or slow?

128 BPM is fast, in the lower half of Allegro. It is quicker than pop at 120 and slower than techno at 140.

What kind of music is 128 BPM?

House, tech house and progressive house; Big-room EDM and festival main stages; DJ sets built around 32-bar phrasing. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.

How do I set a metronome to 128 BPM?

This page opens already set to 128 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.