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Where a club record goes when 128 BPM is not quite enough. Tech house, techno and hard house mostly live between 128 and 132, and 130 is the middle of that argument.
Beats per minute
130
Press Space to start and stop · ↑ ↓ to nudge off 130 · or
The tempo
At 0.462 seconds a beat, 130 is only two BPM above the club standard, and that gap matters more than it looks: it is roughly the span a DJ can cover on the pitch fader, which is exactly why so much dance music is written inside it. Push much past 132 and the genre changes name.
Where you hear it
Wondering whether a particular track is 130 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.
Practice note: If a 128 BPM sketch feels flat, try it at 130 before you add anything to it. Two BPM is often the entire fix, and it costs nothing to test.
Presets
Every one opens the metronome already running at that BPM.
Need something in between? The full metronome covers 40 to 300 BPM.
MagicBPM for iPhone and Android
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.
Good to know
Two clicks past the club standard, with noticeably more push. A beat lands every 0.462 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 1.846 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 97 bars. Press Play above to hear it.
130 BPM is fast, in the lower half of Allegro. It is quicker than the 120 BPM default and slower than the 140 BPM of trap and dubstep.
Tech house, techno and hard house; Trance at its slower end, before it climbs towards 138; Festival edits, which are often 128 BPM originals nudged up. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.
This page opens already set to 130 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.
