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150 BPM metronome.

Hardstyle is built at 150 BPM, and a lot of fast rock and punk lands there without meaning to. It is also one of the friendliest tempos to count: 0.4 seconds a beat, 1.6 seconds a bar.

Beats per minute

150

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The tempo

What 150 BPM feels like.

The arithmetic is unusually clean, which makes 150 a good reference point. Four beats fill 1.6 seconds, ten bars fill sixteen seconds, and a three-minute track runs to 112 bars. Counted in half time it is 75 BPM, which is where the kick and the bass of a hardstyle track actually sit while the kick pattern rides on top.

Marking
Allegro
120 to 156 BPM
One beat
0.400 sec
One 4/4 bar
1.600 sec
Bars in 3 min
112

Where you hear it

Music that sits at 150 BPM.

Wondering whether a particular track is 150 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.

Practice note: When a passage stops being playable at 150, set the click to 75 and put it on beats one and three. Half the clicks, same tempo, and suddenly there is room to think.

Presets

Other common tempos

Every one opens the metronome already running at that BPM.

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

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Take 150 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

150 BPM questions

What does 150 BPM sound like?

Fast and insistent, with a beat every four tenths of a second. A beat lands every 0.400 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 1.600 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 112 bars. Press Play above to hear it.

Is 150 BPM fast or slow?

150 BPM is fast. It sits high in Allegro, two and a half beats a second, and it is where most listeners stop counting every beat and start counting every other one.

What kind of music is 150 BPM?

Hardstyle and hard dance, which is written at 150 almost by definition; Fast punk, pop punk and rock; Metal played in cut time, felt as 75. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.

How do I set a metronome to 150 BPM?

This page opens already set to 150 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.