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170 BPM metronome.

Try 170 BPM for a fast breakbeat or practice passage. Counting at 85 BPM gives you two musical beats per click.

Beats per minute

170

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The tempo

What 170 BPM feels like.

At 170 BPM, each beat lasts about 0.353 seconds and a bar of four beats lasts about 1.412 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
Vivace
156 to 176 BPM
One beat
0.353 sec
One 4/4 bar
1.412 sec
Bars in 3 min
127

Where you hear it

Music that sits at 170 BPM.

Wondering whether a particular track is 170 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.

Practice note: Keep the main pulse steady while trying different subdivisions around it.

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 170 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

170 BPM questions

What does 170 BPM sound like?

A fast pulse with a half-time count at 85 BPM. A beat lands every 0.353 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 1.412 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 127 bars. Press Play above to hear it.

Is 170 BPM fast or slow?

170 BPM is a very fast 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 170 BPM?

Jungle arrangements; drum & bass grooves; fast fiddle passages. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.

How do I set a metronome to 170 BPM?

This page opens already set to 170 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.