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70 BPM metronome.

Use 70 BPM for a relaxed practice session or a slower song. It is also half of 140 BPM, useful when you want fewer clicks while keeping the same musical pace.

Beats per minute

70

Press Space to start and stop · ↑ ↓ to nudge off 70 · or

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The tempo

What 70 BPM feels like.

At 70 BPM, each beat lasts about 0.857 seconds and a bar of four beats lasts about 3.429 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
Adagio
66 to 76 BPM
One beat
0.857 sec
One 4/4 bar
3.429 sec
Bars in 3 min
52

Where you hear it

Music that sits at 70 BPM.

Double it and you land on 140 BPM, which is how a lot of this material is actually written. Same pulse, twice the counting.

Wondering whether a particular track is 70 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.

Practice note: Try counting aloud with the click before adding your instrument. Keep the spaces between beats even.

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.

MagicBPM for Mac, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch

Take 70 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

70 BPM questions

What does 70 BPM sound like?

A gentle, unhurried pulse. A beat lands every 0.857 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 3.429 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 52 bars. Press Play above to hear it.

Is 70 BPM fast or slow?

70 BPM is a slow 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 70 BPM?

Slow ballads; relaxed grooves; half-time practice for 140 BPM. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.

Is 70 BPM the same as 140 BPM?

Counted at double speed, 70 BPM is 140 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 70 BPM?

This page opens already set to 70 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.