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80 BPM metronome.

There is room to hear each note at 80 BPM. Try it with a slower groove or use it to work through a passage before increasing the speed.

Beats per minute

80

Press Space to start and stop · ↑ ↓ to nudge off 80 · or

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The tempo

What 80 BPM feels like.

At 80 BPM, each beat lasts about 0.750 seconds and a bar of four beats lasts about 3.000 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
Andante
76 to 108 BPM
One beat
0.750 sec
One 4/4 bar
3.000 sec
Bars in 3 min
60

Where you hear it

Music that sits at 80 BPM.

Double it and you land on 160 BPM, which is how a lot of this material is actually written. Same pulse, twice the counting.

Wondering whether a particular track is 80 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.

Practice note: Eighth notes at 80 arrive at the same rate as quarter notes at 160. Try both ways of counting.

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 80 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

80 BPM questions

What does 80 BPM sound like?

An easy pace, with three quarters of a second between beats. A beat lands every 0.750 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 3.000 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 60 bars. Press Play above to hear it.

Is 80 BPM fast or slow?

80 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 80 BPM?

Slow rock; hip-hop grooves; technique practice. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.

Is 80 BPM the same as 160 BPM?

Counted at double speed, 80 BPM is 160 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 80 BPM?

This page opens already set to 80 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.