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90 BPM metronome.

Try 90 BPM for a moderate groove or an exercise that needs room to breathe. You can also use it as a half-time click for music at 180 BPM.

Beats per minute

90

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The tempo

What 90 BPM feels like.

At 90 BPM, each beat lasts about 0.667 seconds and a bar of four beats lasts about 2.667 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
0.667 sec
One 4/4 bar
2.667 sec
Bars in 3 min
67

Where you hear it

Music that sits at 90 BPM.

Double it and you land on 180 BPM, which is how a lot of this material is actually written. Same pulse, twice the counting.

Wondering whether a particular track is 90 BPM? Tap along with it and compare, or let the MagicBPM app listen and tell you.

Practice note: Play straight eighth notes, then a shuffle, while keeping the main beat steady.

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 90 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

90 BPM questions

What does 90 BPM sound like?

A relaxed groove, with two thirds of a second between beats. A beat lands every 0.667 seconds, so one bar of 4/4 lasts 2.667 seconds and a three-minute song runs to about 67 bars. Press Play above to hear it.

Is 90 BPM fast or slow?

90 BPM is a moderate 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 90 BPM?

Hip-hop grooves; shuffle practice; half-time practice for 180 BPM. The list is a guide rather than a rule: tempo varies within every genre.

Is 90 BPM the same as 180 BPM?

Counted at double speed, 90 BPM is 180 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 90 BPM?

This page opens already set to 90 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.