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ANDANTE · MODERATE AND MUSICAL

100 BPM metronome.

100 beats per minute is the textbook moderate tempo: a beat every 0.6 seconds, and a bar of 4/4 every 2.4 seconds. It is the default target of the Playroom tempo trainer, and it is where many simple patterns stop feeling like practice and start feeling like a song.

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BEATS PER MINUTE
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Your time. Your tempo.

Space start / stopT tap tempo adjust tempoTap a beat to accent or silence it.
  • 600 msOne beat
  • 2.40 sOne bar of 4/4
  • 300 msEighth note
  • 150 msSixteenth note
  • AndanteTempo marking

What 100 BPM is used for

  • Full drum grooves with kick, snare, and hi-hat together
  • Simple chord songs on guitar with one strum per beat
  • Piano arpeggios played one note per click across two octaves
  • Checking whether a pattern you learned at 80 BPM is really secure

A practice idea at 100 BPM

Turn on the tempo trainer, start at 80 BPM, add 2 BPM every 4 bars, and set 100 as the target. If a bar falls apart, stop, drop 8 BPM, and build again from there.

Press Space to start and stop, T to tap a new tempo, and the arrow keys to nudge the speed by one BPM. The routine in how to use a metronome builds on these steps.

Lessons near this tempo

Playroom lessons are written at 48, 60, 72, and 80 BPM so every note can be counted; the closest lesson tempo to 100 BPM is 80 BPM. Learn a pattern there, then bring it up to 100 BPM here with the tempo trainer.

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Other tempos

See the full chart of Italian tempo markings in tempo markings and BPM, or go back to the online metronome.

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