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ANDANTE · A RELAXED WALKING PACE

80 BPM metronome.

80 beats per minute is a relaxed walking pace and the default tempo of the Playroom metronome. Each beat lasts 0.75 seconds. It is slow enough to think, but fast enough that a pattern starts to sound like music rather than a drill.

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Your time. Your tempo.

Space start / stopT tap tempo adjust tempoTap a beat to accent or silence it.
  • 750 msOne beat
  • 3.00 sOne bar of 4/4
  • 375 msEighth note
  • 188 msSixteenth note
  • AndanteTempo marking

What 80 BPM is used for

  • Scales and five-finger exercises played one note per click
  • Many slow pop, soul, and hip-hop songs, which sit between 80 and 95 BPM
  • Drum grooves with eighth-note hi-hats, which run at 160 hits per minute at this tempo
  • Expert Playroom exercises, which mostly use 72 or 80 BPM

A practice idea at 80 BPM

Set the subdivision to eighth notes. Play one note per click for a bar, then two notes per click for a bar, and alternate. The goal is to keep the two-note bars from speeding up.

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.

Playroom lessons at 80 BPM

55 of the 300 lessons run at exactly this tempo, with a four-beat count-in and timing feedback on every note. A few to start with:

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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.

Learn a little about the beat