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ANDANTE · A STEADY, CONFIDENT WALK

90 BPM metronome.

90 beats per minute is a confident walking tempo, still inside the andante range. A beat lasts about 0.67 seconds. Many classic hip-hop and R&B grooves live between 85 and 95 BPM, which is why 90 feels naturally heavy and relaxed on a drum kit.

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Your time. Your tempo.

Space start / stopT tap tempo adjust tempoTap a beat to accent or silence it.
  • 667 msOne beat
  • 2.67 sOne bar of 4/4
  • 333 msEighth note
  • 167 msSixteenth note
  • AndanteTempo marking

What 90 BPM is used for

  • Boom-bap style drum grooves with a strong backbeat on 2 and 4
  • Guitar strumming patterns with down and up strokes on every eighth note
  • Moving a practiced scale from 80 BPM up by a small, safe step
  • Metronome trainer sessions that start at 80 and finish at 100

A practice idea at 90 BPM

Accent beats 2 and 4 in the metronome so the click itself sounds like a backbeat. Play kick on 1 and 3 and snare on 2 and 4 and let the accented click confirm each snare.

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 90 BPM is 80 BPM. Learn a pattern there, then bring it up to 90 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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