128 BPM Metronome

This metronome is preset to 128 BPM — press play (or the spacebar) and it ticks 128 beats per minute. In classical terms 128 BPM is Allegro, fast, bright and lively. It's a common tempo for house, EDM, Punjabi pop and uptempo Bollywood.

What 128 BPM means

Tempo is just beats per minute, so 128 BPM works out to:

• 468.8 ms between each beat
• 2.13 beats every second
• 1.88 seconds for one bar of 4/4

Performance-range for most pop, Bollywood and dance music — practise here once the notes are clean at a slower tempo.

How to practise at 128 BPM

Start the metronome above and play one note per click until it feels locked in. If 128BPM is too fast to play cleanly, drop to a slower tempo, nail it there, then come back. If it's too easy, nudge it up 5 BPM at a time. Tap-tempo on the main metronomeif you want to match a song you're hearing.