Tempo marking
LarghettoThe traditional Italian marking for 60–66 BPM: a little less broad than Largo.Pulse · tempo · time
60 BPM Metronome
This page opens a working metronome at 60 BPM. Each click arrives every 1000 milliseconds (1 seconds), which the Italian tempo scale calls Larghetto. Press start, then change the tempo or the time signature whenever you want — nothing here is locked.
Beats per minute
BPM
1234
Ready at 60 BPM in 4/4.
Tempo facts
How fast is 60 BPM?
A metronome set to 60 BPM plays 60 evenly spaced clicks every minute. Here is what that works out to.
Beat interval
1000 ms60000 ÷ 60 = 1000 milliseconds between clicks, or 1 seconds.Bar length
4 sFour beats of 4/4 at 60 BPM fill 4 seconds.Half and double time
30 / 120One beat per two clicks gives 30 BPM; splitting each beat in two gives 120 BPM.How 60 BPM feels
60 BPM is exactly one beat per second, which makes it the easiest tempo in music to verify — the clicks line up with the seconds hand on a clock. It also sits close to a calm resting heart rate, so the pulse feels found rather than imposed.
What to practise at 60 BPM
60 is the reference tempo for almost every kind of slow work. Set a passage here, play it through three times without an error, then move up. Subdivisions are equally tidy: eighth notes fall every half second and sixteenths every quarter second.
Where you meet 60 BPM
One beat per second is why 60 BPM turns up far outside music, in CPR training and pacing drills. In scores it sits right on the Largo–Larghetto boundary, and a great many slow movements are taken near it.
Half time and double time
60 BPM in half time is 30 BPM: the same music, counted with one beat for every two clicks. Double time is 120 BPM, where every beat splits into two even eighth notes. Both sit inside the 30 to 300 BPM range of this metronome, so you can switch between them and hear the difference straight away.
This relationship is the reason a written tempo and a felt tempo often disagree. Drummers and producers move between the two constantly, and it is also the safest way to learn something fast: build it at 30 BPM, keep the same subdivisions, then double the number once the movement is automatic.