Tempo marking
AdagioThe traditional Italian marking for 66–76 BPM: slow and stately.Pulse · tempo · time
70 BPM Metronome
This page opens a working metronome at 70 BPM. Each click arrives every 857.1 milliseconds (0.857 seconds), which the Italian tempo scale calls Adagio. Press start, then change the tempo or the time signature whenever you want — nothing here is locked.
Beats per minute
BPM
1234
Ready at 70 BPM in 4/4.
Tempo facts
How fast is 70 BPM?
A metronome set to 70 BPM plays 70 evenly spaced clicks every minute. Here is what that works out to.
Beat interval
857.1 ms60000 ÷ 70 = 857.1 milliseconds between clicks, or 0.857 seconds.Bar length
3.43 sFour beats of 4/4 at 70 BPM fill 3.43 seconds.Half and double time
35 / 140One beat per two clicks gives 35 BPM; splitting each beat in two gives 140 BPM.How 70 BPM feels
70 BPM is a slow, steady pulse of about 857 milliseconds a beat. It is close to what most people tap when asked to keep a calm beat, and close to an average adult resting heart rate.
What to practise at 70 BPM
This is the tempo for learning a piece rather than dissecting it. Fast enough that phrases still hold together as music, slow enough that you can hear a wrong note and fix your hand before the next beat arrives.
Where you meet 70 BPM
70 sits at the bottom of the Adagio range. Downtempo, ambient and many soul ballads are written around 70, and trap written at 140 BPM is felt here, at half speed.
Half time and double time
70 BPM in half time is 35 BPM: the same music, counted with one beat for every two clicks. Double time is 140 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 35 BPM, keep the same subdivisions, then double the number once the movement is automatic.