Tempo marking
AdagioThe traditional Italian marking for 66–76 BPM: slow and stately.Pulse · tempo · time
75 BPM Metronome
This page opens a working metronome at 75 BPM. Each click arrives every 800 milliseconds (0.8 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 75 BPM in 4/4.
Tempo facts
How fast is 75 BPM?
A metronome set to 75 BPM plays 75 evenly spaced clicks every minute. Here is what that works out to.
Beat interval
800 ms60000 ÷ 75 = 800 milliseconds between clicks, or 0.8 seconds.Bar length
3.2 sFour beats of 4/4 at 75 BPM fill 3.2 seconds.Half and double time
37.5 / 150One beat per two clicks gives 37.5 BPM; splitting each beat in two gives 150 BPM.How 75 BPM feels
At 75 BPM a beat lasts exactly 0.8 seconds, so four beats fill 3.2 seconds. The pulse is slow but it has forward motion — it no longer feels like waiting for the next click.
What to practise at 75 BPM
75 is where technique starts to connect to music. Scales, arpeggios and chord changes all work at one event per beat, and sixteenth notes come out at five a second, which is quick but still countable.
Where you meet 75 BPM
75 BPM sits at the top of Adagio, just under Andante. A great deal of slow rock and R&B is written between 70 and 80 beats per minute.
Half time and double time
75 BPM in half time is 37.5 BPM: the same music, counted with one beat for every two clicks. Double time is 150 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 38 BPM, keep the same subdivisions, then double the number once the movement is automatic.