Tempo marking
AndanteThe traditional Italian marking for 76–108 BPM: at a walking pace.Pulse · tempo · time
90 BPM Metronome
This page opens a working metronome at 90 BPM. Each click arrives every 666.7 milliseconds (0.667 seconds), which the Italian tempo scale calls Andante. Press start, then change the tempo or the time signature whenever you want — nothing here is locked.
Beats per minute
BPM
1234
Ready at 90 BPM in 4/4.
Tempo facts
How fast is 90 BPM?
A metronome set to 90 BPM plays 90 evenly spaced clicks every minute. Here is what that works out to.
Beat interval
666.7 ms60000 ÷ 90 = 666.7 milliseconds between clicks, or 0.667 seconds.Bar length
2.67 sFour beats of 4/4 at 90 BPM fill 2.67 seconds.Half and double time
45 / 180One beat per two clicks gives 45 BPM; splitting each beat in two gives 180 BPM.How 90 BPM feels
At 90 BPM each beat lasts about two thirds of a second. This is a brisk Andante — comfortably countable, but quick enough that you have to anticipate the beat rather than react to it.
What to practise at 90 BPM
90 is a natural checkpoint. A passage that is clean at 90 usually has the coordination needed for 100 or 110 with only a little more work. Counting 'one and two and' aloud here puts an eighth note every third of a second.
Where you meet 90 BPM
90 BPM is a mainstay of pop, soul and shuffle blues. It is also exactly half of 180, so a 90 BPM count keeps its place through fast punk and metal felt in half time.
Half time and double time
90 BPM in half time is 45 BPM: the same music, counted with one beat for every two clicks. Double time is 180 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 45 BPM, keep the same subdivisions, then double the number once the movement is automatic.