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95 BPM Metronome

This page opens a working metronome at 95 BPM. Each click arrives every 631.6 milliseconds (0.632 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 95 BPM in 4/4.

Tempo facts

How fast is 95 BPM?

A metronome set to 95 BPM plays 95 evenly spaced clicks every minute. Here is what that works out to.

Tempo marking

AndanteThe traditional Italian marking for 76–108 BPM: at a walking pace.

Beat interval

631.6 ms60000 ÷ 95 = 631.6 milliseconds between clicks, or 0.632 seconds.

Bar length

2.53 sFour beats of 4/4 at 95 BPM fill 2.53 seconds.

Half and double time

47.5 / 190One beat per two clicks gives 47.5 BPM; splitting each beat in two gives 190 BPM.

How 95 BPM feels

95 BPM is the last comfortable step before a tempo begins to feel fast. Each beat is a little over 630 milliseconds and bars pass quickly enough that you start counting in twos as much as in fours.

What to practise at 95 BPM

Use 95 as the point where you stop thinking beat by beat and start thinking bar by bar. If a passage falls apart somewhere between 90 and 100, this is usually the tempo where the weakness shows itself first.

Where you meet 95 BPM

Plenty of rock, funk and hip-hop sits at 95. It is also a common tempo for practice loops and backing tracks, being fast enough to sound like real music yet still forgiving.

Half time and double time

95 BPM in half time is 47.5 BPM: the same music, counted with one beat for every two clicks. Double time is 190 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 48 BPM, keep the same subdivisions, then double the number once the movement is automatic.