BPM Tapper

One quarter-note beat per second

Metronome 60 BPM

Press Start for a 60 BPM click. Quarter-note beats are exactly 1,000 milliseconds apart. The control starts at 60 and stays adjustable if your practice plan changes.

BPM

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Tap against the one-second pulse

At 60 BPM, a centered pair of taps should be about 1,000 milliseconds apart. The interval row exposes each gap instead of hiding it behind one average.

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The 60 BPM timing grid

The base interval is 60,000 milliseconds divided by 60 beats, which equals 1,000 milliseconds. The other rows come from multiplying or dividing that base interval; they do not change the selected BPM.

Four-second timing grid showing 60 BPM quarter-note clicks one second apart and eighth-note subdivision clicks halfway between them.
Four quarter-note beats occupy four seconds; eighth-note subdivision adds a click at each half-second.
Click valueIntervalCalculation from 60 BPM
Half note2,000 ms1,000 × 2
Dotted quarter1,500 ms1,000 × 1.5
Quarter note1,000 ms60,000 ÷ 60
Eighth note500 ms1,000 ÷ 2
Eighth-note triplet333.3 ms1,000 ÷ 3
Sixteenth note250 ms1,000 ÷ 4

A wall-clock check that does not depend on labels

Leave the metronome at 60 BPM with quarter-note subdivision. Starting with the first click, thirty beat intervals should occupy thirty seconds. In 4/4, eight complete bars contain thirty-two beats, so the interval from the first beat to the next hypothetical beat after bar eight spans thirty-two seconds.

  1. Choose 4/4 and quarter notes, then start the click.
  2. Count eight full bars while following the accented first beat.
  3. Use an external clock only as a rough playback check. Device audio latency can shift when the first sound reaches you, while the internal click schedule still uses the browser audio clock.

Why 60 BPM can sound like 120 clicks per minute

The BPM field names the quarter-note pulse: sixty quarter-note beats per minute. Selecting eighth notes adds one midpoint click between each pair of quarter notes, producing 120 audible click events per minute while the underlying beat remains 60 BPM. The extra events are subdivisions, not a silent change to the tempo control.

This distinction is useful when one-second gaps feel too exposed. Keep the same 60 BPM beat and add eighth notes for guidance, then remove the subdivision without changing the tempo once the spacing feels stable.

60 BPM metronome questions

How long is one beat at 60 BPM?

One quarter-note beat lasts 1,000 milliseconds: 60,000 milliseconds ÷ 60 beats.

Is 60 BPM exactly one beat per second?

Yes when the beat unit is the quarter note. Sixty quarter-note beats spread evenly across sixty seconds produce one beat each second.

Does eighth-note subdivision make the tempo 120 BPM?

No. It produces two clicks inside each one-second beat cycle while the selected quarter-note pulse remains 60 BPM.

Why must I press Start before hearing sound?

Browsers normally require a user interaction before beginning an audio context. Pressing Start creates or resumes that local audio clock.

Timing boundary

The intervals above are transparent calculations from a selected 60 BPM value. They do not measure a performance, certify playback latency, or show that a recording stays at 60 BPM. The tap panel reports your browser input timing; the BPM Finder estimates a pulse from a selected audio file.

Scheduling reference: BaseAudioContext.currentTime.

For a faster fixed reference, use the 120 BPM metronome. For any other rate, open the full online metronome or convert tempo to milliseconds with the BPM calculator.

The click generator and tap timing run locally in this browser. No tapping data is uploaded.