Tap the button — or any key — along with the song. From the second tap you see its tempo in BPM, and the more you tap, the more precise the average.
— BPM
Tap at least twice
Listen and tap along with the pulse — the one you would tap your foot to, not every drum hit. Four to eight taps are enough for the number to settle. Pause for more than two seconds and the count starts over, so you can measure another song without pressing anything.
If the result looks like double or half what you expected, you tapped eighth notes or every other beat: both numbers describe the same song, and the right one is whichever feels like the pulse.
Once you have the tempo, press “Use this tempo in the metronome” and practise the song at that speed — or 20% slower to learn it.
The app’s metronome keeps playing with the screen locked, saves your songs in setlists, has eight sounds and taps the beat on your wrist on Apple Watch. Free, no account.
Get it on Google Play Download on the App StoreTap the button along with the song at least four times. The counter averages the intervals between taps and gives you the tempo in beats per minute.
It averages your last eight taps, so small timing errors cancel out. With eight steady taps it is usually within one or two BPM of the real tempo.
Yes: any key counts as a tap, including the space bar, so you can follow the song without looking at the screen.
Yes: the Music mode of the Sound Tools analyzer, on iPhone and Android, listens to a song and detects its key and chords, and the app’s metronome saves each song’s tempo in setlists.