40 BPM metronome.
Grave: a beat every second and a half. Press play for the slowest steady click, or download it to slow a passage right down in your DAW.
40BPM
Click track
A WAV at 40 BPM, starting on beat 1
Sampling something at this tempo? DOT records anything your Mac plays and tells you its BPM, key and chords.
A beat every 1.5 seconds.
Where you hear 40.
40 BPM is the slowest marking on most metronomes: one beat every second and a half. Players use it to take a hard passage apart note by note before speeding it up, and conductors read it as grave, the heaviest of the slow tempos.
One beat is 1,500 ms.
A 4/4 bar is 6 seconds. Every note value at 40 BPM, for delays, reverbs and anything that moves in time. Tap one to copy it.
Nearby tempos.
Double time: 80 BPM. Don’t know the song’s tempo? Tap it with tap tempo, or drop the file into the BPM finder. Another tempo? Open the metronome.
The tempo you want is in a song you’re playing.
DOT records anything your Mac plays and tells you its BPM, key and chords, so you can set the click to match.
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Before you play.
Is 40 BPM slow?
It is about as slow as music gets in practice; the grave marking covers 40 to about 45, and most metronomes start here.
How long is one beat at 40 BPM?
A beat lasts 1.5 seconds, so a bar of four takes six seconds, which is why 40 is a practice tempo more than a performance one.
What do you practise at 40 BPM?
Scales and the hardest two bars of a piece, played perfectly before the dial goes up.
Can I use the click track in my DAW?
Yes. The download is a WAV at exactly 40 BPM that starts on beat one; set your project to 40 and drop it at bar 1, and it stays locked for as long as it runs.
