6/8 metronome.
Six 8th notes to the bar, leaning on 1 and 4. It opens at 180 BPM in 8ths, so the two big beats land a second apart. Download the click for your DAW.
BPM
Beats per bar
Click track, bars
16 bars at 180 BPM6/8 · 32 s, accents on 1 and 4
Tap the tempoSampling something at this tempo? DOT records anything your Mac plays and tells you its BPM, key and chords.
Six clicks, two big beats.
Where you hear 6/8.
6/8 feels like two slow beats that each split into three: one two three, four five six. The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun” and Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” are in 6/8, and so are most Irish jigs. This metronome clicks the 8th notes, so its BPM is three times the speed of the big beat.
One click is 333.33 ms, an 8th note.
A 6/8 bar is 2 seconds. Every note value at 180 BPM in 8th notes, for delays, reverbs and anything that moves in time. Tap one to copy it.
Other time signatures.
Need one tempo from 40 to 240 BPM? The metronome lists them all. Don’t know the song’s tempo? Tap it with tap tempo, or drop the file into the BPM finder.
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.
How do you count 6/8?
One two three, four five six, leaning on 1 and 4. That makes two beats per bar, and each one splits into three 8th notes.
What BPM should I set for a song in 6/8?
This metronome clicks 8th notes, so multiply the song’s dotted-quarter tempo by three. A 6/8 song marked 60 is 180 here; one marked 40 is 120.
Can I download a 6/8 click track?
Yes. The WAV keeps the accents on 1 and 4 and starts on beat 1. In your DAW, set the project to 6/8 at the same 8th-note tempo and place it at bar 1.
