120 BPM Metronome
A free, accurate 120 beats-per-minute metronome — the default tempo of modern music. Tap the button below and it starts clicking at exactly 120 BPM, right in your browser.
What 120 BPM feels like
One hundred and twenty BPM is the unofficial default of modern music — house, disco, EDM, much of pop and the factory setting on nearly every drum machine and DAW. A beat is exactly 500 ms, so it is the cleanest tempo to learn delay and reverb timing on.
Common at 120 BPM
- House & disco
- EDM & dance-pop
- Pop & synthwave
- Allegro practice
Practise in the pocket, not on a grid
The big button above opens our online metronome already set to 120 BPM. Unlike a plain click, it can groove in named human feels — swing, the Dilla pocket, behind the beat — so 120 BPM can lope or push instead of marching. Not sure of your song's tempo? Tap it out and we'll read the BPM for you.
Setting effects at 120 BPM
At 120 BPM one beat is 500 ms. To set a tempo-synced delay or reverb, our 120 BPM delay-time chart lists every note value — normal, dotted and triplet — plus the LFO rate in Hz.