85 BPM Metronome
A free, accurate 85 beats-per-minute metronome — an easy, swung head-nod. Tap the button below and it starts clicking at exactly 85 BPM, right in your browser.
What 85 BPM feels like
Eighty-five BPM sits in the sweet spot of classic hip-hop and neo-soul — relaxed enough to lean all the way back, quick enough to bump in the car. A huge share of golden-era boom-bap records live right around here.
Common at 85 BPM
- Golden-era hip-hop
- Neo-soul
- Reggae & dub
- Lo-fi beats
Practise in the pocket, not on a grid
The big button above opens our online metronome already set to 85 BPM. Unlike a plain click, it can groove in named human feels — swing, the Dilla pocket, behind the beat — so 85 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 85 BPM
At 85 BPM one beat is 705.9 ms. To set a tempo-synced delay or reverb, our 85 BPM delay-time chart lists every note value — normal, dotted and triplet — plus the LFO rate in Hz.