130 BPM Metronome
A free 130 BPM online metronome with accents, time signatures and tap tempo.
Timing is scheduled on the Web Audio clock, so the beat stays steady even while the page is busy. Tap the tempo button in time with a song to set the BPM by ear. Keyboard: space starts and stops, up and down arrows change the tempo by 1 (hold shift for 10), escape stops.
130 BPM sits firmly in the Allegro range, a touch above the 128 BPM house standard and a common tempo for driving pop, trance and dance tracks.
Using 130 BPM
130 BPM keeps the energetic four-on-the-floor feel of house music while pushing slightly faster, a tempo often used in trance and uptempo pop production. It is fast enough that a metronome's accent on beat one becomes especially useful for keeping your place across longer practice passages.
If you already practice at 120 or 128 BPM, 130 is a natural next step to build comfort with slightly faster tempos before moving into the 140 BPM range.
Frequently asked questions
What tempo marking is 130 BPM?
130 BPM is in the Allegro range, a fast, energetic tempo above the common 120 and 128 BPM dance-music benchmarks.
What genres use 130 BPM?
Trance and uptempo pop and dance tracks often sit around 130 BPM, a step up in energy from the standard 128 BPM house tempo.
How does 130 BPM compare to 128 BPM?
It is only slightly faster, a subtle difference, but it can be enough to shift a track's feel from a standard house groove to something more driving.
Which tempo marking is 130 BPM?
130 BPM falls inside the range commonly given for Allegro, 120 to 168 BPM. Allegro translates as cheerful, lively. Those ranges are a convention rather than a measurement: the Italian tempo words were in use long before the metronome existed and were never defined numerically, so published tables disagree at the edges.
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Frequencies on this page are computed at build time from twelve tone equal temperament with A4 = 440 Hz, using the twelfth root of two (about 1.059463) per semitone. Nothing is typed in by hand. See the full method and sources. Maintained by FusionStudios. Last reviewed: .