3/4 metronome (waltz time)
Three quarter notes per bar with the first accented: the time signature of waltzes, minuets and many folk songs. Count “one-two-three” and lean on the one.
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Note lengths at 90 BPM
| Note | Length | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 2,667 ms | 22.5 |
| Half note | 1,333 ms | 45 |
| Quarter note | 667 ms | 90 |
| Eighth note | 333 ms | 180 |
| Eighth-note triplet | 222 ms | 270 |
| Sixteenth note | 167 ms | 360 |
With the quarter note at 90 BPM. Handy for delay settings too: a quarter-note echo is 667 ms, a dotted-eighth echo 500 ms.
Practice tip
A relaxed mid-tempo: ballads, slower pop songs and most beginner exercises. Once the passage is clean here, raise it 4–5 BPM at a time.
Other tempos
Time signatures and tempo markings
Frequently asked questions
What tempo is a waltz?
A Viennese waltz is fast, about 160–180 BPM on the quarter note (felt one beat per bar). A slow English waltz is about 84–90 BPM.
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