Adagio tempo metronome
“At ease”: slow and calm, the tempo of many slow movements in symphonies and sonatas. About 66–76 BPM; the metronome is set to 70 BPM.
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Note lengths at 70 BPM
| Note | Length | Per minute |
|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 3,429 ms | 17.5 |
| Half note | 1,714 ms | 35 |
| Quarter note | 857 ms | 70 |
| Eighth note | 429 ms | 140 |
| Eighth-note triplet | 286 ms | 210 |
| Sixteenth note | 214 ms | 280 |
With the quarter note at 70 BPM. Handy for delay settings too: a quarter-note echo is 857 ms, a dotted-eighth echo 643 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
How many milliseconds is one beat at 70 BPM?
60,000 / 70 = 857.1 ms per quarter note; an eighth note is 428.6 ms and a sixteenth is 214.3 ms.
How fast is 70 BPM?
1.2 beats per second (1.2 Hz). In Italian tempo terms that's Adagio. A calm, slow pulse; a resting heart beats around 60–80.
How do I speed up gradually?
Turn on the metronome's tempo trainer: set a target tempo, a step and how many bars between steps, and it speeds up on its own.
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