50 BPM metronome

50 BPM at a glance

• 1200 msper beat
• 0.83beats per second
• 4.8 sper bar of 4/4
• Largotempo marking

What does 50 BPM feel like?

At 50 BPM each beat lasts more than a second, which is slower than a resting heart rate. Very slow clicks are hard to play with because there is so much empty time between them: most people rush. That is exactly why teachers use tempos like 50 BPM — they expose unsteady timing that faster tempos hide.

Music at 50 BPM

Tempos this slow appear in funeral marches, chorales, slow movements marked Grave or Largo, ambient music and meditation tracks. In popular music a song "at" this tempo is usually felt in double time, so a ballad listed at 50 BPM is often counted at 100.

In classical music, 50 BPM falls in the range usually given for Largo or Lento. Tempo markings are approximate — see the tempo markings chart.

Note lengths and delay times at 50 BPM

Producers use these values to set delay, reverb pre-delay and LFO times so effects lock to the beat.

Note	Straight	Dotted	Triplet
Half note	2400 ms	3600 ms	1600 ms
Quarter note (1 beat)	1200 ms	1800 ms	800 ms
Eighth note	600 ms	900 ms	400 ms
Sixteenth note	300 ms	450 ms	200 ms
Thirty-second note	150 ms	225 ms	100 ms

How long is a bar at 50 BPM?

Time signature	1 bar	8 bars	32 bars
2/4	2.4 s	19.2 s	76.8 s
3/4	3.6 s	28.8 s	115.2 s
4/4	4.8 s	38.4 s	153.6 s
5/4	6.0 s	48.0 s	192.0 s

How to practise at 50 BPM

Turn on eighth-note subdivisions (100 clicks per minute) so you can feel the space between beats, or count "1-and-2-and" out loud. For scales, play two or four notes per click. Slow practice at 50 BPM is ideal for learning new fingerings, checking intonation on wind and string instruments and building control before speeding up.

Half time of 50 BPM is 25 BPM; double time is 100 BPM. If 50 BPM is too fast for a passage, the speed trainer can start lower and climb to 50 automatically.

Slower: 40 BPM · Faster: 60 BPM · All tempos

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