Tap Tempo
A free BPM tapper: tap along to any song to find its BPM.
Tap at least four times to the beat. Press Escape to start over.
Four taps is all it takes.
Play the song
In any player: Spotify, YouTube, your DAW or a voice memo.
Tap to the beat
On the kick or the snare. The number settles after four or five taps.
Set it in your DAW
Use ½ or ×2 if the number feels too slow or too fast for the style.
Good to know.
A quick way to measure tempo by ear, also called a BPM tapper or BPM counter: you tap along to the beat and the time between taps gives the BPM.
Play the song and tap along to the kick or the snare on the pad above. After four or five taps you see the BPM. To get it from a file instead, drop the song into the BPM and Key Finder. More ways are in our guide.
Four or five taps give a first number; eight or more make it exact. A pause of two seconds starts over.
Many songs can be counted two ways. A trap beat at 140 BPM often feels like 70. Both are right; use ½ or ×2 to switch.
Yes. Tap the pad with your finger.
Yes, with the BPM and Key Finder: drop an MP3 and it finds the tempo and key on its own.
Got the tempo? Find sounds that fit.
Loops and one-shots you can search by tempo, key and instrument.