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Tap the beat — or press any key
How to Tap a Tempo
Play the song — on a speaker, in headphones, in your head — and tap the button once per beat, the way you would tap your foot. Two taps are enough for a first reading. Eight or more give a number that no longer moves when you tap a little early or late, because the tempo is worked out from the whole run of taps rather than from the last gap alone.
Use the Keyboard, a Mouse or Your Phone
Any key that types a character works as a tap, and so does Enter, so there is no key to find first: the space bar, a letter, whichever your hand is resting on. On a phone or tablet, tap the round button. The tap is registered the moment your finger or the key goes down, not when it comes back up, so how long you hold it makes no difference to the result.
What the BPM Tapper Shows
The large number is the tempo rounded to a whole BPM, which is what a metronome, a DJ deck or a drum machine wants. Below it is the same tempo to one decimal place and the number of taps counted so far. The reading follows your sixteen most recent taps, so if you speed up or correct yourself it catches up within a few bars instead of averaging in everything since the first tap.
Starting Again
Stop tapping for two seconds and the next tap begins a new count by itself — there is nothing to reset between two songs. The Start over button clears the display if you would rather see it empty.
Have the Song as a File?
Tapping is the right tool when the music is playing somewhere you cannot reach: a record, a rehearsal, a video on another screen. When the song is a file on your device, the BPM Finder reads the tempo from the audio itself, and tells you the key as well.
Open the BPM Finder →Tap, Click or Type
The button, the screen or any key. Nothing to set up first.Steady After a Few Taps
Read from your last sixteen taps, so one late tap barely moves it.Works on a Phone
A button big enough for a thumb, with no delay on touch.Frequently Asked Questions
Two taps give a first number, but it is only as good as that one gap. Keep going for eight to sixteen taps: the tempo is calculated from the time between your first and last tap in that run, so small errors in the taps in between cancel out.
Any key that types a character — letters, numbers, the space bar — or Enter. Keys that do something else, such as Tab, Escape and the arrow keys, keep doing that and are not counted as taps.
You are probably tapping a different beat level from the one the number you expected was counted in. Tapping every second beat of a 140 BPM track reads 70. Both describe the same music; tap on every beat of the bar if you want the faster figure.
Pause for two seconds. The next tap starts a fresh count automatically. The Start over button does the same thing immediately.
Not on this page. If you have the song as an audio or video file, the BPM Finder on this site analyzes the file and reports the tempo and the key. It runs in your browser, so the file is not uploaded.
Yes. There is no account, no limit on how often you use it and nothing to install. It is a page in your browser.