Be creative in linking the tempo to the song somehow.įor example, Another One Bites The Dust is 111 bpm, so you might associate the ‘1’ with “another ‘one’ bites.”, and the repetitions of 1, 1, 1, with those three strong downbeats of the bass line. Here are some Queen tracks and their rough BPM. So, maybe, like me, you’re a massive Queen fan? But you get the idea, eh? The Best Band In The World For example, it’d be great if ‘When I’m 64’ was actually 64 BPM, or Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 was 95 BPM … But they aren’t, so forget that. On that site, you can look at all the songs by, say, Paul McCartney and choose the song you know best at a particular tempo, then come up with a way of memorising the tempo. I found this useful site, which is a list of thousands of songs & their metronome marks. Or, any way of memorizing the tempo that’s quick and easy. Then you want to find a way of linking the BPM to some content within the song. But, whatever you’re into that fits the bill will work.

And pick a bands/artist with tons of great songs, e.g., The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, The Police, Billy Joel, Elvis, etc. I suggest you pick one band as that will make memorisation much easier. You want to pick definitive recorded examples, not generic songs like ‘Happy Birthday’, so that you’ve got something concrete to point to as an example of a particular tempo. The idea is to pick some very memorable songs that you can easily hear in your imagination and map their tempo. Hooray! I knew I could count on you ) Tempo Map Great, but you’re a nerd, and you want to go deeper into it, and you want to look like a freako weirdo who knows the exact bmp for all songs.

And then, is it a little faster or slower than one of those? Double it if you need 120 bpm half it if you want 30 bpm. Well, one way to do it is to look at a clock and count the rate of the seconds – that’s obviously 60 bpm.

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