Tap tempo

1. Listen to the music and find the beat you would tap your foot to.
2. Tap the button, or press T, on every beat.
3. From the third tap the tempo shows in BPM, beats per minute: 120 BPM is two beats a second.
4. Keep tapping. The number settles as more taps come in.

Pause for more than two seconds and the count starts over. It works as a BPM counter for anything with a beat you can hear.

Tap the beat you feel, not the busiest instrument: the kick and the snare, not the hi-hat. Tap the beat you would count one, two, three, four to. Eight even taps give a steadier number than three, so keep going until it stops moving.

If your number comes out about twice or half what you expected, you tapped a different pulse. Tap again on every other beat, or twice as often. A tapped number is only as steady as your tapping.

Play along to a click at the tempo you tapped, beat 1 accented, and tap again while it plays to change it from the next beat. For accents on any beat, eighths, a count-in or a tempo that climbs by itself, open the full metronome.

Or start from a round tempo: 60 BPM, 80 BPM, 90 BPM, 100 BPM, 120 BPM, 140 BPM, 160 BPM or 180 BPM.

Tapping finds the tempo you hear, one tap at a time. Nothing here looks a song up by its name or listens to a recording: play the song and tap along.

This sets a click to play along to; it is not a delay pedal's tap tempo.