What is Tap Tempo?
Tap tempo is a way to set or measure a tempo by tapping a button or key in time with the music. The device or app averages the time between your taps and turns it into a BPM value.
It is found on delay pedals, drum machines, DJ software and web tools. Tapping is useful when you need the tempo of a song you are listening to, of a live band, or of a sample that has no tempo information.
Accuracy improves with more taps, because small timing errors average out. Tapping for eight or more beats usually gives a stable number, and a good tool ignores taps that are clearly off.
If you tap on every other beat, you will get half the tempo, which is a common source of confusion between, for example, 85 and 170 BPM.
Put it to work
Tap along with any song to find its BPM.
Tap Tempo (BPM Tapper)