ht5
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How to Calculate the Beats Per Minute (BPM) of a Song
Listen to the song and pay close attention to the drum beat.
Try to isolate it from the rest of the instruments and the vocal
track. If you are new to this, try first with the instrumental
version of the song if it's available, as it'll make things
easier.
Notice that most of the drum beats in modern music (hip hop,
house, funk, electronica) come in a 4 by 4 pattern. That is, each
loop has four steps marked by two bass drum hits and two snare
hits: boom clat, boom clat and so on... (with slight changes and
variations, they all follow the same basic formula). So you can
count each hit like: one, two, three, four, one, two, three and so
on...
Grab a chronometer in one hand and press play on the record
player with the other. Start both at the same time and start
counting, but instead of starting all over again after four, keep
on counting all the hits of the drum beat: one, two, three, four,
five, six... You know how you nod with your head when you follow
the rhythm of a song? Each time you nod, count as one.
Stop counting when the chronometer reaches 15 seconds. Now you
know that in those 15 seconds there were, let's say, 24 drum hits,
which basically means that if you multiply that by four, you'll
know how many beats are in a minute (15 seconds x 4 = 60 seconds =
1 minute). So if you counted up to 24, that means the song's BPM is
96.
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RE: How to Calculate the Beats Per Minute (BPM) of a Song
wow we gotta dj in our forum, awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol so dude, is djing easy? i tried doing it, but soon stopped, beat matching got really hard on my decks
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, im a deejay so yeah, LOL.. But BPm is very important when mixing a song.
