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Meanings of metronome marking in English

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The pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds.

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        Examples for "bpm"
        Examples for "bpm"
        1
        Grime's stars shed their 140bpm backbone in favour of more chart-friendly fodder.
        The Guardian
        2
        However, when working at maximum effort your heart rate may rise above 200bpm.
        The Guardian
        3
        Animals were paced via the right atrium at a rate of 130 bpm.
        Pubmed
        4
        Patency can be detected at heart rates greater than 80 bpm.
        Pubmed
        5
        The metabolic demand during the walking exercise increased between NM and HIGH bpm conditions.
        Pubmed
        1
        Her skin was ashen; I found her pulse: sixty beats per minute.
        Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
        2
        His heart was thundering at close to two hundred beats per minute.
        Storm Front
        3
        My resting heart rate at that particular time was 160 beats per minute.
        Here's the deal: don't touch me
        4
        He has a resting heart rate of 40 beats per minute, Gaz said.
        Reuters
        5
        His resting heart rate was a whale-like 29 beats per minute.
        The Guardian