How it works
A 174 BPM metronome clicks the beats of a Viennese waltz at 58 bars a minute, the slowest that the World DanceSport Federation's 2026 competition rules allow. Fifty-eight bars of three beats come to 174, by our sum.
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Start
Tap the pad, or press Space. The 174 runs level, no click raised, so a waltz's bars of three are counted over it. Tap once more for silence.
Change the tempo
Tap the number under the pad and type a tempo, or use minus and plus. For a higher click at the head of every waltz bar, open this site's 3/4 metronome and type 174 there.
Questions and answers
Is a Viennese waltz 174 or 180 BPM?
The two ends of one range. The World DanceSport Federation's Rule E.3.2 sets the Viennese Waltz at 58 to 60 bars a minute. Wikipedia's Waltz article gives the dance triple, 3/4, time; its Viennese waltz article prints about 180 beats for 58 to 60 measures.
Is 174 BPM vivace, vivacissimo or presto?
Any of them, by Wikipedia's list of tempo markings. Vivace is 156 to 176 and Presto 168 to 200, while Vivacissimo and Allegrissimo get only 172 to 176, with 174 at their centre by our count. Every figure is very rough, the list says.
Can a pendulum metronome play 174?
Not exactly. Wikipedia's Metronome article has the most common scale stepping by eight at this end: 168, then 176. The nearer notch, 176, is 58 and two-thirds waltz bars a minute by our sum, still inside the competition rule's 58 to 60.
What kind of music is 174 BPM?
Drum and bass is one. Wikipedia's article on the genre has it at about 155 to 165 BPM by 1993 and mostly between 170 and 180 from around 1996. Some producers have since slowed down, it says, but the mid-170s remain a hallmark.
Why can't I hear the metronome?
Silence at 174 usually traces to the phone: a ring switch on silent, the volume all the way down, or Bluetooth carrying the click to a speaker in another room. The pad's two dots keep flickering in time whether or not anything is heard.