How it works
Metronome 76 sets the pace written over the Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony: Wikipedia's article on the work prints the movement's first bars in 2/4 at quarter note = 76. Each click is a quarter note, two to its bar.
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Start
Tap the pad, or press Space: four clicks to a bar at 76, the first one higher. Tap again to stop.
Change the tempo
Tap the number under the pad and type a new tempo, or press minus and plus. Wikipedia's article on Beethoven's Seventh prints other marks too: 104, 132 and 72.
Questions and answers
Is 76 BPM allegretto?
Not by today's numbers. Wikipedia's list of tempo markings puts Allegretto at 112 to 120, its sense by the mid-19th century, and adds that it first meant only a little quicker than Andante. Beethoven's Seventh, whose Allegretto is marked 76, dates from 1811 and 1812.
What speed is 76 BPM called?
Andante, 56 to 108 in Wikipedia's list of tempo markings. Two shorter ranges hold 76 too and stop at 80: Marcia moderato, a march at moderate speed, from 66, and Adagietto, from 46. Every figure there is a rough guide for 4/4.
Where does 76 come on a wind-up metronome's scale?
Where the fours begin. On the most common scale in Wikipedia's Metronome article the threes end at 72, and from 76 the notches come four apart as far as 120. Other makers number theirs differently; here 74 and 75 can be typed too.
Is this 76 BPM metronome set to 4/4?
It is. A bar on this pad is four clicks, and the dot for beat one is the big one. The Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh is in 2/4, two quarter notes to a bar, so each bar of the pad carries two of its bars.
Why can't I hear the metronome?
On a phone the usual causes are the ring switch, a volume of zero, or Bluetooth headphones holding the sound. The pad needs none of it to count: four dots light in turn, and the larger one is beat one.