How it works
A 98 beats per minute metronome clicks at a speed with several names: Andante in Wikipedia's list of tempo markings, Moderato on a Japanese dial pictured in German Wikipedia, and the border of two words on a French one.
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Start
Tap the pad, or press Space. Every click at 98 sounds the same and two dots take turns, so no bar is implied. Tap again to stop.
Change the tempo
Tap the number under the pad and type a tempo, or use minus and plus. Two presses either way reach a notch of the most common wind-up scale in Wikipedia's Metronome article: 96 below, 100 above.
Questions and answers
What is 98 beats per minute called on a metronome?
Andante, in Wikipedia's list of tempo markings (56 to 108); Andantino and Andante moderato, both 80 to 108, fit too. Moderato begins there only at 108, ten beats higher. The list calls its figures very rough approximations for 4/4 that vary by composer and work.
Is 98 ever marked moderato or adagio?
German Wikipedia's Tempo article pictures a Japanese dial with 98 at the exact middle of Moderato (92 to 104) and a 19th-century French one where Larghetto (70 to 98) meets Adagio (98 to 124), words the English list ends at 66. Approximate hints, it says.
Is quarter note = 98 the same as 98 beats per minute?
Here, yes: each click is one quarter note. Dividing that beat ourselves, an eighth note lasts 306.1 ms, a sixteenth 153.1 ms, a dotted eighth 459.2 ms and one note of an eighth-note triplet 204.1 ms.
Can I use this metronome for 6/8 at 98?
Not this page: it marks no bar. The 6/8 metronome counts dotted quarters, so typing 98 there gives 294 eighth notes a minute, by our sum. If the 98 counts eighth notes instead, the beat would be 32.7, and the field plays whole tempos only.
Why can't I hear the metronome?
Usually it is the phone: the ring switch is on silent, the volume is down, or Bluetooth has sent the click somewhere else. The two dots go on swapping at 98 with or without sound.