Writing the term for the tempo and the BPM gives the musician reading the music a very clear idea of how it should be played. The image above shows the BPM (in this case 90 BPM) as well as the ...

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Sometimes the tempo is shown on music scores using numbers. This number is the amount of beats per minute (BPM). So the higher the number, the faster the tempo. 60BPM is one beat per second.