Topic: How to Select the Right Tempo
Ok, so I know there is never a right or wrong tempo but I was playing around with Cubase last night and I thought I would get a basic drum beat, try and lay some chords to get inspiration for creating a basic song.
By default Cubase opens with a tempo of 120bpm. To me this sounds too fast but often slowing it down, it seemed to sound too slow and I couldn't find a happy medium.
So I started trying to figure the tempo of some of the songs I was listening to at the time, mainly Thunder. It seemed these were sitting at around the 80bpm - is this correct? Is 80 pretty standard for this kind of melodic rock music?
How do you go about selecting the right tempo for your songs?