To make more changes simply add more tempo changes using this same method. If you have a click track enabled you will hear it audibly slow down as the play/stop marker crosses over the third measure. Now if you look at your tempo ruler you will see the initial tempo (in our case 120) at the song start and then at bar 3 our tempo change to 100 BPM.

In this case I would simply type in my new BPM for bar 3 onwards and click “OK”. A dialog box will pop up asking us what tempo we would like to change it to.

If we wanted to make a tempo change at Bar 3 in this song, we would simply click on bar 3 to place the cursor there and then click on the “+” sign in the tempo ruler to add a new tempo change. (If you wanted to change this back to 130 you could simply double click the red diamond next to the tempo in the ruler, and change it there). You’ll notice instantly that the tempo is grayed out in the transport bar and set to the default of 120 BPM. If we want to have tempo changes however we’ll need to leave manual mode and instead click on the conductor track icon to switch. Our song is set to 130 BPM in manual mode. You’ll see the same tempo BPM reflected in the Tempo ruler over in the edit window. Usually you can just manually type in a tempo setting in the Transport bar/window. The first thing you need to do is get out of the default manual mode that Pro Tools keeps the tempo at. It’s easy to set the tempo in Pro Tools and let the click follow along, but what do you do when your song calls for some tempo changes? How to make the click follow those so you can still play alongside the grid? It’s easy, no worries. This will include a click track set to the right tempo and maybe a scratch recording or two. Before you begin recording in Pro Tools you’ll want to setup a guide track.

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