The quick answer to this question is yes, definitely!

First, many of the songs in our catalog have been tagged with a tempo, so it is easy to get a list of suggestions. However, these are tempi that have been sourced from all over the web, so please use this as a first approximation rather than some kind of official source.

That said, it’s very easy to get a list of songs of a particular tempo. Just go to the song list page (the “Songs” item in the “Music” menu), choose the style of dance you’re interested in practicing [A] and click on the “More” button [B].

Then you can fill the minimum tempo (C) an the maximum temp (D), and click the search button (E) to get a list of songs.

If the list is empty we haven’t tagged any songs in that tempo range for that dance style. Which is the perfect segue into the another way to do this kind of search.

If you are competing in a particular category (International Standard, International Latin, American Smooth and American Rhythm), you can go to the info page for that category by clicking on the name of the category on the Ballroom Dancer section of the home page or at the bottom of the dance style page. The core of each of these pages is a table with the dances styles for that competition category and the competition tempo ranges. The tempo ranges are active links to just the kind of song search that I described in the last paragraph. Starting here will assure that you’ve started with the approved competition tempo range. Full documentation for the dance category pages can be found here.

Finally, if you are practicing a particular dance you can start from the dance style page (from the “Dances” item in the “Music” menu) and click on the dance style that you’re practicing. The tempo info link on that page will take you to the same table as the category page but with just the single dance style specified. Full documentation for the dance style pages can be found here.

Hope that helps. If you are interested in helping refine our catalog (by, for instance, adding ‘strict’ tags) please sign up for our upcoming beta via this feedback form, or use the same form to report incorrect tempi or other information in our database.