I will listen to any reasonable explanation but for the life of me in the U.S. what advantage is there to count BPM as beats per minute and not Bars of Music per Minute. I would find it easier to count 28 bars per minute than 112 beats. Not that i would count 28 bars . Instead i would count bars for 15 seconds and times it by four. I would expect the music to be played at the tempo of seven bars in 15 seconds by counting 123 223 323 and so on for the 15 seconds. Foxtrot or Quickstep would be 1234. 2234. 3234 and so on. Maybe somebody can explain.