Finding BPM of audio imported into project

Hello all--
I bet there's an easy answer to this, but as a noob I'm not finding it in searches (though I find lots of related stuff).
I'm trying to tempo-sync imported audio to a midi tempo in a project. Is there an easy way to analyze the tempo of the audio, so that I could maybe bring it close to the midi tempo and then fine-tune? The Time Machine demands the original tempo before alteration is applied (destination tempo), but I don't know how to get that without educated guesswork with the metronome. I guess I would then use Time Machine, Beat Mapping or quantizing, or some combination of the three. Probably I'm missing something real obvious, but I've humiliated myself before in the name of "art" (or something like it). Thanks to all!
later,
John

Thanks for your reply, Donald. I tried the BPM Counter (which I didn't know about, and I'm glad I do now), but unfortunately it didn't work because my audio is acoustic rhythm guitar and vocals, not pronounced enough in the transients for the Counter to grab.
When you say "I put a drum set on an instrument track and program in a midi click playing along with the audio," do you mean playing the track along with the Klopfgeist click, and setting it by trial and error? That seems like the "educated guesswork" that I thought I could do, but hoped I would find something both time-saving and more precise than I would do that way. Maybe you could correct my thinking on that if you have anything to add.
Thanks again!
later,
John

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