Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station over a first bandwidth part (BWP) of a carrier. The UE may receive a beam failure recovery (BFR) configuration signal configuring a set of periodic channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) in the first BWP and a set of synchronization signals in a second BWP. The UE may measure the set of periodic CSI-RSs in the first BWP. The UE may set a beam for communicating with the base station over the first BWP based at least in part on the measuring. The UE may be a reduced bandwidth capability and support communicating with the base station using only one BWP.