Online metronome
A precise, free metronome for practice: 30 to 250 beats per minute, with time signatures, subdivisions, accents the way you want them, a speed trainer and a practice timer. It plays in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
BPM
Tap a dot to change its sound: accent, normal or silent.
Time signature and sound
Speed trainer
Practice timer
How to use the metronome
- Press “Start” (or the space bar) and choose the tempo with the slider, the number field or the −5, −1, +1 and +5 buttons. You can also use the ↑ and ↓ keys (with Shift, in steps of 5).
- If you do not know the tempo of a song, press “Tap tempo” in time with the music: it averages your last taps.
- Choose the time signature (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8 or 12/8) and the subdivision. In the eighth-note meters the tempo marks the quarter note in 7/8 and the dotted quarter in 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8.
- Tap each dot to decide whether that beat sounds accented, normal or silent.
- Turn on the trainer to raise the tempo step by step, or the timer to practice for a fixed time.
Why practice with a metronome
Playing with a metronome trains your inner pulse and shows the passages where you rush or drag. It works best to start slowly, at a tempo where you make no mistakes, and raise it little by little: that is what the speed trainer is for.