A precise, web-based metronome for any instrument. Adjustable from 30 to 300 BPM, multiple time signatures and subdivisions, tap tempo, and accent control. Nothing to download.
Built on the Web Audio clock, the same engine used by professional DAWs. Beats are scheduled in advance so the tempo stays accurate even under browser load.
Play along to a recording, tap the spacebar or the Tap button, and the metronome locks to your tempo within four taps. Perfect for transcribing.
Eighth-note, triplet, and sixteenth-note subdivisions. Time signatures from 2/4 to 6/8. The first beat is accented by default so you never lose the downbeat.
Whatever tempo feels comfortable, drop it 20 BPM. If you can play a passage cleanly at a slow tempo, speeding it up is just muscle memory. If you practice it fast with mistakes, you are training the mistakes.
Advanced trick: set the metronome to click only on beats 2 and 4, or only on the "and" of each beat. This forces you to internalise the pulse instead of leaning on the click.
When a passage is clean at your current tempo, increase by 5 BPM. If it falls apart, drop back 10 and try again. Small, consistent increments build real tempo range.
Very slow, solemn. Funeral marches, requiem movements.
Slow, expressive. Typical of ballads and romantic movements.
Walking pace. The reference point most pieces are compared to.
Moderate. A common dance tempo.
Fast, lively. Most pop, rock, and bright classical works sit here.
Very fast. Technical études, bebop, technical metal.
The best musicians hear the pulse before they play it.