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Set the tempo
Type it, slide it, nudge it with the arrow keys, or hit TAP along to any song and the metronome matches your tapping, even while it is playing.
A full practice metronome in your browser: tap in any song's tempo, set time signatures and subdivisions, and train with speed ramps and silent bars.
Click a beat to accent it, click again to mute it.
space start and stop · T tap · ↑ ↓ ±5 BPM · ← → ±1 BPM
Runs in your browser. No account, nothing installed, and the timing comes from your device's audio clock, not a video loop.
Type it, slide it, nudge it with the arrow keys, or hit TAP along to any song and the metronome matches your tapping, even while it is playing.
Pick a time signature, choose the grouping for odd meters like 7/8, set subdivisions, and click any beat dot to accent or mute it.
Turn on the speed trainer to raise the tempo automatically, or silent bars to drop the click out and test your internal time.
Solid time is the least glamorous skill in music and the most audible when it is missing. A metronome does one honest thing: it tells you the truth about where the beat is, every time, so your hands learn the distance between notes instead of an approximation of it. Timing here is scheduled on your device's audio clock, the same mechanism a DAW uses, so the click does not drift the way video-loop metronomes do.
Tap tempo closes the loop with real music. Hear a song, tap along on the TAP button or the T key, and the metronome reads your taps, averages out the jitter, and locks to that tempo. Eight taps is usually enough to land within a beat per minute.
The speed trainer automates the oldest practice method there is: play it clean, then play it a little faster. Set how many BPM to add and how often, give it a ceiling, and the tempo climbs while you play. Silent bars train the opposite skill: the click drops out for a bar and returns, and where it catches you is an honest measure of your internal clock.
Time signatures cover the meters musicians actually practise, and the odd ones come with their real groupings: 7/8 as 2+2+3 or 3+2+2, 5/4 as 3+2 or 2+3, compound meters pulsed in threes. Swing shifts the off-beat eighths for shuffle and jazz feels, and every beat dot can be accented or muted by clicking it.
Press TAP (or the T key) in time with the song. The reading stabilises after about eight taps, and smooths out small timing wobbles in your tapping. Pause for a few seconds and tap again to start fresh.
Clicks are scheduled on your device's audio clock, the same mechanism recording software uses, rather than on screen timers. The audit on this page's engine measured no drift at 300 BPM, and the click keeps time even when the tab is in the background.
The classical names map to ranges: largo is roughly 40 to 60 BPM, adagio 60 to 76, andante 76 to 108, moderato 108 to 120, allegro 120 to 156, vivace 156 to 176, presto 176 and up. The metronome shows the name for whatever tempo you set.
Choose 7/8 and pick its grouping: 2+2+3 or 3+2+2. The accents land on the group starts, which is how the meter is actually felt, and you can re-accent any beat by clicking its dot.
Gradual tempo increase is the standard way to build speed cleanly. Set how many BPM to add, how many bars between increases, and a maximum, and the metronome climbs while you play instead of you stopping to adjust it.
The click drops out for a bar (or more) and comes back. If you are still on the beat when it returns, your internal time is doing the work; if not, you know exactly what to practise.
Yes. The swing slider delays the off-beat eighths or sixteenths up to a hard shuffle, while the main beats stay locked.
Yes. Free to use, no account, nothing installed, including the speed trainer and silent bars that apps usually charge for. It is one of a set of browser tools we build for artists and labels.
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