Free tool
Free Online Metronome
A sample-accurate click from 30 to 300 BPM, with accents, time signatures and subdivisions. Press the space bar to start and stop.
Runs in your browser. Your audio never leaves your device.
Shortcuts: the space bar starts and stops, T taps the tempo.
Why practise with a metronome
A click shows you exactly where the beat is, so you hear it when you rush a fill or drag a groove. Drummers use it to lock in their time, to work a part up from a slow tempo to full speed, and to rehearse to the same click a band plays to live.
Using subdivisions
Subdivisions put quieter clicks between the beats: eighth notes, triplets or sixteenths. They help at slow tempos, where the space between beats is easy to misjudge, and in shuffles and sixteenth-note grooves, where you need to place every note and not just the beat.
Why this metronome stays in time
Timers in a web page can drift by tens of milliseconds when the browser is busy. This metronome uses the browser's audio clock instead: it schedules each click a fraction of a second ahead on the audio hardware's own timeline, so the clicks stay sample-accurate even while the page does other work.
Practice tips
Start at a tempo where you can play the part cleanly, then raise it 5 BPM at a time. Halve the tempo and hear each click as beats 2 and 4, so the metronome plays the backbeat and you supply the rest. And spend a few bars with the click muted, then bring it back, to check you held the tempo yourself.
Next step
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