Free Online Metronome
Practice with a steady click, tap your tempo, customize accents, and build speed with focused training tools.
Space: start/stop · T: tap · ↑/↓: BPM
Practice Tools Gap training, tempo trainer & custom accents
Beat accents
Click each beat to cycle Accent → Normal → Mute.
Gap practice
Tempo trainer
Practice timer
Recent Tempos
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Accuracy: Uses Web Audio look-ahead scheduling for stable practice timing. Actual playback can still vary slightly with browser, device, and system load.
Privacy: Audio is generated in your browser. No microphone or audio upload is required.
Troubleshooting: If you cannot hear the click, increase volume, check the selected output device, and interact with the page once to allow browser audio playback.
Use this Free Online Metronome to practice with a steady, accurate beat directly in your browser. Set your tempo from 20 to 300 BPM, use Tap Tempo to match a rhythm by feel, choose a time signature, add subdivisions, customize beat accents, and use advanced practice modes to improve timing and consistency.
The metronome supports common and irregular meters, including 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, and 12/8. You can also practice with quarter notes, eighth notes, triplets, and sixteenth-note subdivisions.
How to Use the Online Metronome
Start by choosing your desired BPM, or beats per minute. You can enter a tempo directly, use the slider, adjust it with the controls, or tap a tempo manually.
Then:
- Select the correct time signature.
- Choose a subdivision if needed.
- Adjust the click sound and volume.
- Customize accents for individual beats.
- Press Start and play with the pulse.
- Increase or reduce the BPM based on your accuracy.
If you are trying to match the tempo of a song, use Tap Tempo or find the track speed first with the Song BPM Finder.
What Is a Metronome?
A metronome produces evenly spaced beats at a selected tempo. Musicians use those beats as a timing reference when practicing scales, chord changes, rhythm patterns, songs, technical exercises, and difficult passages.
Tempo is measured in BPM.
For example:
- 60 BPM = one beat every second
- 90 BPM = 1.5 beats per second
- 120 BPM = two beats per second
- 180 BPM = three beats per second
A metronome helps you hear whether you are speeding up, slowing down, or maintaining a consistent pulse.
If you want to understand tempo measurement in more detail, read What Is BPM? and BPM vs Tempo.
Practice Different Time Signatures
The metronome can organize clicks according to the meter you are practicing rather than producing an endless sequence of identical beats.
4/4 Time
In 4/4, each measure contains four quarter-note beats:
ONE – two – three – four
Use the dedicated 4/4 Metronome when you want focused common-time practice.
3/4 Time
In 3/4, each measure contains three quarter-note beats:
ONE – two – three
It is commonly associated with waltz and other triple-meter music. You can practice it separately with the 3/4 Metronome.
6/8 Time
6/8 is usually felt as two larger beats divided into groups of three:
ONE-two-three | FOUR-five-six
For compound-meter practice, use the 6/8 Metronome.
5/4 Time
5/4 contains five quarter-note beats and is often grouped as:
3+2: ONE-two-three | FOUR-five
or:
2+3: ONE-two | THREE-four-five
The 5/4 Metronome gives you a dedicated environment for practicing these odd-meter groupings.
Use Subdivisions to Improve Rhythm
Subdivisions help you hear what happens between the main beats.
This metronome includes:
- Quarter notes
- Eighth notes
- Triplets
- Sixteenth notes
For example, if the metronome is set to 60 BPM, a quarter-note click occurs once per second. Eighth-note subdivisions divide each beat into two equal parts, triplets divide it into three, and sixteenth notes divide it into four.
Subdivision practice is useful for strumming, picking, drum coordination, fast piano passages, vocal rhythms, and improving overall rhythmic accuracy.
Customize Beat Accents
Each beat can be set to Accent, Normal, or Mute.
This allows you to build a click pattern that matches the actual rhythmic structure of the music.
For example, in 4/4 you might strongly accent beat 1. In 5/4, you could emphasize beats 1 and 4 for a 3+2 pattern.
Custom accents are especially helpful when practicing odd meters, syncopation, backbeats, or exercises where you want fewer external timing cues.
Use Tap Tempo
Tap Tempo lets you estimate BPM from the rhythm you hear.
Tap repeatedly on the main beat, and the metronome calculates an approximate tempo from your taps. This is useful when matching a recording, remembering a tempo by feel, or quickly setting up a practice session.
For more detailed tempo work, try the Tempo Calculator.
Build Speed With the Tempo Trainer
The Tempo Trainer automatically increases your BPM after a chosen number of measures.
For example:
Start: 80 BPM
Increase: 5 BPM
Every: 8 measures
Target: 120 BPM
This lets you focus on playing instead of stopping repeatedly to adjust the tempo.
Start at a speed where you can perform accurately. Increase the BPM only while your rhythm and technique remain controlled.
Strengthen Internal Timing With Gap Practice
Gap Practice alternates audible measures with silent measures.
For example:
4 measures with click → 1 silent measure
Continue playing through the silent bar and try to maintain the same pulse. When the metronome returns, check whether you are still aligned with the beat.
This is one of the most useful ways to move from simply following a click to developing stronger internal time.
Practice With a Metronome More Effectively
Do not always begin at your final performance tempo.
If a passage becomes inaccurate at 120 BPM, reduce it to a speed where every note is controlled. Then increase gradually:
80 → 85 → 90 → 95 BPM
If mistakes return, move back to the previous clean tempo.
Slow practice is especially valuable because longer spaces between clicks require you to maintain more of the pulse yourself.
For exact tempo-to-time conversions, use the BPM to Milliseconds Calculator.
Who Can Use This Metronome?
This online metronome works for almost any rhythm-based practice.
Guitarists can use it for chord changes, strumming, scales, riffs, alternate picking, and speed exercises.
Pianists can practice scales, arpeggios, sight-reading, hand coordination, and difficult passages.
Drummers can work on grooves, subdivisions, fills, coordination, and internal timing.
Singers can use it for rhythmic entrances, phrasing, breath planning, and warmups.
Producers can practice or record against a consistent project tempo and use the same BPM for timing-related effects.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an online metronome?
An online metronome is a browser-based tool that produces a steady beat at a selected BPM for music and rhythm practice.
What BPM range does this metronome support?
You can set tempos from 20 to 300 BPM.
Which time signatures are available?
The tool supports 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, and 12/8.
Can I practice subdivisions?
Yes. You can use quarter-note, eighth-note, triplet, and sixteenth-note subdivisions.
What is Tap Tempo?
Tap Tempo estimates BPM based on the speed of your repeated taps.
What is Gap Practice?
Gap Practice temporarily removes the click so you can test whether you can maintain the tempo internally.
What does the Tempo Trainer do?
It gradually increases the BPM according to your selected settings until the target tempo is reached.
Do I need to install an app?
No. The metronome runs directly in your browser.