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Online Metronome

Keep perfect time while you practice with an adjustable 20–300 BPM click, accented first beat, and time signatures from 2/4 to 7/4. The sound is generated live in your browser.

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The click is generated live in your browser — turn your volume up.

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How to use Online Metronome

An online metronome keeps a steady beat so you can practice an instrument, sing, or rehearse in perfect time. This one clicks at any tempo from 20 to 300 beats per minute, accents the first beat of each bar so you always know where the measure starts, and supports time signatures from 2/4 up to 7/4. The sound is generated live in your browser with the Web Audio API, so there is nothing to download, no latency from streaming, and it keeps working even offline once the page has loaded.

  1. Set your tempo with the slider or the plus and minus buttons.
  2. Choose a time signature for how many beats fall in each bar.
  3. Turn your device volume up.
  4. Press Start to begin the click.
  5. Press Stop when you are done.

Your data never leaves your device — 100% private processing.

How a metronome helps practice

Playing in time is a skill, and a metronome trains it by giving you an external, unforgiving pulse to lock onto. Practising with one exposes rushing and dragging that are hard to hear otherwise, and it lets you measure progress objectively: a passage you could only play cleanly at 80 BPM last week might be solid at 100 BPM today. The classic method is to set a tempo you can play perfectly, repeat the passage until it feels easy, then nudge the BPM up by a few points and repeat. Over weeks this incremental approach builds both speed and rock-solid timing.

Understanding time signatures

The time signature determines how many beats group into a bar, which controls where the accented downbeat falls. Common time, 4/4, has four beats per bar and underpins most pop and rock. Waltzes use 3/4, marches often 2/4, and many folk and progressive pieces use 5/4 or 7/4. Setting the right signature here means the accent lands on beat one of each measure, helping you feel the meter. Practising unusual meters with a clear accent is one of the fastest ways to make them feel natural rather than like counting maths.

Worked examples

Slow practice

Inputs: 70 BPM · 4/4

Result: Steady click with accent every 4 beats

Odd meter

Inputs: 120 BPM · 5/4

Result: Accent every 5th beat

Glossary

BPM
Beats per minute, the unit of musical tempo.
Downbeat
The first, accented beat of each bar.
Time signature
How many beats are grouped into one bar.
Tempo
The speed of the beat, set in BPM.

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