Free Online Metronome With Accents, Subdivisions and a Speed Trainer

A metronome gives you a steady click to practice against, and this free online metronome keeps it steady: every click is scheduled on your browser's audio clock instead of a page timer. Set any tempo from 20 to 300 BPM, pick a time signature, accent the beats you want, add eighths, triplets or sixteenths, and let the speed trainer raise the tempo as you improve. Press Space to start.

20 to 300 BPM
Accents and Subdivisions
Speed Trainer
Tap Tempo

Andante4/4

BPM

Click a beat to switch it between accent, normal, soft and muted

Practice timer

Spacestart / stop
↑↓tempo ±1
Shift↑±10
TTap

Time signature

Subdivision

Sound

Speed trainer

From 100 BPM,stepBPM everybars, towardBPM

Turn it on, press Start and the tempo moves on the bar lines until it reaches the target. Stopping returns to your starting tempo.

Gap trainer

Playbars, then silent forbars

Clicks are timed on the Web Audio clock. Bluetooth speakers and headphones add a fixed delay to what you hear and see.

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Why This Metronome Keeps Steady Time

A metronome is only useful if it never wavers. Many web metronomes play a sound each time a page timer fires, and page timers run late whenever the browser is busy or the tab sits in the background, so the beat wobbles. This metronome books its clicks a moment ahead on the Web Audio clock, which runs on your sound hardware. Each click is placed at an exact sample time, so the spacing between beats stays even while you scroll, type or play for an hour. The beat lights fire at the moment each click reaches your speakers, so what you see matches what you hear.

Start the Click

Why Practicing With a Metronome Feels Hard

Most people who give up on the click run into one of these. Each one has a setting on this metronome that fixes it:

Starting too fast. Mistakes made at full speed get practiced too. Start where the passage is clean and let the speed trainer climb.
Long gaps at slow tempos. At 50 BPM a lone click leaves more than a second of silence. Add eighths or sixteenths to fill it.
The click disappears under your playing. Try another of the six sounds, raise the volume or accent beat one until you can hear it over your instrument.
Getting lost in odd meters. Accent the groups, 2+2+3 in 7/8 or beats 1 and 4 in 6/8, and the bar stops feeling random.
Leaning on the metronome. Mute beats, or let the gap trainer silence whole bars; your own sense of time has to fill the gaps.
Bluetooth delay. Wireless headphones add a fixed lag. The beat stays even, but wired headphones keep sound and lights together.

Fix Your Practice

Everything a Free Online Metronome Should Do

No app to install and no account. Open the metronome, set a tempo, press Space.

20 to 300 BPM
From a slow largo to fast bebop. Type the tempo, nudge it a step at a time, or tap it into the metronome.
Accents on any beat
Set any beat to accent, normal, soft or mute to build backbeats, clave patterns or odd-meter groupings.
Meters and subdivisions
Eight common time signatures plus custom meters, with eighths, triplets or sixteenths under each beat and a swing control.
A speed trainer
Let the metronome raise the tempo by a few BPM every few bars until you reach your goal, without stopping to change it.
Six sounds, a visual beat
Click, woodblock, beep, cowbell, hi-hat or sticks: preview each metronome sound and keep the one you hear best over your instrument, then follow the beat on screen too.
Shortcuts and memory
Space starts and stops, the arrow keys move the tempo by 1 BPM (10 with Shift), T taps, and your settings wait in this browser next time.

How to Use This Online Metronome

Four steps from a blank page to a click you can practice with. Your settings are kept for next time.

Type a BPM into the metronome, use the plus and minus buttons, or tap the beat to set it. Anything from 20 to 300 BPM works.
Pick 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8 or 12/8, or build a custom meter, then add eighths, triplets or sixteenths if you want them.
Click a metronome beat to cycle it through accent, normal, soft and muted, and pick the sound you hear best over your instrument.
Press Start or the Space bar. Turn on the speed trainer if you want the metronome to raise the tempo as you play.

Step 1 · Set the tempo

Metronome Features Built for Real Practice

What separates a practice tool from a plain metronome online: control over every beat, and help getting faster.

Accents you can click

Every beat in the bar is a button. Click it to cycle through accent, normal, soft and muted. Accent 2 and 4 for a backbeat, mute everything but beat one to test yourself, or mark the groups of an odd meter: 7/8 starts as 2+2+3 and 6/8 leans on beats 1 and 4.

Shape the Bar

Subdivisions and odd meters

Hear each beat split into two, three or four quieter clicks: eighth notes, triplets or sixteenths under a quarter note pulse, with their own volume and a swing control for shuffles. Pair them with 5/4, 7/8 or 12/8 and this online metronome keeps the groups clear.

Add Subdivisions

A speed trainer that climbs with you

Set a step, how many bars to play at each tempo and a target, and the metronome changes the tempo on the bar line until it gets there, up or down. You keep playing; the click does the counting. The metronome gap trainer can also silence whole bars to test your time, and a practice timer stops the click after 1 to 30 minutes.

Train Your Speed

From tap to metronome in one move

Hear a tempo you want to practice at? Tap it on the metronome's tap button, or press T, and the BPM follows your taps; press Start and you are playing at it. The metronome tapper averages your recent taps, so a few even ones are enough, and a two-second pause starts a new count. For a readout with a stability meter, use tap tempo.

Tap a Tempo

See the beat, drive it from the keyboard

Large metronome beat lights show where you are in the bar, readable from across the room. Space starts and stops, the arrow keys nudge the tempo and T taps it, and the screen is kept awake while the metronome plays, on browsers that allow it.

Try the Shortcuts

A Speed Trainer Session on This Metronome

A real practice plan: start at 80 BPM in 4/4, add 4 BPM every 4 bars, stop at 120. Below is every step the metronome takes.

What you are looking at

Eleven tempos from 80 to 120 BPM, four bars each: 44 bars and about 1 minute 47 seconds of playing. The tempo changes on each bar line, then holds at 120. If a step feels rough, stop, lower the start tempo and run the metronome plan again; the plan is only useful if every step stays clean.

Try It Yourself

How to Practice With a Metronome

The click helps most when you use it on purpose. Four habits that turn a metronome into a teacher.

Slow, clean, then faster

Find a tempo where the passage is clean three times running, then add 2 to 5 BPM on the metronome. When mistakes creep in, drop back to the last easy tempo.

Listen for where you land

If the click vanishes under your note, you are on it. Hear it before your note and you are dragging; hear it after and you are rushing.

Put the click on 2 and 4

Accent beats 2 and 4 and mute 1 and 3 for the backbeat feel of jazz, funk and pop. It is harder than it sounds, and it teaches groove.

Take beats away

Mute everything but beat one, or let the gap trainer drop whole bars, and see if you still land with the click when it comes back.

Online Metronome vs Mechanical Metronome vs Phone App

A wind-up metronome needs no power, a phone app goes anywhere, and a metronome online needs only a browser. How they compare on the features people use most.

Online Metronome vs Mechanical Metronome vs Phone App
	This siteToMIDI metronome	Mechanical metronome	Typical phone app
Cost	Free	A device to buy	Free to paid
Tempo range	20 to 300 BPM	About 40 to 208 BPM	Varies
Accents	Accent, normal, soft or mute on any beat	A bell on beat one on some models	Varies
Sounds	Six, from click to cowbell	The tick of the pendulum	Varies
Subdivisions	Eighths, triplets, sixteenths	No	Varies
Odd time signatures	Yes	No	Varies
Speed trainer	Yes	No	Varies
Tap tempo	Yes	No	Varies
Works without a screen or battery	No	Yes	No

Metronome Markings: Italian Tempo Terms in BPM

Scores often give the tempo as a word. These are the ranges behind the marking this metronome shows above the BPM, slowest first; references differ by a few BPM, so treat them as a starting point.

Metronome Markings: Italian Tempo Terms in BPM
	Meaning	Typical BPM
Grave	Very slow, solemn	Below 40
Largo	Broad, slow	40 to 60
Larghetto	A little less slow	60 to 66
Adagio	Slow, at ease	66 to 76
Andante	At a walking pace	76 to 108
Moderato	Moderate	108 to 120
Allegro	Fast, bright	120 to 156
Vivace	Lively	156 to 176
Presto	Very fast	176 to 200
Prestissimo	As fast as possible	200 and up

Who Uses a Metronome Online

Anyone who wants steadier time, from a first lesson to a session gig.

Students and teachers

Practice scales, etudes and pieces with the metronome at the marked tempo, then raise it a little each week. A free online metronome means every student has one on any device.

Drummers

Accent the backbeat on the metronome, mute beats to test your inner clock, and use sixteenths or triplets to tighten fills and shuffles.

Guitarists and bassists

Build speed on runs and riffs with the metronome speed trainer, and lock a bass line to the click before you play it with a drummer. Tune first with the online tuner.

Pianists

Keep both hands even through a tricky passage, and learn a piece slowly with the metronome before taking it to tempo.

Singers and songwriters

Keep a steady pulse while you write or rehearse, then hum the idea over the click and turn it into notes with the audio to MIDI converter.

Bands and producers

Rehearse to a click before tracking, or match a song's tempo first with the BPM finder and set the metronome to it.

Metronome FAQ

Straight answers about practicing with a metronome online.

Is this online metronome free?

Yes. The metronome is free, with no sign-up and nothing to install. It runs in your browser and nothing is recorded or uploaded.

How do I use an online metronome?

Set the metronome tempo by typing a BPM, using the slider or the plus and minus buttons, or tapping; pick a time signature and a subdivision, then press Start or the Space bar. Click any beat to change its accent.

What tempo should I practice at?

Start where you can play the passage cleanly and relaxed, often two-thirds to three-quarters of the target speed. Play it right a few times, raise the metronome by 2 to 5 BPM and repeat. The speed trainer can do the raising for you.

How do I set 6/8 on a metronome?

Choose 6/8 as the time signature. Most music in 6/8 is felt as two groups of three eighth notes, so the metronome leans on beats 1 and 4 by default. Here the BPM counts eighth notes; if your score marks dotted quarters, set 2/4 with triplets and use that number instead.

What does a metronome subdivision do?

It splits each metronome beat into smaller, quieter clicks: two for eighths, three for triplets, four for sixteenths. It is the most useful setting at slow tempos, where the gap between beats is long enough for your timing to drift.

Can I accent or mute single beats?

Yes. Each beat in the metronome bar can be accent, normal, soft or mute. Use it for a backbeat on 2 and 4, for odd-meter groupings, or to mute beats and test your own time.

How does the speed trainer work?

Set a step in BPM, how many bars to play at each tempo and a target. Press Start and the metronome moves the tempo by that step on the bar line each time the bar count is reached, then holds once it hits the target. Set a lower target to slow down instead; press Stop and it goes back to your starting tempo.

Can I tap a tempo into the metronome?

Yes. Use the metronome tap button or press T in time with a song, or with the speed you hear in your head: the tempo is set from the average of your recent taps, and a two-second pause starts a new count. For a readout with a stability meter, use tap tempo.

Will the metronome keep time if I switch tabs?

It is built for it: clicks are booked ahead on the audio clock rather than fired by a page timer, and when the tab is hidden the scheduler queues them further ahead, because browsers slow page timers there. We have not tested every browser in a background tab yet, so for a long session keep the metronome tab in view.

Why do I hear the metronome late with Bluetooth headphones?

Bluetooth audio is buffered before it plays, which adds a fixed delay. The metronome clicks stay evenly spaced, so your practice timing is fine, but they arrive after the beat lights. Wired headphones or speakers keep the two together.

What BPM is Andante or Allegro?

As this metronome marks them, Andante runs about 76 to 108 BPM and Allegro about 120 to 156. The table above lists the other common markings. When a score gives only a word, choose a tempo inside the range that keeps the fastest notes clear.

Does it remember my settings?

Yes. Tempo, time signature, accents, sound and trainer settings are saved in this browser, so the metronome opens the way you left it. Nothing is stored on a server, and a link such as /metronome?bpm=72 opens it at that tempo.

Do I need a metronome app?

No. This online metronome runs in a modern browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Bookmark the page and it opens like an app, with nothing to download.

How do I find the tempo of a song to practice with?

Tap along with the recording on tap tempo, or drop the audio file into the BPM finder. Then set the metronome to that BPM, or a little slower while you learn the part.

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