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Metronome

Clicks are scheduled on the browser's audio clock, and the rings and beat lights are drawn from those same times.

100 BPM Andante

Turn the dial, or hold − / + to change faster.

Accent grid: press a beat to change it (strong, medium, weak, muted).

Settings

Time signature
Subdivision (clicks per beat)

Sound

Above 180 BPM, and with calm motion on, the big rings are replaced by a small dot so the page never flashes more than three times a second.

Practice tools

Count-in (before the first bar)

Starts at one tempo and speeds up by itself every few bars.

Plays some bars, then stays silent for some bars while the lights keep going. Can you stay in time?

Polyrhythm (a second sound, spread evenly across the bar)

Off. Try 3 in 4/4 for three against four.

Practice timer

This session 0:00 Today 0:00

Counts while the metronome plays. Kept in this browser only: nothing leaves your device.

Tala

A tala is a repeating rhythm cycle in Indian classical music. Picking one sets the beats, the sections and the accents; BPM then counts matras (beats of the cycle).

Hindustani signs: X sam, the first matra of the cycle; 2, 3, 4 tali, a clap; 0 khali, a wave of the hand. Lines between the dots mark the vibhags (sections). Rupak starts on khali: its sam and khali fall together on matra 1.

Carnatic Adi tala: a laghu (a clap and three finger counts) and two dhrutams (a clap and a wave).

Sounds are this metronome's choice: sam strong, tali and claps medium, khali and waves a separate softer sound. Dots show matra numbers, not bols. Laya words under the tempo (with Indian terms on) are a rough guide only.

Presets and sharing

No presets saved yet. You can keep up to 20.

    Share a link

    A teacher can send the link to a student: it opens the metronome with the same settings, without starting it. Presets stay in this browser only; nothing leaves your device.

    Keyboard shortcuts

    • Spacestart or stop
    • ↑ ↓tempo up or down by 1 (hold Shift for 10)
    • B or Entertap tempo
    • 1 to 9change the accent of that beat
    • Sswing on or off (x/4 time signatures)
    • Ccount-in: off, 1 bar, 2 bars
    • Ttempo trainer on or off
    • Vnext sound
    • Lcopy a link to this setup
    • Ggo to the tuner (works on every page; M brings you back here)

    Shortcuts pause while you type in a field. When the tempo dial has focus, the arrow keys, Page Up/Page Down (10) and Home/End work on the dial.

    Letter, number and punctuation shortcuts can be turned off: use the Keyboard shortcuts switch in the footer, under Display. Space, Enter, the arrow keys and Esc keep working.

    Tips

    • On a phone, turn off silent mode if you hear nothing. Some phones mute web audio in silent mode.
    • Keep this tab in front for the steadiest timing. Browsers slow down timers in background tabs.
    • In x/8 time signatures each click is an eighth note (quaver). In 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 you can choose whether BPM counts eighths or dotted quarters.
    • For swing, choose 2 clicks per beat in a x/4 time signature; the swing slider then appears.
    • Your settings, presets and practice time are remembered on this device only.