Online Metronome

How to use this metronome

Set a tempo with the slider, the − / + buttons, or by tapping Tap tempo in time. Choose a time signature (beat one is accented; in 6/8 you'll hear accents on 1 and 4, the two big beats of compound time) and add subdivisions when you want eighths, triplets, or sixteenths filled in. If metronome practice is new to you, How to Practice With a Metronome covers how to pick tempos and build speed.

Ghost bars

Turning on Ghost bars silences the click for one measure at a time while the beat keeps going underneath. You keep playing through the silence, and when the click returns it tells you whether you rushed or dragged. Start with 3 on · 1 off, then graduate to alternating bars. This is one of the oldest rhythm-section exercises there is, and it works.

Test your timing

A metronome tells you where the beat is. The Pulse Meter tells you how close you are to it, in milliseconds, and its 60-second challenge drops the click out every other bar and scores what happens. Good for settling arguments about who rushes.

Common tempo markings