Quick Start
Tap the tempo pill in the header to open the metronome along the bottom of the screen. Type a tempo (or drag the slider), choose beats per bar — 2/4 through 7/8 — and press play. The first beat of each bar is accented so you always know where "1" is.
What Tempo Should I Practice At?
- Learning something new: slower than feels necessary — ♩ = 50–70. If it feels boring, it's right. (See Slow Practice.)
- Cleaning something up: 10 BPM below the tempo where it falls apart, then move up in small steps.
- Building speed: raise the tempo ~10% only after a passage is 100% clean for two unbroken minutes.
Three Metronome Games
A click doesn't have to mark every beat. Three ways to make it harder and more useful, from Practicing with a Metronome:
- Click on 2 and 4 — halve the tempo and hear the click as the backbeat. The click becomes a bandmate instead of a ruler.
- Click once per bar — you hold the time for three beats alone and the click grades you on beat 1.
- Subdivision check — play 8ths or 16ths against a quarter click and listen for the notes between clicks drifting.
The metronome follows you to every lesson on the site. The sound does not: a browser only lets audio start from a tap on the page you are looking at, so opening a new lesson pauses the click. The dock comes back open with your tempo and meter still set and the play button waiting — one press and it is running again.