Quick Start
Open the metronome panel in the corner 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, so any exercise you open is one click away from being practiced properly.