🥁 Online Metronome

How to Use This Online Metronome

Set your BPM with the slider or ±1/±10 buttons. Use Tap Tempo to match a song's speed — tap 4+ times in rhythm. Pick your time signature, subdivision, and sound type, then hit play. Press Spacebar to play/pause hands-free.

Subdivisions Explained

Quarter note — one click per beat, the standard for most practice. Eighth notes — two clicks per beat, great for faster passages. Triplets — three per beat, essential for blues and swing feels. Sixteenth notes — four per beat for highly detailed rhythmic work. Dotted eighth — creates the lilting, syncopated feel found in compound meters and swing.

How to Practice Effectively with a Metronome

The most common mistake musicians make is practicing too fast, too soon. Always start at a tempo where you can play a passage cleanly — even if that means 60 BPM on something that should eventually be 140. Increase by 5 BPM only after you can play the passage correctly three times in a row at the current tempo. This method builds genuine technical progress rather than reinforcing mistakes.

Use the time signature setting to match your piece — 3/4 for waltzes and minuets, 6/8 for compound time, 5/4 and 7/8 for more advanced contemporary repertoire. The No Emphasis toggle removes the accent on beat 1, which is a great intermediate drill to develop your own internal pulse without relying on the downbeat cue.

Free Metronome for Music Students in North Atlanta

This free online metronome is available to all music students — whether you take lessons with us or practice independently. At Soul Music Lessons, we serve students across Suwanee, Cumming, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton, Roswell, Duluth, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Sugar Hill, Buford, Berkeley Lake, and Woodstock in North Metro Atlanta, Georgia. Our instructors teach violin, viola, piano, guitar, music theory, ear training, and composition — and metronome work is part of every lesson from day one.