Online Metronome
A steady pulse for your practice. Set the tempo, pick a time signature, and start. No sign up and nothing to install. It keeps working if your connection drops.
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Practising with a Metronome, Properly
A metronome does not make you play in time on its own. It shows you where you are not in time. Here is how we ask students to use it.
Learn the Notes First
Work out which notes and fingerings the passage uses before the metronome goes on. Adding a pulse while you are still hunting for notes just adds pressure.
Start Slower than Feels Right
Set a tempo where you can play the passage accurately every time. For a hard bar that might be half the target speed. Accuracy first, always.
Three Clean Repetitions, Then Move Up
Play it correctly three times in a row before raising the tempo. Move in small steps, about five BPM. If a mistake creeps back in, drop down again.
Check the Joins
Once a hard bar is up to speed, play it with the bar before and the bar after. Passages usually fall apart at the joins rather than in the middle.
Exam boards test steady pulse directly. Trinity and ABRSM both include technical work and sight reading where timing counts, so metronome practice is part of our curriculum from early on.
Using a Metronome
Slower than feels comfortable. The right practice tempo is the fastest one at which you can play a passage accurately every single time. If you are making mistakes, the tempo is too high. Set it low, get three clean repetitions, then raise it by about five BPM and repeat.
Yes, but not for everything. Use it for scales, technical work, and any passage where the timing is uneven. Do not use it while you are still working out which notes to play. Learn the notes first, then bring the metronome in to make the rhythm steady.
It plays a higher click on beat one of each bar, which helps you feel where the bar starts. This matters for pieces in three or six, where losing track of beat one is easy. Turn it off if you only want a plain pulse.
Tap the button in time with music you are hearing, at least twice, and the metronome works out the tempo from the gaps between your taps. It averages your last few taps, so tapping four or five times gives a more accurate reading than two.
They are the traditional Italian words for speed that appear at the top of printed music. Largo is very slow, Adagio slow, Andante a walking pace, Moderato moderate, Allegro fast, and Presto very fast. The BPM ranges shown here are the common conventions, though composers and editions vary.
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