Online Metronome — Sample-Accurate Practice Click

A tempo ladder from 80 BPM to 120

The online metronome plays a sample-accurate click at any tempo, with a tap tempo, adjustable beats per bar and an accented downbeat. Here's a practice ladder that actually works. Set 80 BPM with 4 beats per bar: 60 ÷ 80 means a click every 0.75 seconds, so each bar lasts 3 seconds. Play the passage clean twice, nudge to 90, then 100 — at 100 BPM the clicks come every 0.6 seconds. Keep climbing in tens until the target, say 120, where a click lands every half second. If the passage collapses at a new tempo, that's information: drop back 5 below your last clean speed and rebuild.

Tap tempo is the shortcut most players never notice. Play the recording you're learning, tap the button four or five times in rhythm with it, and the metronome settles onto that speed — no more guessing whether the track sits at 96 or 104. Then set beats-per-bar to match the music: 3 for a waltz, 6 for compound feels, so the accent lands where the downbeat lives. A metronome that accents the wrong beat trains the wrong pulse, and fixing that later is tedious.