Dial in a tempo, tap it out on your own beat, choose a time signature and let the accented downbeat keep you honest. Built with the Web Audio API for a steady, responsive click.
A metronome is one of the oldest practice tools in music, and one of the least forgiving — a click that drifts or stutters is worse than no click at all. TimerHub's Metronome is built around a lookahead-style audio scheduler rather than a simple on-screen timer, so the beat stays steady at everything from a slow 30 BPM warm-up to a 250 BPM technical run, with a visible pulse and accented downbeat to match.
Set your tempo by typing a BPM value directly, using the plus and minus buttons for fine adjustments, or tapping the "Tap Tempo" button in rhythm — after a few taps it calculates your BPM automatically. Choose a time signature to control how many beats are in each measure and which beat is accented. Press the center play button to start the click, adjust the volume slider at any time, and switch to fullscreen for a large, glanceable pulse display in a practice room or on a music stand.
Instrument practice. Lock in timing on scales, etudes and repertoire at any tempo. Band rehearsal. Give the whole group a shared, audible tempo reference during a run-through. Tempo training. Gradually increase BPM on a difficult passage as your accuracy improves. Dance practice. Count choreography against a steady, accented beat. Marching band. Drill step timing and cadence changes against a fixed click before taking it to the field.
Practice slower than your performance tempo first — accuracy at a reduced BPM transfers to speed far more reliably than the other way around. Use the time signature's accented first beat to internalize where "one" falls in a measure, especially in less familiar meters like 6/8. If you're setting a tempo from a recording or a piece of sheet music, tap along with it a few times using Tap Tempo rather than guessing — it's usually more accurate than typing a number from memory.
Tap the button in time with the tempo you want — it measures the gaps between your last several taps and averages them into a BPM value. If you pause for more than about two seconds, it treats your next tap as the start of a fresh sequence rather than blending it with the old one.
The metronome supports 30 to 250 BPM, covering everything from a slow largo practice tempo to fast technical passages.
The first beat of every measure is accented with a slightly higher, sharper click, matching your chosen time signature. It's there to help you feel the downbeat without having to count beats visually.
Yes — switching signatures takes effect on the next beat, restarting the measure count so beat one lines up correctly with the accent.
It uses a lookahead-style Web Audio scheduler rather than a plain JavaScript timer, which keeps drift extremely low across normal practice tempos. It isn't quite sample-accurate the way dedicated studio hardware is, but it's steady enough for everyday practice and rehearsal use.
Yes — set the volume slider to zero and rely on the large visual pulse and the per-beat dot indicator, which flash in time with the beat whether or not sound is enabled.