Good timing is what makes simple playing sound professional, and a metronome is the fastest way to build it. This one is made for guitar practice. Besides the classic beep and woodblock, it can click with a muted-string tick or a knock on the guitar body, sounds that sit naturally under your playing instead of cutting through it.
Every click is scheduled ahead of time on the audio clock, the same clock the sound card uses, rather than on the page’s timers. That keeps the beat exact for as long as you play, even at 300 beats per minute, and it keeps going when you switch to another app or lock the screen while it plays.
Set the tempo by dragging, typing an exact number, using the arrow keys, or tapping along with a song. Choose any number of beats in a bar, then tap each beat to make it accented, normal or silent, so odd patterns like 7/8 or a clave are easy. Subdivisions add eighths, triplets or sixteenths at their own volume, and swing pushes the off-beats late for blues and jazz.
Two trainers live in Advanced. The speed trainer raises (or lowers) the tempo by a set amount every few bars until it reaches your target, then returns to your starting tempo next time. The gap trainer clicks for a few bars and then goes silent, so you find out whether you can keep the beat on your own.