20–400 BPM, any time signature, five accent levels, subdivisions, swing, count-in, speed and gap trainers.
Swing pushes every second eighth note a little late, so “1 and 2 and” becomes a long-short, lilting “1 — a 2 — a”. It is the feel of blues shuffles, jazz, country swing and a lot of rock and roll.
The metronome above plays swung eighth notes at 120 BPM with swing at 50%, close to the classic triplet feel. Turn swing up for a harder shuffle or down toward straight eighths. It works on sixteenths too, for funk and hip-hop.
Play a blues shuffle pattern on the low strings and match its long-short rhythm to the clicks.
Play the open A string together with the 2nd fret of the D string (an A5 power chord), and on every second eighth note move that finger up to the 4th fret (A6): the classic boogie shuffle. Play it straight with swing at 0%, then turn swing up to 50% and notice how the same notes start to bounce. Strum chords the same way: down on the beat, up on the late “a”.
Playing pairs of eighth notes unevenly, the first longer than the second, so the rhythm lilts instead of marching.
Close: swing at about 50% places the off-beat on the last third of the beat, like a triplet with the middle note left out.