---
title: "Online Metronome with Accents & Tap Tempo | Tap Parade"
description: "Free online metronome, 20 to 300 BPM: accents, time signatures, subdivisions, tap tempo, a speed trainer and keyboard shortcuts. No sign-up, no app."
url: https://tapparade.click/
---

Free online metronome

# Metronome

Set a tempo, pick a time signature and press Start. Tap the beat lights to change accents.

## How to practise with the metronome

Choose a tempo with the slider, the plus and minus buttons, the number box or **Tap tempo**: tap along with a song four or more times and the metronome takes the average. The Italian word under the number, such as *Andante* or *Allegro*, is the traditional name for that speed range; treat it as a loose guide, since sources draw the lines a little differently.

The **beats per bar** and **beat note** make the time signature. Each circle under the drum is one beat. Activate a circle to cycle it through *strong accent* (^), *accent* (>), *normal* (•) and *silent* (×). Silencing beats is a good test: if you can keep time through a silent beat, the time is in you and not only in the click.

**Subdivision** adds quieter clicks inside each beat: eighths, triplets, sixteenths or swing eighths, where the second note of each pair lands on the last third of the beat. The **speed trainer** adds a few BPM every few bars until it reaches the tempo you set, which is a simple way to build up a fast passage without jumping straight to full speed.

## More tools in the parade

- [Tap tempo](https://tapparade.click/tap-tempo/): Tap along to any song to find its BPM, with an average, a steadiness score and half or double time. Find the BPM
- [Chromatic tuner](https://tapparade.click/online-tuner/): Tune guitar, bass, ukulele, violin and more with your microphone, at any A4 reference from 415 to 466 Hz. Tune up
- [BPM to ms](https://tapparade.click/bpm-to-ms/): Delay and reverb times for every note value, dotted and triplet, plus an ms to Hz converter. Get delay times
- [Drum machine](https://tapparade.click/drum-machine/): Program a 16-step beat with synthesized kick, snare, claps and hats, add swing and save it as a WAV loop. Make a beat

## Recommended

Two free tools from outside the band room that come in handy when you are online looking for music gear, sample packs or lessons.

Temporary email

### CleanTempMail

Free sample packs, plugin demos and gig-listing sites often want an email address before you get anything. CleanTempMail gives you an instant disposable inbox with no sign-up, and the messages delete themselves after three days, so the follow-up newsletters never reach your real address.

[Get a temporary inbox](https://cleantempmail.com/)

Disposable browser

### WebTraceCheck

Found a backing-track site or a free plugin download you have never heard of? WebTraceCheck opens it in a cloud browser on an isolated Linux desktop that is deleted after each session, so you can look the site over before trusting it on your own machine. Free daily time, nothing to install.

[Try the cloud browser](https://webtracecheck.com/)

## Questions

**Which note gets the beat in 6/8 or 2/2?**

Here the BPM always counts the bottom number of the time signature. In 6/8 at 120, each eighth note is one click and the bar has six of them, with an accent on 1 and a lighter one on 4. If you would rather feel 6/8 in two big beats, set 2/4 with triplets at a third of the tempo: 40 BPM instead of 120.

**How accurate is an online metronome?**

Each click is placed on the Web Audio clock, which counts samples, a little ahead of time. That keeps the tempo exact to well under a millisecond, with no drift over long practice sessions. Bluetooth headphones delay every click by the same amount, so the tempo stays right even if the sound arrives late.

**Does it keep playing in a background tab?**

Yes. The timer that feeds the scheduler runs in a web worker, which browsers do not slow down the way they slow hidden pages. On a phone, locking the screen can still pause audio, so keep the screen on while you practise.