Press play and practice. Tap tempo, time signatures from 2/4 to 13/8, subdivisions from eighths to septuplets, four click sounds, and accent control — the same feature set as the DrumShed app's metronome, running in your browser.
Drag the ring to set the tempo · hold the center for tap tempo · tap a beat bar to accent, soften, or mute it
Start below your target tempo. The click's job is to expose where your time slips, so pick a BPM at which you can play the thing correctly — then repeat it until it's boring. Raising the tempo about 5 BPM at a time, only after a clean repetition, gets you further in a month than grinding at a speed you can't control.
Turn on subdivisions when your notes feel approximately right but not locked. Hearing eighths or sixteenths underneath the beat tells you exactly which side of the grid you're landing on. Once a passage is solid with subdivisions, switch back to quarters — playing accurately against fewer reference points is the real skill.
Use the accent on beat 1 to keep your place in the bar, especially in odd meters like 5/4 or 7/8 where it's easy to lose the downbeat. And practice leaving the click: play four bars with it and four without, and notice whether it's still there when you come back. That gap is your internal clock.
If a chart gives you an Italian word instead of a number, here's the rough translation:
For the tempos actual songs live at, by genre, see the BPM guide.
Yes — completely free, no sign-up, no ads, and no limits. It runs entirely in your browser: the clicks are generated by your device rather than streamed, so nothing is downloaded and it keeps working if your connection drops.
Slower than feels necessary. Set the tempo where you can play the passage perfectly, then raise it by about 5 BPM once it is comfortable and repeatable. If your hands tense or notes flam, you have gone up too early — drop back down. Most useful practice happens between 60 and 100 BPM.
Tap the tempo button along with the music, at least four times, and the metronome takes the average of your taps and sets that BPM. It is the quickest way to find the tempo of a song you are listening to.
A subdivision fills the space between the main beats with quieter clicks — eighths give you two per beat, triplets three, sixteenths four. Practicing with subdivisions is the fastest way to tighten up where your notes sit inside the beat, because you hear the grid instead of guessing at it.
The audio itself is scheduled sample-accurately, so it is not drifting. Bluetooth headphones and speakers add real latency — often 100–200 ms — which shifts the sound relative to the flashing beat lights. Wired headphones or your device speaker will feel tighter.
It makes you an honest one, which amounts to the same thing. A click has no opinion about whether you rushed the fill: it simply keeps going, and playing against something indifferent is what builds an internal sense of time you can trust when there is no click.
A metronome tells you where the beat is. It won't tell you what to practice. That's what the DrumShed app adds: the same metronome with 18 click sounds and a shuffle and pocket click, plus timing drills that drop the click out and bring it back, tempo ramps, gap trainers, and a practice history that shows whether the habit is sticking. The metronome in the app is free forever too — see also metronome drills and the timing guide.
Free click. Forever.