Free interactive tool
Online Metronome with Subdivisions
Set a tempo, choose a subdivision, and feel the grid every musician counts on.
Feel the tempo you set
Choose a tempo and a subdivision, press play, and watch the pulse travel the bar.
Tempo is arithmetic you can feel: 60000 milliseconds divided by BPM is the space between beats, and every subdivision slices it further.
- Set 60 BPM and clap along, then 120 and halve your counting.
- At 100 BPM, how many milliseconds is one eighth note? Check against the readout.
Tempo is arithmetic you can feel: 60,000 milliseconds divided by BPM is the space between beats, and every subdivision slices it further. The grid shows two bars of 4/4 with the main beats standing tall.
Press play and the metronome clicks with an accented downbeat — practice slow enough to be accurate, because speed grows from accuracy and never the reverse.
What BPM should I practice at?
Slow enough that you never miss: many friends start at 60–80 BPM and add 4–8 BPM only after clean repetitions.
What does the subdivision change?
Notes per beat: eighths halve the gap, sixteenths quarter it — the pulse stays where it was.