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This metronome keeps time. It won't make you faster.
That's not a knock on it — it's the honest limit of every metronome, online or otherwise. It clicks at whatever number you set, and it will happily click at that number forever while you stay stuck there.
The thing that actually gets a passage up to speed is ramping: playing it clean at a tempo you can handle, nudging the tempo up a few BPM, playing it clean again, and repeating until you arrive at speed without ever having practised it badly. Done by hand, that means stopping every couple of minutes to reach over and change the number — which is exactly when most people give up and just play it too fast.
RhythmRamp does the reaching for you. Set a start tempo, a target, and a step size, and it walks the tempo up while you keep playing.
See how tempo ramping worksQuestions people ask about metronomes
This one schedules every click directly onto the Web Audio clock, which is sample-accurate, instead of firing clicks from a JavaScript timer that drifts. That makes it reliable for everyday practice at a desk.
Where any browser metronome struggles is the world outside the tab: switch apps, lock your phone, or let the OS throttle a background tab, and the click can stutter or stop. That's the honest reason a native app is the better tool for a rehearsal or a gig — not marketing, just how browsers work.
Tap tempo works out the BPM of a song from your own tapping. Play the track, tap the Tap tempo button along with the beat four or five times, and the metronome averages the gaps between taps to land on the tempo. Pause for a couple of seconds and it starts a fresh count, so you can try again without a stale tap dragging the average around.
Slower than you want to. Start at a tempo where you can play the passage with no mistakes at all — if that feels insultingly slow, it's probably right. Then move up in small steps, roughly 4–5 BPM, and only after a clean repetition.
Playing a passage too fast doesn't teach you to play it fast. It teaches you to play it wrong, reliably, and that's much harder to undo than learning it slowly in the first place.
Usually because you're listening to it instead of playing with it. A useful test: set the metronome to click only on beats 2 and 4, or mute a bar entirely and keep playing through the silence. If you're still with the click when it comes back, your time is solid. If you've drifted, you've found the thing to work on — and that's far more useful than a click you're just chasing.
RhythmRamp has beat muting built in for exactly this.
Yes. No sign-up, no account, no ads, no trial that turns into a subscription. It's here because we make a metronome app and we'd rather you got to know us by using something useful than by watching a video about it.
When the browser tab isn't enough
RhythmRamp is the practice metronome that ramps its own tempo — plus a chromatic tuner, setlists, practice analytics, and Band Sync that locks your whole band to one click. $4.99 once. No subscription, no ads.
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