Time Signature Metronome
Click any time signature below to open a metronome already set to that meter — no configuration needed. From common 4/4 to asymmetric 7/8.
How time signatures work
A time signature tells you how music is counted. The top number is how many beats fill each measure; the bottom number is the note value that gets one beat — so in 6/8 there are six eighth-note beats per measure.
Simple meters like 4/4 and 3/4 divide each beat in two; compound meters like 6/8 and 9/8 divide each beat in three; and asymmetric meters like 5/4 and 7/8 mix groups of two and three for an off-balance feel. Pick a meter below to practice it with a free, accurate metronome.
Simple meters
Beats divide evenly into two — the natural home of most Western music from marches to rock to Baroque counterpoint.
Compound meters
Beats divide into three — produces the lilting, triple-subdivision feel of jigs, barcarolles, and ''felt in six'' ballads.
Odd / Asymmetric meters
Beat counts that refuse even division — quintuple, septuple, and sextuple meters that create a characteristic lurch or asymmetric swing.
Free online metronome — set any time signature or tempo
BPM reference hub — Largo, Andante, Allegro, Presto
Metronome with subdivisions — eighth notes, triplets, sixteenths