Online Metronome
An online metronome is a device that produces a sound (a click, beep, or ping, etc) in a steady tempo. Metronomes are used by musicians to train rhythm skills (playing in time), and understanding (internalizing) different tempos. Metronomes range from very simple to complex.
This metronome is a simple one click per beat.
Use this metronome when you practice scales. When you play scales, experiment with the following rhythmic figures.
First, let's play single tones (playing each tone of the scale only once). Set the device at something slow, such as 63, and start with quarter notes - one tone per beat (click). Then move onto 8th notes - 2 tones per beat (click). Move through the list of figures, playing the scale again and again.
Next, try the all of the same figures on repeated tones (play the rhythmic figure on each tone of the scale).
Quarter notes (typically one per beat - in common time), can be broken into all of the figures shown following the first quarter note in the table below. [A typical way we count the figure is in brackets].
Basic Rhythmic Figures
 - Quarter Note
[1]
|
 - Eighth Notes
[1-and] |
 -
Eighth Note Triplets [tri-po-let] or [1-trip-let, 2-trip-let] |
 - Sixteenth Notes
[1-e-and-a] |
More Figures based on Sixteenths
How to count the figure is in brackets.
 - [1- -and-a] |
 - [1-e-and- ] |
 - [1- - -a] |
 - [1-e- - ] |
 - [1-e- -a] |
 - [ - -and-a] |
