Practice guitar chord changes, strumming, picking, scales, and riffs with subdivisions, custom beat accents, automatic tempo increases, and a focused practice timer.
A guitar metronome provides a steady rhythmic reference for fretting-hand changes and picking-hand movement. It helps reveal whether a chord, scale, riff, or strumming pattern stays even when the tempo increases.
This page starts at 80 BPM with eighth-note subdivisions and a wood-style click. Those defaults suit common strumming and picking exercises, but every setting remains adjustable.
Assign one chord to each beat or bar, then increase the BPM only when every change lands cleanly.
Use eighths or sixteenths to align alternate picking with fretting-hand notes.
Accent the backbeat or selected beats to rehearse pop, rock, funk, and acoustic rhythm patterns.
Use Tempo Trainer to raise the BPM automatically after several accurate bars.
Choose a tempo that leaves enough attention for relaxed hands, clean fretting, and consistent tone.
Isolate the chord change, picking fragment, scale position, or one-bar riff that loses time.
Use the main beat for chord changes, eighths for common strumming and picking, triplets for shuffle feels, or sixteenths for detailed rhythm work.
Stay at the current BPM until notes, rests, muting, and accents remain consistent for several repetitions.
Turn on Tempo Trainer and add 2 to 5 BPM every 4 or 8 bars until you reach the target speed.
Match the metronome settings to the specific timing problem instead of using one practice pattern for everything.
Change once per bar, then once per beat, while keeping unused strings quiet and the strum aligned with the click.
Assign downstrokes and upstrokes to subdivisions and listen for notes that arrive early or late.
Play one, two, three, or four notes per beat to develop even spacing across strings and position shifts.
Use custom accents to reinforce beats two and four, syncopation, muted strokes, or a six-beat 6/8 pattern.
| Practice goal | Starting pulse | Suggested settings |
|---|---|---|
| Chord changes | 60-80 BPM | 4/4, main beat, accent beat 1 |
| Strumming | 70-100 BPM | 4/4, eighth notes, accent 2 and 4 |
| Alternate picking | 60-90 BPM | Eighths or sixteenths, even accents |
| Shuffle or blues | 60-100 BPM | Triplets, accent the main beat |
| Speed building | Clean current tempo | Tempo Trainer, +2 BPM every 4 bars |
A recording makes rushing, dragging, string noise, and uneven note lengths easier to hear.
Reduce the tempo when tension, missed strings, fret buzz, or timing errors start to accumulate.
Once the part is stable, return to the main beat so your internal timing carries the spaces between clicks.
Start around 50 to 80 BPM, then choose the slowest tempo that allows clean chord changes or notes without pausing between beats.
Use eighths for basic strumming and alternate picking. Use sixteenths when the part contains four evenly spaced attacks per beat or needs a finer timing reference.
Begin with one chord per bar. When each change is clean, move to one chord every two beats and then one chord per beat.
Start at a clean tempo, use small 2 to 5 BPM increases, keep both hands relaxed, and reduce the tempo as soon as accuracy or tone deteriorates.
Accent beat one for general counting, beats two and four for many rock and pop grooves, or choose the accents that match the actual rhythm pattern.
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