Practice guitar with a free online metronome

Let’s face it, guitar players are notorious for bad timing. That’s just the way it is.

The problem is timing is very important in music. So what now? Guitarists with bad timing shouldn’t play the guitar?!

Of course they should, thankfully God invented metronomes to help develop our rhythm. Actually, it was a guy call Johann Maelzel, who patented the first ever metronome in 1815.

So if your timing and sense of rhythm sucks and you want to do something about it, you’ll need a metronome. Now you have several choices here:

1. Buy a metronome at the store
2. Download a metronome app onto your smartphone
3. Use an online metronome

If you prefer the last, here is a great free online metronome developed by TheGuitarLesson.com. It has all the bells and whistles you would expect from an online metronome, and a few extra features to make life just a bit easier.

For example, complementing the tempo slider, they also have +10 and -10 tempo buttons, which makes changing tempo a bit easier and more exact than with the slider.

Also, it doesn’t use Flash, so it should play on Apple devices as well. I haven’t tested this, since I prefer Android, but if you do, please confirm this in a comment, I would be grateful.

And I think the metronome looks really cool as well, but that’s subjective I guess.

These little rhythm keeping devices have come a long way though, that’s for sure. Check out the animated image above, that’s how metronomes looked originally. Classy retro stuff fur sure, but now, with electronic metronomes, these originals have all but become a collectors item. Needless to say, the original mechanical metronomes were much more precise in keeping tempo than many online ones are, but the metronome on TheGuitarLesson.com does a good job.

Check it out if you are looking to improve your rhythm and timing, I’m sure you’ll like it.