Tips & Insights from the Music Room Video Lesson: Online Metronomes

Hello and welcome. Today we're going to talk about online metronomes. And I'm going to give you seven online metronomes that can actually help you with your daily music practice.

So let's dive right in.

Alright, so if you start from Google and search for online metronome, it will be presented with several different options of course.

And the first metronome I want to talk about is the Google one, the one that is shown at the top of the search results, this one, which is very basic, but you know, if you don't need fancy functions, you can really use this one. It works pretty well, you can change the value of a bit per minute.

And it looks pretty good on a phone as well.

As you can see, you can use the same right here. Now the audio is not hearable, but it works pretty well. I mean, you can really use it inside a phone.

And so getting back to the results, the next one I want to talk about is this one from metronomeonline.com, which is actually a website made just for a metronome. And this one is pretty interesting.

Unfortunately, it has a lot of ads, but it's a little bit more fancy, even though its functions are still pretty basic.

So you can start it this way, you can change the tempo, this other way you can decide how many beats per minute you want to have.

And it's giving you also the tempo words here, adagio, andante, moderato, allegro. You can also actually give them, yeah, there is some buggy stuff going on here, but you can also tap your own tempo and should pick it up.

You see? Yeah, it doesn't work that perfectly, but it works pretty well.

And also you can change the time signature if you want to. Let me stop it. Okay. So if you want to do a three quarters, and you can also decide the kind of sound you want, if you want dark mode or not, you also have a 440 Hertz tuning sound, which may be useful.

And if you change the time signature, it's giving you an accent, according to the time signature you choose, in this case, the 6 8.

Yeah, you see, it can be pretty useful this.

And it works on the phone as well. As you can see, it's very well shown.

So you can use it on the go if you need to.

It's important to have a metronome, web online metronome that works on a phone as well. All right. So the next one I want to talk about is a next in line, which is from imusic-school.com.

And this metronome is very clean and has very interesting features.

You still have the basic features such as you can define the beats per minute, and you have the corresponding tempo word.

You can decide how many beats per bar you want. So if you have a piece in three quarters, you can define three here, and you can define the stress first beat.

So it just gives you the first beat highlighted.

Yeah, you can also define, which is very interesting, your own tap, as I've shown before.

But what is more interesting about this metronome is the fact that you can have subdivisions. So if you have a very slow piece of music, let's say in the two-quarters time signature, and you want to have subdivisions for every beat, you can have that by defining this option.

You can also have four for each beat.

Or if you have a compound time signature such as six eighths, you can have even the two blets defined here, or even this interesting swing subdivision.

And of course, underneath you find all the instructions, which is really, really nice. It looks like they are also corresponding app for Android and Apple. And this metronome looks pretty good on a phone as well. So it's portable, and you can use it on the go. Okay, the next metronome I want to talk about, the next in list, which is the one from Musicca, online metronome, which looks very simple.

And what's the interesting feature about this metronome is that you can play a bar and mute the next one. So if you have a four quarter time signature piece, and you want to practice, you can start the metronome with this option turned on. And it's going to give you the metronome for one bar and off for the next one, and then on again for the next one, and then off again, which is, in my opinion, very helpful for practice. So you can see how it works.

Yeah, I would really recommend this metronome. This is really, really nice. And it looks good on a phone as well, which is very important.

Okay, so the next interesting metronome in list is this one by FluteTunes.

And I like this because even though it looks a little bit, you know, old style, the designer website, and you have big ads around, it has this kind of different user interface that may be interesting from an academic standpoint. So you can see exactly the beats numbered this way. And you can of course remove the stress of the beat. But what is most interesting is just the UI. And it looks okay on iPhone, even though it doesn't look like being really optimized for a phone use, but it works.

And another metronome which is interesting to me is this one by Violin Inspiration, which has a different kind of user interface, which I like. It's clean, it's colorful, and you can see how it works.

The beats are shown around this circle in the center.

And if you change the beats, those change as well, which may be useful for, you know, children or other beginners to understand how bar beats are defined inside the bar.

And as before, you can change the tempo here, and you can have additional settings, such as subdivisions, as I showed before, which may be very useful. And you can see the UI here changes accordingly. So you can see exactly where the subdivisions go between the beats.

This is really interesting. You have very complex rhythms here.

Of course, fast doesn't make much sense, but probably for slower tempos may be useful. And it looks pretty good on a phone as well.

So you can definitely use it. All right. So the last metronome I want to talk about today is our own metronome, which is reachable on virtualsheetmusic.com slash metronome.

And it was designed with several options.

You can end it looks like a real, you know, physical old style metronome. And there are instructions given so you can start the metronome here. And it also sounds like a real old metronome. You can slide the slider here. You have the beats per minute here, which actually you can change as you like by entering actually a number. If you want to have 120, you do enter it. And it gives you also the option to start from the tempo word instead of the beats, which is also another interesting feature.

So if I have a large ghetto, you can define that and have the corresponding beats per minute. And you can also have a loose metronome is called, which gives you any kind of tempo, which is outside the regular metronome. So it shows you that it's not a real metronome. It's not a real metronome, but that may be useful for, you know, if you want to fine tune your tempo for any reason, you can do it. And of course, you also have a flash mode, which is useful if you don't want to hear the beat and but you want to just see, you know, the beats in a visual way. So you can mute the sound, put the flash mode on screen, and you can see how it works. Just the entire screen flashes, which is very useful. And also have, yeah, you can actually switch between the button, the button flashing or the screen.

Of course, you can also have both. You can have you can have the sound metronome and the screen flashing.

If you really want to get crazy, but and also you can change the sounds if you want a real percussion or electronic.

I like the real one. And of course, this metronome also has the tempo tapper so you can define your tempo. It works very well.

And also what is very interesting about this metronome is the accent options you may have. So you still can have oh, let's do the regular metronome. You can have, you know, the accent every, you know, two, three, four beats or whatever. But you can also have a cycle.

So if you have a cycle, you can decide arbitrarily how you want your beats to be. So you can have, you know, 12 beats and have an accent every, I don't know, every four, two, three, four, something like that. And maybe useful for if you have, you know, a piece of music with, I don't know, strange time signatures such as five fourths, for example, you can you can have the third and the fifth beat stressed.

And let me see, you should put in five. You can have something like this.

You see what I mean? That may be useful for some repertoire. So this is very, very interesting metronome. We have worked a lot on this a few years back. You have also a lot of instructions and glossary, a brief history of the metronome, which may be interesting.

And of course, if you have any questions or comments, post them below.

And of course, it looks very well inside a phone, so you can really use it well like an application.

So no problems with that.

Well, all right. So what do you think? Do you have any better online metronome you want to share with us? If so, please post it in the comments below.

And if you have any questions or ideas or thoughts, please send them by email to tips and insights at virtual sheet music dot com. I'll be happy to get in touch with you. So I'll see you in the next one.

Thank you.

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