Cue The Click

the metronome that speeds up
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A cycle plays its bars in order, then repeats. Each bar keeps its own time signature, accents and subdivision.

What you're hearing

Training tools

Tempo ramp

Speeds up toward a target tempo: a few BPM every few bars, always on a downbeat.
The tempo lifts on a downbeat, never mid-bar, so a run is never yanked forward halfway through. +2 every 8 bars is where the real accuracy work happens; the default is set for a warm-up. Changing any field here switches the ramp on. In a cycle of bars it counts whole cycles by default, so it only speeds up when the cycle starts again.
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Inner clock

Drops the click for whole bars or at random, so you find out whether your time drifts.
The pendulum fades out with the sound, so there's no reference to lean on. When the click returns, it tells you whether you drifted. This is the hardest and most useful thing here. Changing any field switches it on.
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Practice timer

Plays for a set time, then stops at the end of a bar (or cycle).
Only playing time counts, so stopping to fix something doesn't use it up: press Start and it carries on. When the time is up it finishes the bar you're in (with several bars, the cycle) and lands on the next downbeat, never cutting a phrase. Changing the minutes switches it on.
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Pitch pipe

Gives the starting note, or holds it as a drone while you play.
Tap a note to hear it for two seconds, like blowing a pitch pipe; with Major or Minor you also get the chord, one note at a time and then together. The Drone switch holds it until you switch it off, and the metronome can run with it; on a phone or tablet, a drone on its own stops when you leave the page. The note, octave and chord are saved in presets and share links, so each song starts on its own pitch. Phone speakers barely play low notes: the Pipe sound has the overtones that make them audible.
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Quick starts

Your presets

In Western music 9/8 is usually compound triple: three dotted-quarter beats a bar, each divided into three eighths. It’s a meter of three beats in which every beat is already a triplet, so you count “1 & a 2 & a 3 & a” rather than one to nine. Irish slip jigs are in 9/8 (“The Butterfly” is one of the best known), and so is Debussy’s “Clair de lune”. The difference from 3/4 is inside the beat: in 3/4 each beat splits in two, in 9/8 it splits in three.

The tempo here counts the three big beats, ♩. = 80, with soft eighths between them, so you feel the pulse without counting nine. To hear only the beats, open The bar and set to Beats; Sixteenths splits each beat into six. Swing isn’t offered in 9/8: a compound beat already divides in three. Switch on the and , and it counts the three beats, not nine. Then take the click away for a bar with the and check that the three beats stay even. Looking for the Turkish and Balkan 9/8, counted 2+2+2+3? That’s on the 9/8 aksak page.

Em português

Settings

The click

Pick the click voice and its volume, and how else the beat reaches you: a screen flash or a vibration.
In a loud room (a band, a choir), try Loud and clear: it is made to carry over voices. Each sound has a separate accent, beat and subdivision voice, so accents cut through whichever beats you put them on. Your choice stays put: no quick start and no reset will change it. The flash is capped at three a second. Vibrate is silent, for shared rooms. Single-key shortcuts (T, 1–9) can be turned off if they get in the way of a screen reader or voice control. With Foot pedal on, a Bluetooth page-turner pedal (set to Page Up/Down or the arrow keys) starts and stops with the right pedal and loads your next preset with the left one. While it's on, those keys belong to the pedal.

Drums

A synth kit that plays under the click, following your meter.
A groove plays under the click, not instead of it, so the click stays your reference. The pattern follows your meter: 3/4 lilts and 6/8 rolls.

The bar

Time signature (also on the display: tap it), subdivision and swing, for one bar or a cycle of up to four. Accents live on the display: tap a beat.
Add bars to build a cycle (up to four), such as 6/8 then 3/4, or a two-bar clave: each bar keeps its own meter, accents and subdivision, and the count-in plays bar 1. Tap a beat on the display to change its weight. Each tap makes it one step quieter: accent → normal → soft → silent, then back to accent. In 5/8, 7/8, 8/8, 9/8 aksak, 10/8, 11/8, 5/4 and 7/4, Grouping chooses how the beats fall (2+2+3, 3+2+2…): the accents and the lights follow, and you can still tap any beat after. Swing needs an even division, so it's off on triplets and in compound time.
Bars in the cycle
Editing
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Space start / stop   ↑↓ ±1 bpm   Shift+↑↓ ±5 bpm   click the tempo to type one   Ctrl+Z undo   T tap tempo   1–9 load a preset

A metronome that speeds up as you play

Cue The Click is a free practice metronome built around one idea most metronomes miss: getting faster on purpose. Set a starting tempo, a target, and a step, and it lifts the tempo for you, a few BPM every few bars. It always moves on a downbeat, never mid-bar, so a run is never yanked forward halfway through. It’s the tempo ramp a lot of players build by hand, done automatically.

Train your inner clock

The hardest and most useful mode drops the click entirely, for whole bars or at random, and fades the pendulum with it, so there’s nothing to lean on. When the click comes back, you find out whether you drifted. It’s the closest a metronome gets to testing the time you actually keep, not the time you copy.

Correct meters, real accents

Compound time is handled properly: 6/8 is two dotted-quarter beats, not six, and the tempo is quoted in the beat’s true note value. Tap any beat to make it accented, soft or silent, so in 5/8 or 7/8 you choose which beat carries the weight. Swing is offered only where it’s defined (even subdivisions), with named ratios, and a small synth drum kit can play under the click to make practice less clinical.

Odd and mixed meters

Odd and mixed meters get their own practice: build a cycle of up to four bars, each with its own time signature and accents, such as 6/8 then 3/4, or a two-bar clave. The eighth note stays steady between bars the way a score reads, or you can keep the beat steady instead.

Cycles of bars

Add a bar under the beats, tap its time signature to change it, and tap its beats to set the accents. The tempo ramp and the inner clock can count bars or whole cycles.

Practice pages

Cue The Click em português

Private by default

Your settings and presets stay in this browser, on this device, unless you share a link to them. To know how many people practice with it, the site counts visits anonymously with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and doesn’t follow you to other sites.

Ideas and bugs

Missing something, or found a bug? Write to suggestions@cuetheclick.app. That’s where the next features come from.

Free, no sign-up, works offline

It runs in the browser and installs to your phone’s home screen as an app. No account, no ads, no download from a store, and once loaded it works with no signal: on a train, in a basement practice room, backstage. Just open it and play.

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Version 1.17.6

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