About SixtyBPM
SixtyBPM is a free browser metronome and a set of practice guides. I built it so students can hear a reliable click without installing another app, and so the first tempo they see is 60 BPM — one beat per second — instead of a race.
Who I am
I am Gabriel Serwas, a musician in Würselen, Germany. I maintain sixtybpm.eu myself: the Web Audio metronome, the guides, the imprint and the privacy text. There is no editorial team and no content mill. If a page is wrong, the correction comes to post@sixtybpm.eu.
The site exists because metronome apps keep adding skins and subscriptions while the same lesson problem remains: people practise too fast, too soon, and cannot name which beat failed. The guides on this site are the lessons I would give before I handed someone a click.
What the metronome does
The click is scheduled in your browser with the Web Audio API. Settings stay on the device. There is no account. Time signatures, beat units, tap tempo and three sounds (Click, Bell, Woodblock) are there because they change how you practise, not because a feature list needed padding.
Open it on the home page. How to set it for a first session is in the beginner metronome guide.
How the guides are written
Each article is meant to be used with this metronome in the same sitting. I name pass criteria (usually three clean repetitions), tempo steps (5 BPM), and the actual pickers on this site — including the limits, such as no dotted-quarter beat unit. I would rather describe the tool honestly than publish a generic “how to use a metronome” essay that could sit on any domain.
Recommendations come from ordinary teaching practice (slow to fast, isolate the failing bar, count before you play) and from motor-learning ideas that are widely taught: accuracy before speed, small chunks, attention at low tempo. Where I mention researchers or teachers, it is as orientation, not as a claim that this site is a journal.
The full list is on Practice guides. Current titles:
- Metronome guide for beginners
- 30-day metronome practice plan
- Why slow practice works
- Metronome practice for guitar
- Metronome practice for piano
- How to practice odd time signatures with a metronome
- Time signatures and beat units on SixtyBPM
- Subdivision practice at 60 BPM
- How to stop rushing and dragging
Contact and legal
Email, postal address and what to put in a message: Contact. Required German provider information: Imprint. How the site processes data: Privacy policy.