How it works
A 10/8 time signature metronome counts the eighth note, ten to a bar. This one marks beat one and leaves the other nine even, because the signature alone does not say how the ten are grouped.
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Start
Tap the pad, or press Space. The first click of every ten is higher and its dot larger; the nine after it are alike. Tap again to stop.
Change the tempo
Tap the number under the pad and type the eighth-note tempo, which is twice a quarter-note mark, or use minus and plus. It takes whole tempos, 1 to 1000.
Questions and answers
How is 10/8 grouped?
Ten eighth notes can be stressed 3+3+2+2, 3+2+2+3, 2+3+2+3 or as five twos. Open Music Theory says the groups of such a bar usually show in how its notes are beamed, or in a signature written as a sum. Count yours against the even clicks.
Where is 10/8 time found in music?
Ottoman classical music, for one. Wikipedia's Saz semai article describes an instrumental form, typically four movements each followed by a refrain, on a rhythmic cycle called aksak semai: the refrain and the first three movements are usually in 10/8, the fourth usually in another bar.
Is there an Arabic rhythm in 10/8?
Two are listed on MaqamWorld, a reference site for Arabic music. It calls sama'i thaqil very popular in the muwashah vocal genre and the principal rhythm of the instrumental sama'i, and jurjina widely used in Iraq and Iran and in Turkish and Kurdish music.
Is 10/8 just 5/4 in eighth notes?
Only in length: ten eighth notes last as long as five quarter notes. A bar of 5/4 has five quarter-note beats, and the 5/4 page clicks five times a bar, three then two. This page clicks all ten eighth notes and stresses only the first.
Why can't I hear the metronome?
On a phone, look at the ring switch, then the volume, then whether Bluetooth headphones are connected. The pad needs no sound to be followed: ten dots light one after another, and the first is the large one.