How it works
A 6/8 metronome can count eighth notes or beats. This one counts the dotted quarter note, the beat that is felt: two a bar, each with two lighter ticks after it. At 60 that is 180 eighth notes a minute.
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Start
Tap the pad, or press Space. The highest click is beat one and the next loud one is beat two. Tap again to stop.
Change the tempo
Tap the number under the pad and type the dotted-quarter tempo, or step it with minus and plus. Any whole tempo from 1 to 333 plays.
Questions and answers
How do you set a metronome to 6/8 time?
This one is already set. Type the score's number under the pad: 64, 66, 70, 80, 100, 120 and 144 all play, not only 60. If the mark shows an eighth note, not a dotted quarter, divide by three: 120 becomes 40, 144 becomes 48.
Is 6/8 counted in two or in six?
In two. Open Music Theory files 6/8 under compound duple: six eighth notes a bar, felt as two dotted-quarter beats and counted one la li, two la li. That makes this a compound meter metronome. Three beats of two eighth notes would be 3/4.
What does 6/8 at 60 BPM mean?
On this page, sixty dotted quarter notes a minute, the setting it opens on. Beethoven gave the 6/8 finale of his Sixth Symphony that mark in 1817; German Wikipedia's article on the symphony prints it in its table of movements.
What music is written in 6/8?
Wikipedia's table of the most used time signatures lists double jigs, tarantellas, marches, barcarolles and some rock music under 6/8.
Why can't I hear the metronome?
On a phone, check the ring switch, then the volume, then whether Bluetooth headphones have taken the sound. The dots on the pad keep time in silence, so the two beats can still be followed by eye.