How it works
A clap metronome marks the beat with a hand clap where others click. This one opens at 100 beats a minute, every clap alike, no bar marked. Nothing is recorded: your browser makes each clap from a burst of noise.
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Start
Tap the pad, or press Space, and the claps begin at 100. Tap again and they stop.
Change the tempo
Tap the number under the pad and type any whole tempo from 1 to 1000, or press minus and plus. Up to 240 each clap sounds for its full tenth of a second; faster than that it is trimmed so that two never overlap.
Questions and answers
Is there an online metronome with a clap?
This one. It opens set to the clap, so there is no sound to choose first: tap the pad and a metronome clap starts at 100, or at whatever tempo you type.
How is the metronome clapping sound made?
From noise, with no hands recorded. Each clap is a burst of random noise sent through a band-pass filter centred on 1,100 hertz. It swells in two thousandths of a second and fades within a tenth: twice the length of this site's plain click.
Can I swap the hand clap for another sound?
Not on this page. The metronome sounds page has nine others to pick from, a cowbell, a wood block and a shaker among them, and the drum metronome plays kick, snare and hi-hat. The clap is on neither of them.
Which kinds of music keep time with a hand clap?
Wikipedia's Clapping article describes clapping in rhythm as body percussion, used in many kinds of music. In flamenco, the article goes on, it is called palmas and often sets the rhythm; a sampled or synthesised clap is a staple of electronic and pop music.
Why can't I hear the metronome?
A clap that never comes usually means the phone: its ring switch, the volume, or Bluetooth headphones playing it somewhere else. The pad shows the beat either way, two dots trading places a hundred times a minute.