Rhythm and Meter

Two tools, in the order you'd use them. Read and follow puts a rhythm on a staff and plays it at whatever tempo you set, with the beat moving through the notes as you hear it — five levels, starting at quarters and eighths and working up through rests, halves and wholes, sixteenths, and finally triplets and sixteenths beamed against eighths.

Then tap it back turns it around. Choose which note values are in play, a meter from 2/4 to 4/4, and one or two bars; you get a random rhythm on a one-line percussion staff, a count-in, and then you tap it — space bar or the tap pad — and every note is marked right or wrong against where it should have landed.

Reading and following is free and needs no account. Tapping back is the one part of this page that asks you to sign in, because it grades you and saves the result.

Compound meters count the way musicians count them, not the way arithmetic would: 6/8 is two dotted-quarter beats, not six eighths. That's the same rule the metronome and the compose studio use, which is why they can all play together.