Free Practice Tools

Precision instruments,
built by Edinburgh musicians

A professional guitar tuner and metronome, designed and built in-house by Morningside School of Music, Edinburgh. Free for every musician, whether or not you study with us.

Open the Tuner Open the Metronome

Free tool

Guitar Tuner

Precision tuning by microphone or by ear

A studio-grade chromatic tuner that listens through your device's microphone and analyses pitch entirely on your own screen. Twenty-two tunings, custom tunings, A4 calibration and reference tones for every string.

Real-time microphone pitch detection, accurate to a fraction of a cent
Standard, Drop D, DADGAD, Open tunings, 7 and 8-string, custom tunings
Precision strobe display alongside the classic needle gauge
A4 calibration, capo support, and a full reference-tone library

Open Guitar Tuner

Free tool

Metronome

Rock-solid timing, built on the audio clock

A metronome scheduled on the Web Audio clock rather than the browser's visual frame rate, so the pulse never drifts or stutters, even while the page is busy rendering. Built for real practice, not just keeping a beat.

20 to 300 BPM, tap tempo, and every common time signature
Custom meters, subdivisions, and a per-beat accent editor
Tempo trainer and gap-click training for real internal timing
Count-in, practice timer, four click sounds, and saved presets

Open Metronome

Built the right way

Real instruments, not a novelty

Processed on your device

Microphone audio is analysed locally in your browser. Nothing is ever recorded, uploaded, or sent to us.

No account, no download

Both tools run instantly in any modern browser, on desktop or mobile. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.

Engineered, not decorated

A genuine YIN pitch-detection algorithm and a Web Audio lookahead scheduler power these tools, not a novelty widget.

More practice tools are on the way

A piano note reference, an ear trainer and a scale library are next in the Morningside Practice Tools family.

Learn With a Real Teacher

A tuner and a metronome can only take you so far

One-to-one lessons with a professional Morningside tutor, in Edinburgh or online, will get you there faster.

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Precision instruments, built by Edinburgh musicians