Beginner guitar: consequences of skipping metronome

Conclusion: Unless born with perfect rhythm, your timing will deteriorate, making correction painful later. When I started guitar, I always played by feel. As a fingerstyle player, I'd get lost in melodies, thinking I sounded great. But as pieces got harder, I noticed differences. Good players had steady rhythm you could groove to. My recordings? Embarrassingly inconsistent - sometimes fast, sometimes slow, pure torture to hear. Then I heard: 'Practicing without metronome is just playing, not practicing.' It hit me - I'd wasted time self-indulging instead of proper training. Trying to reintroduce metronome later was hard without gradual adaptation. Learn from my mistake - build rhythm sense early to save future trouble. To solve this, I developed a web metronome with: - Multiple rhythm patterns - Custom rhythm programming - Adjustable volume (many online metronomes are too quiet - mine goes loud enough) Now when practicing different genres, I use appropriate rhythm patterns. For complex passages, I program them in first to hear correct timing before playing. This free web metronome is now live. If it helps you, give it a try! I welcome suggestions to improve it - as a new product, I want to incorporate user feedback.