Beat tracking is a spontaneous bodily synchronization behavior when humans listen to music. This study employed a sensory synchronization task to explore the effects of pitch cues and metre types on beat tracking in music. The results revealed that (1) pitch cues enhanced the accuracy of beat tracking, (2) music with 2/4 metre obtained better tracking than 3/4, (3) the tap timing always preceded the actual musical beat. Our results not only uncovered how pitch and temporal dimensions in music influence beat perception, but also confirmed a universal prediction mechanism of beat perception, providing empirical evidence for dynamic attention theory and the prediction theory of rhythm perception.