Stroke frequently damages the brain pathways responsible for planning and carrying out movement, leaving many survivors with weakness, poorly coordinated lower limb movements that make standing, walking and turning difficult. Pacing a patient's steps to an external sound, generally called rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS), is a promising add-on to ordinary physiotherapy, but it remains unclear how much of the benefit comes from the steady beat itself rather than from listening to sound during exercise in general. This experimental study compared a rhythm-based auditory cueing programme with a non-rhythmic (ambient) auditory programme, using identical balance and gait exercises, in patients recovering from stroke. Twenty-two sub-acute and chronic stroke patients aged 40-70 years were selected by purposive sampling and divided into two equal groups. Group A practiced balance and gait exercises paced to metronome beats matched to their own walking cadence; Group B performed the same exercises while listening to ambient music with no fixed beat. Both groups additionally received conventional physiotherapy, three sessions a week for four weeks. Lower-limb motor control, dynamic balance and walking speed were assessed by using Fugl-Meyer Assessment (Lower Extremity), the Dynamic Gait Index and the Ten-Meter Walk Test. Both groups improved significantly on all measures (p<0.001), but gains were consistently larger in the rhythm-cued group, particularly in voluntary motor control, coordination/speed, dynamic balance and walking speed (p<0.05 to p<0.001); reflex-related scores changed little in either group. These findings indicate that pairing balance and gait training with a steady auditory beat produces greater improvement in lower-limb motor control and functional mobility than the same training paired with non-rhythmic sound, supporting rhythmic auditory stimulation as a simple, cost effective addition to stroke rehabilitation.