Levels · Tesla Light Show
by Avicii
That synth hook is practically written for headlights. The melody chases across the front of the car phrase by phrase, and the drop blooms the entire body on the one. Avicii built the track on a chopped Etta James vocal, and the show treats that sample the way the record does, as the thing everything else answers to. It opens at its widest and then gives the later sections air, so the first minute is the one that stops people mid-sentence. Cues land as separate moments rather than a blur, which is why it reads cleanly from a distance.
How this one is choreographed
The choreography is deliberately unhurried: the lights re-fire about 0.6 times a second, so cues land as separate moments rather than a blur. It opens at full strength, about 37% of the car lit in the first third, then thins out and lets the later sections breathe. The fullest ten seconds arrive late, starting at 2:39 with about 43% of the car lit, so keep the camera rolling to the end. Most of the work falls on the tail lights, re-firing about 0.7 times a second, with the signature light bar and daytime running lights answering back at 0.7. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 48% front to 52% rear, so it plays from either end, or side-on from the curb. The quietest part of the car is the inner main beams, at about 0.3 re-fires a second. It runs 3:22 and averages 76 of 255 across the light channels, a mid-brightness show, with real headroom kept in reserve for the peaks. About 17% of the light values sit at a partial level, so hits are punctuated by fades rather than being pure on and off. The longest full blackout lasts 1.1 seconds, at 3:17, and that pause is what makes the next hit land.
Measured from the exported light sequence for this show, not estimated from the song.
Get it for your Tesla
This show downloads for every Tesla: Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, and Cybertruck. Preview it on your model with the View-on picker above, add it to your library, and it re-tailors to your car's lights automatically.
How to play it on your car
- Open the show above and add it to your library (remix it in the builder first if you want).
- Add your own copy of the song: an MP3/WAV you own. We distribute only the light pattern, never audio.
- Export the
.fseqbuilt for your model, then place your song next to it (or let the one-click USB writer do both). - Put both files in a
LightShowfolder on a USB drive. Or skip the manual steps: in Chrome/Edge, click 🔌 Write it to my USB drive for me right after exporting and we do it all, verified byte-for-byte. Then plug in and start it from Toybox → Light Show. Full walkthrough in the setup guide.
Car says Light Show instead of Custom Light Show, or the drive is not detected at all? That is the USB format, the folder name, or filenames that do not match. If it plays but drifts out of time, that is the audio sample rate. Fix both here.
