Countdown · Tesla Light Show
by Beyoncé
Beyoncé counts down from ten over a horn line and a marching snare, which makes this 2011 single about as literal as a New Year's Eve song gets. The show is relentless: the signature bar re-fires about twice a second with the front turn signals close behind, and it holds one level from start to finish rather than climbing. It runs bright, near the top of the catalog, for three minutes thirty-three. Time it so the count lands on midnight and the car does the announcing for you while everyone else is looking for their glass.
How this one is choreographed
This is one of the fastest shows in the library: the lights re-fire about 1.6 times a second and rarely sit still. It holds a level: right around 39% of the car stays lit from start to finish, with no single section stealing the show. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 1:45, when about 47% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the signature light bar and daytime running lights, re-firing about 2.0 times a second, with the front turn signals answering back at 1.8. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 54% front to 46% 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 0.8 re-fires a second. It runs 3:33 and averages 89 of 255 across the light channels, a bright show that stays close to full through its busiest passages. About 17% of the light values sit at a partial level, so hits are punctuated by fades rather than being pure on and off. It never goes completely dark for long: the longest gap is 0.3 of a second, just before the close.
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.
