God Bless the U.S.A. · Tesla Light Show
by Lee Greenwood
A slow build with a real destination, and the choreography treats it as one: it genuinely builds, finishing wider than it opens, so the final chorus is the fullest the car gets. This one is rear-led, tail lights with the brake light behind them, which is unusual in the catalog and keeps the whole thing solemn rather than showy. The cues are spaced widely, it is one of the darker runs here, and it lasts a little over three minutes. For the fourth of July, and for the quiet part of the evening rather than the fireworks.
How this one is choreographed
The choreography is deliberately unhurried: the lights re-fire about 0.5 times a second, so cues land as separate moments rather than a blur. It builds. The car runs about 26% of its lights through the opening third and finishes near 35%, so the biggest picture is the one you end on. The fullest ten seconds arrive late, starting at 2:47 with about 39% 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 brake light answering back at 0.6. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 46% front to 54% rear, so it plays from either end, or side-on from the curb. The quietest part of the car is the side markers, at about 0.4 re-fires a second. It runs 3:12 and averages 64 of 255 across the light channels, a darker show that spends most of its time well below full, so the hits carry further. About 16% 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 1.8 seconds, at 0:06, 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.
