Music Sheets

**Music Sheets** are collectible items that simplify playing music on an Instrument, by allowing you to play along to a song, like a rhythm mini-game. Multiple people can play a Music Sheet together, each playing a different part according to their selected Instrument. A Music Sheet Challenge rewards Pieces of Light based on your ability to play a featured Music Sheet.

Each Music Sheet has a pre-assigned music key. Your Instrument will automatically change key to match any selected Music Sheet (overriding the music key associated with a given Realm).

**Most Music Sheet videos showcased in the **Music Sheet menu** section are from Ray’s Ikejiji Sky music channel. We thank them for giving us permission to share their useful music guides.**

(The letter prefixes indicate where the Music Sheets are acquired from: HH for Harmony Hall, and E for event.)

## Purchasing Music Sheets

Most Music Sheets are purchased from Spirits, and occasionally from event Guides, similarly to cosmetics. However, unlike cosmetics, there is no Outfit Shrine where you select an active Music Sheet. Instead, Music Sheets are only visible after you have equipped an Instrument. A Music Sheet icon is then visible in the upper right corner; clicking on it takes you to the Music Sheet menu, where all possible Music Sheets are listed. Only those you have purchased can be selected; the others are all dimmed out. An orbiting circle around a Music Sheet means it is currently being played.

You are able to purchase Music Sheets even if you have not purchased any Instruments. However, the only way to use Music Sheets in that case is by using one of the demonstration Instruments in Harmony Hall.

One source of confusion with Music Sheets can be the "new item" red dot that encourages you to equip any newly purchased item. In the case of Music Sheets, the red dot will not appear until you have equipped an Instrument. However, unless you select the new Music Sheet, the red dot remains present on top of your wing icon even after you unequip the Instrument. Without an Instrument, there is no way to get rid of the red icon -- opening the Expression menu shows no follow-up action. The only way to clear the red dot is to equip an Instrument, select it in the Expression menu (where there is now a red dot over that icon), open the Music Sheet menu, and finally select the new Music Sheet(s).

## Playing Music Sheets

When a Music Sheet is selected, multiple cues are provided to tell you which notes to play and give you feedback on how well you are performing. The system has been evolving based on user feedback; this description is based on Patch 0.17.5 (191024).

Note that often when you first equip a Music Sheet nothing seems to happen: you are just shown the standard grid of notes. This happens whenever your current Instrument's part is silent; it is more common when secondary Instruments (wind, bass) are equipped. When this happens, you need to wait for the background music (and/or other Instrument parts) to play and reach the point where your Instrument is supposed to join in.

Upcoming notes are highlighted by enlarging the standard note icon and adding a superimposed square. These cues first appear five seconds before you are supposed to play a given note. The superimposed square is small initially, but grows in size as the note's time approaches. Especially during fast-paced music, there will end up being multiple squares of varying sizes on the screen, which are the upcoming notes in order from largest to smallest -- although processing the details of all the square sizes in real time is impossible.

To help you focus on the immediate next note, there is an additional layer of bright white cues. First, the expanding square on the next note is changed to bright white. Second, a fixed-size off-white large square is added around the outside of that note's icon: the exact moment when you are supposed to click the note happens when the bright white square grows to the size of the outside square. Third, curving arcs acting as the track for a bouncing white star connect the current note to the previous and next note. The star reaches the exact center of the note at the moment when you are supposed to click on it.

Whenever you play a note, its icon spins. If you played the correct note at the correct time, the icon's background lights up (turns gray) with a shimmering star. Also, the accuracy meter (the blue dial at the bottom left of the screen) will fill, with the filled amount depending on the accuracy and the number of notes in the Sheet. If you miss a note or play the wrong note, the accuracy meter will stay the same. The pulsing line around the accuracy dial serves as a progress meter, indicating the percentage of time passed in terms of total duration of the Sheet.

The accompanying screenshot demonstrates all of these features. In order, the notes that are supposed to be played during this fast-paced section are:

* Note 7 (B4): gray square with star indicates it was played correctly, about 1 second ago. The purple diamond shows that another person also played this note (in this case, the Mellow Musician).
* Note 8 (C5): icon in mid-spin, indicating it was just played (about 0.5 seconds ago), but it was not played at the right time.
* Note 9 (D5): bright white square at maximum size and bouncing star almost at center: this note needs to be played very soon.
* Note 10 (E5): large square connected by arc: next note to play
* Ever-smaller squares indicate subsequent notes will be: 12 (G5), 5 (G4), 5 (G4), 6 (A4), 1 (C4)

At the moment of this screenshot, the progress meter is only about 10% filled, because this is very early in the Music Sheet.

The bouncing star tends to be the primary cue you focus on while playing a Music Sheet. However, the bouncing star is bad at notifying you when there are double notes -- times when the same note is played twice (or more) in succession. To catch double notes, you need to also pay attention to the squares over each note, and notice whether there are multiple squares, especially if the squares are very close in size. (Larger gaps between the squares often mean there is an intervening note).

## Music Sheet Parts

Each Music Sheet represents a song which can be played by multiple Instruments simultaneously. The different Instruments will play different parts of the song. This means that depending upon the Instrument you are playing, you the notes you are told to play will be different. This table shows which part is played by each Instrument.

Part Played by Instrument
 Bass

## Music Sheet Menu

The Music Sheet menu displays all the possible Music Sheets. Many of the Music Sheets share the same basic icon, but a superimposed symbol allows each Sheet to be uniquely identified. The symbol identifies the Sheet's source:

* Music Sheets without any extra symbol are provided by Regular Spirits.
* Any Music Sheet added by a Season is displayed with its Seasonal symbol.
* Sheets available from Harmony Hall are displayed with a star symbol; an "HH" prefix is used in the ID for these Sheets.
* Sheets introduced during Holiday Events are displayed with a unique symbol representing the event, such as an icon of the Winter Feast Snowglobe for Days of Feast. An "E" prefix is used in the ID for these Sheets.

Note: The performers on the videos are those of Youtube, not the contributors uploading them. Most Music Sheet videos showcased in the Music Sheet menu section are from Ray’s Ikejiji Sky music channel.

Availability Legend

## Featured Music Sheet

Each week a set of three specific parts of different Music Sheets is featured in Harmony Hall. Each Music Sheet part is used for one of the music performances in the Hall: Music Challenge, Song Demonstration, and Jam Session. The featured Music Sheets change at reset 11:59 pm Sunday night; each set of sheets is featured from Monday to Sunday. Currently only 5 possible sets of Music Sheet parts can be featured, in rotation.
In the tables below, the currently featured Music Sheet parts is labelled in the "ID" column.

Current Music Challenge Sheet Part Rotations

Current Song Demonstration Sheet Part Rotations

## Notes

* In Patch 0.15.5, the display order of the first five Music Sheets changed so that all Music Sheets would be shown "in the order they were released, starting with [those] from the level constellations." Previously Music Sheets 4 and 5, originally introduced during the Winter Season of Sky: Light Awaits, were displayed first.

1. ↑ The icon for Music Sheet E2 was added to the menu during patch 0.17.5 (191024), but the corresponding Music Sheet was not available in game until Sky Anniversary 2022.
2. ↑ Due to a bug in patch 0.21.5, Song Demonstration is unavailable before 0.24.0
3. ↑ The Instrument used is a unreleased variant of the Prophecy Drum, which can be seen on the Instrument display
4. ↑ The Instrument used is a unreleased variant of the Bugle, which can be seen on the Instrument display